Berkeley Great at Breast-feeding
Apparently the campus won an award.
Chron:
The California Breastfeeding Coalition is honoring more than 125 employers statewide today for helping women workers to breast-feed their babies, with UC Berkeley taking local honors.
Since 1998, UC Berkeley has created six lactation rooms on campus, with each room equipped with hospital-grade breast pumps available for use, and portable units sold at cost.
Together with the city, Bay Area Lactation Associates and the Alameda County Breastfeeding Coalition will give the university’s health services department an award at an afternoon ceremony.
California has a lactation accommodation law requiring employers to provide mothers unpaid breaks and the use of a clean, private area for mothers during work hours.
Ever so often I run across a news story about a mother somewhere being shamed or told to leave some business or public area for breast-feeding and usually the people doing the shaming end up getting in trouble (and rightly so).
It’s great to see Berkeley out in front creating a standard that everyone else can try to live up to.
Prior to seeing this post, I was just checking out the UHS website today & ran across this:
http://www.uhs.berkeley.edu/facstaff/healthmatters/breastfeeding.shtml
money quote:
“The campus has several lactation rooms on campus with hospital-grade electric breast pumps. You may use the hospital-grade pump in the room with either your attachments from the Ameda Purely Yours Electric Breast Pump® or a HygieniKit® Dual Pumping Kit.” sweet.
Comment by bp — August 24, 2005 @ 4:54 pm
Hey guys, check out this article:
Comment by Rio Lala — August 24, 2005 @ 4:59 pm
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0509.collegeguide.html
Comment by Rio Lala — August 24, 2005 @ 5:00 pm
Interesting points on that article. But look more closely at their criteria… They could use some serious tweaking, even if one agreed that those key areas should be the most weighted after all.
Comment by Josh — August 24, 2005 @ 5:51 pm
worthless post. nexT
Comment by smashT — August 25, 2005 @ 3:20 am
Breast in Show
I promised myself that I wouldn’t relate this story to the story about the possible end of the alcohol ban on the Cal-Berkeley campus. So I won’t. Andy at Calstuff noticed this latest accolade in the Chronicle: The Chronicle reported:…
Trackback by The Bay Area Is Talking — August 25, 2005 @ 12:24 pm
I work at Haas for the MBA program and a lot of times female students come in to use their crazy pump things.
One time we had like 6 lactating women at once and I let one of them into one of our breastfeeding rooms and she saw another woman’s pump. She got all excited and was like “Ooooh! We have the same pump!”
Comment by Brandy — August 26, 2005 @ 1:35 pm
“One time we had like 6 lactating women at once and I let one of them into one of our breastfeeding rooms and she saw another woman’s pump. She got all excited and was like “Ooooh! We have the same pump!””
m@n da fukin world is going down da drain. dis is da kind of shiT taT should be kept private. now its like a feminist liberation ting to breast feed all over teh place.
an important message: u don’t see me pissing in public, keep ur shiT in private as well.
“-smashT”
Comment by smashT — August 26, 2005 @ 3:36 pm
smashT obviously wasn’t breast-fed
Comment by Jason O. — August 26, 2005 @ 9:36 pm