Breastfeeding in America is on the rise, and more women are breadwinners than ever before. At some point, you are likely to have a breastfeeding co-worker. Here’s how to be an MVP to a milk-making mom.  → Read More

When was the last time you talked to your boss about your breasts? Breastfeeding and working is no longer an exception for new mothers. It is no longer a valiant few women, secretly locked in closets with breast pumps: it’s the new reality of an America where women are all at once breadwinners and, for the first few months to few years of a baby’s life, milk-makers.  → Read More

Working motherhood has long involved a trade-off that is painful for many: breastfeed, or go back to work. Today, many working mothers have a third choice: go back to work and bring your breast pump with you.  → Read More

I’m a working mother of two small children, and I’ve breastfed them both. In fact, I’m currently somewhere in the middle of breastfeeding my second child, who has cut two teeth recently and knows how to use them, so we’ll see how much longer this continues. And it’s been interesting, being alive and mothering and breastfeeding during a time of historically high intrusion into women’s nutrition relationships with their babies. I’m not a breastfeeding crusader – quite the contrary, actually. I’ve found the whole situation to be exhausting and crazy and difficult.  → Read More

The crux of the problem is simply this—women have taken on a greater share of breadwinning while maintaining their responsibilities as primary caregivers. But breadwinning has not always come with greater access to health benefits, and too often, women’s health has been compromised as women try to combine work and family responsibilities.  → Read More