Breastfeeding
Neither goat’s milk nor cow’s milk can adequately replace breast milk or infant formula. Children under one year of age need an approved infant formula if not breast fed. Premature infants will likely need supplementation with a specialized formula in addition to breast feeding.
Legal Resources
he FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. Eligible employees are entitled to:
Twelve workweeks of leave in a 12-month period for:
- the birth of a child and to care for the newborn child within one year of birth;
- the placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care and to care for the newly placed child within one year of placement;
- to care for the employee’s spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition;
- a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her job; any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military member on “covered active duty;” or
Twenty-six work weeks of leave during a single 12-month period to care for a covered servicemember with a serious injury or illness if the eligible employee is the servicemember’s spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin (military caregiver leave).
- Family and Medical Leave Act (website)
- FLSA Protections to Pump at Work (website)
Links & Resources
- More support needed for postpartum women as breastfeeding rates remain well below national goals (website)
- Beyond tongue-tie: How to manage breastfeeding issues when baby does not have ankyloglossia (website)
- Materials for providers including videos, PowerPoints, and outreach handouts. (website)
- Idaho Breastfeeding Coalition Newsletter - November 2024 (website)
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(website) - Clinical Report: Identification and Management of Ankyloglossia and its Effect on Breastfeeding in Infants (website)
- Breastfeeding: The Basics and Beyond Presentation - April 25, 2024 (pptx)
- The Idaho Breastfeeding Coalition Newsletter - February 2024 (website)
- Drinking while breastfeeding tied to cognitive problems in young kids (website)
- Breastfeeding could help a mother’s heart–in more ways than you think (website)
- Jessica Shortall TED Talk (website)
We need women to work, and we need working women to have babies. So why is America one of the only countries in the world that offers no national paid leave to new working mothers? In this incisive talk, Jessica Shortall makes the impassioned case that the reality of new working motherhood in America is both hidden and horrible: millions of women, every year, are forced back to work within just weeks of giving birth. Her idea worth spreading: the time has come for us to recognize the economic, physical and psychological costs of our approach to working mothers and their babies, and to secure our economic future by providing paid leave to all working parents.