She strongly recommended the following during the third Senate hearing: provide mothers with
longer paid maternity leave; establish crèches at workplaces; revive the national movement to promote breastfeeding with budget appropriations, conduct trainings of health workers to be able to support mothers to breastfeed beyond two years, implement strictly the national code, support researches on breastfeeding; and establish a child - to - child program to educate them at a young age on the advantages of breastfeeding.
I have said that before, but starting to petition Washington for
a longer paid maternity leave would help lots and lots of women with longer breastfeeding.
Just a thought - if you have that much free time, perhaps you can start a grassroots movement for
a longer paid maternity leave.
We have
the longest paid maternity leave in the world (16 months), and at least three of these months must be taken out by the dad.
It had simply never occurred to me that in countries without
the long paid maternity leaves common in Europe, pumping is the norm for those who want their babies to get a lot of breast milk — let alone to get exclusively breast milk.
To combat gender - based discrimination while retaining high - quality physicians, the researchers recommend that employers implement policies such as
longer paid maternity leaves, backup child care, lactation support, and schedule flexibility.
Not exact matches
Other countries (like here in Canada) have a
longer,
paid,
maternity leave, which is voluntary, and I don't know anyone who's been asked why they wouldn't come back to work earlier.
«Focusing on infant feeding support kits detracts from the real barriers to breastfeeding such as access to healthcare after
leaving the hospital, breastfeeding support in the workplace and
paid or
longer maternity leave,» said Mountford.
«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the
long term — like subsidized day care, better
maternity -
leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that
pay a living wage, for example.»
Whether you're practical, stylish, or going backpacking during your
maternity leave, taking a moment
longer to find the right bag will
pay dividends in the
long run.
«It was
long days, but it did
pay off in the end,» she says: The volunteer work led to contract work, and she later stepped in for a curator who went on
maternity leave.