In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, which began Tuesday and continues through Monday, the North Central Breastfeeding Partnership is surveying Minot businesses to check if they have policies in place for breastfeeding employees.
“We’re asking does the company have a policy towards employees, and does the company have a clean and private place for expressing and storing milk, a place other than the bathroom? You wouldn’t want to eat in the bathroom, so you wouldn’t want to breastfeed or express milk in there, either,” said Laureen Klein, Lactation Educator at Trinity Health.
“If it is a department store with a lot of customers, we’re asking is there a place where a woman can feed her baby if she needs to?” Klein added.
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