The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) now recommends that mothers breastfeed for two years for optimal child and maternal health. If a breastfeeding mother doesn’t nurse throughout the day, her ...

Working moms in the U.S. are told to exclusively breastfeed for six months, but they’re only given 12 weeks of unpaid leave — if they’re lucky. What happens for the next 12 weeks or more?

Anja Slibar for The 19th Nursing parents still have no place to pump at work. Now they’re suing. Illustration showing concept of injustice for nursing parents; lady justice is depicted pumping milk, ...

Returning to work with a pump can feel like juggling a new job inside your job. Pumping at work is a chore, but you can do this–and it gets easier as you move forward. Yes, there are meetings to ...

Laura Curtis sits in a Maine courtroom, her breast pump whirring quietly beneath her blouse. The 39-year-old lawyer is back at work after giving birth to her second child. “It’s very convenient, which ...

A young mother claims her bosses at a New York City-area Amazon fulfillment center made it so unpleasant for her to milk at work, she felt she had no choice but to stop breastfeeding her infant twins ...

When Jasmine Emery wasn’t driving the #400/405 bus, she’d use her short breaks to gingerly attach her breast pump under her uniform and hope passengers wouldn’t barge in or hear its suctioning over ...

Nursing parents still have no place to pump at work. Now they’re suing. Illustration showing concept of injustice for nursing parents; lady justice is depicted pumping milk, holding scales in one hand ...

The PUMP Act expanded protections to 9 million workers who had been exempt from the original law and added the provision that allows workers to seek restitution.Some states, including California and ...