Every day there are more testimonies and initiatives to continue supporting and helping to normalize breastfeeding in public. However, in question it is spaces for breastfeeding mothers, there are still many places where areas are needed so that they can continue breastfeeding without interruptions or inconveniences.
Thanks to a new law passed by the US Senate, all large airports in the United States will have to have lactation rooms , as well as changing rooms in all bathrooms (yes, in men’s ones too).
The law was proposed by Senator Tammy Duckworth, who was the first senator in this legislature to have a baby and seeks to support families when traveling . His proposal was unanimously approved by the Senate, as part of a new law called the ” Friendly Airports for Mothers (FAM) Act “.
With this law, all large and medium airports are required to have lactation rooms, to ensure that mothers and babies have a clean, safe and pleasant space in which they can continue breastfeeding .
In an interview for CBS a few months ago, the senator spoke about the difficulties that nursing mothers could encounter when traveling:
” I was going to airports, and I had to use the public bathroom, and I thought that was unpleasant. You wouldn’t eat a sandwich there, what makes you think I should breastfeed my baby or express milk there? “
In addition to the creation of breastfeeding rooms at all airports, the new law also includes the mandatory installation of baby changing tables in all bathrooms, including men’s bathrooms , something that has been claimed on more than one occasion by parents who have had to figure out how to change their babies’ diapers, for lack of a suitable place to do so.
Congratulations to American families and mothers, hopefully this law is not limited solely to airports and that other countries will soon begin to replicate the idea and thus offer spaces that are friendly to families with babies and young children .
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Via | Babble
