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Article: A Place To Pump; Despite Law, Some Nursing Moms Still Find it Hard to Express Breast Milk at Work
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- The Washington Post
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- May 13, 2008
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For many new mothers returning to work, one accessory is
essential: the breast pump.
But the pump, used to express milk so a working woman's eight-or-
more-hour separation from her baby need not stop her from breast-
feeding, has a limitation: It's helpful only if there's a conducive
place to use it.
Washington area women have hooked up electric or manual versions
in parked cars, restrooms, a telephone booth and the basement
storage room of the National Zoo visitors center, where a box of
panda costumes doubled this spring as a table on which one woman set
her pump, bottles and other equipment.
Not perhaps what the D.C. Council had in mind when it passed a
law in December requiring ...