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Stand up for Breastfeeding Moms!

Donnicia Venters, a new mom from Houston, lost her job in 2009 simply for letting her employer know that she was breastfeeding her infant and would need a place to pump milk while at work. Donnicia and all new mothers who can and want to breastfeed deserve our support!

Ask your members of Congress to co-sponsor the Breastfeeding Promotion Act today! The Breastfeeding Promotion Act would provide all mothers who want to breastfeed unpaid time and private, clean spaces to express milk at work. The bill would also protect breastfeeding women from being fired or discriminated against in the workplace.

Dear Member of Congress,

As a constituent and one of a million members of MomsRising.org, I am writing to request that you co-sponsor the Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2011 (H.R. 2758, S. 1463).

The Breastfeeding Promotion Act would increase breastfeeding in this country by giving all mothers who want to breastfeed unpaid time and private, clean spaces to express milk at work. The bill would also protect breastfeeding women from being fired or discriminated against in the workplace. If breastfeeding is made more accessible and acceptable in the workplace, more mothers are likely to provide such crucial nourishment to their children.

Thanks to new protections included in the Affordable Care Act, millions of hourly workers now have unpaid break time and a clean space for pumping at work. However, these new rules only cover about half of all women in the workforce.

Recent research estimates that the country could save approximately $2.2 billion in direct health care costs (and a total of $13 billion in savings overall) if 90% of women breastfed their babies exclusively for at least 6 months as medical experts advise. When children are provided the maximum health benefits as infants, they grow to be healthier children and later adults (lessening the burden of health related costs) and their parents are less likely to need to take time off from work to care for them (increasing their productivity, economic and otherwise, in their workplaces).

At a time when rising health costs are crippling families, business and government, we cannot afford to ignore this simple, common sense way to improve our nation's health and economy.

I hope I can count on your leadership on this important issue.

Sincerely,

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