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Breastfeeding Costs Women Money?

6:30 pm, May 1st | by Amy Tennery


A new report shows that women who breastfeed after childbirth tend to see greater lost wages over time than women who use formula. Sorry, moms.

While the choice whether to breastfeed is one of those super-personal things you should (in theory) be able to decide on without outside input, a report published today by ABC News shows that many working women feel the pressure to put down the pump.

Study co-author Phyllis Rippeyoung explained that “if it’s not a supportive workplace and women choose to breastfeed for six months or longer, these women are more likely to leave their jobs if they have the means to do so.”

What constitutes a “supportive workplace” is anyone’s guess, but I’d imagine things like flexible work hours and not getting the side-eye every time you leave the room to go pump might be up there. Also, not having to hunker out in a bathroom stall several times a day. That sounds unpleasant.

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  • Flippingmackeral

    It was my understanding that thanks to “Obamacare” & many state laws, most employers are required to provide a space that is not a bathroom to pump milk for working mothers.

  • Anonymous

    Women need to work outside their homes so they can earn money to pay for their TVs and stuff that is burgled while no one is at home. And a second car, insurance, gas, work clothes, shoes, so on and so on.
    Besides, they have to work as they ran their a*****es (husbands) off. Can you blame them? If I could I’d divorce me, if it wasn’t for the kids.

  • http://lollipopmamma.blogspot.com/2012/04/tale-of-two-titties.html lollipopmamma

    I am a BF-ing mom who just wrote a blog post about something quite similar! Although, sadly I did not know the lost wages statistic! http://lollipopmamma.blogspot.com/2012/04/tale-of-two-titties.html

  • Anonymous
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