Returning to Work or School
Whether your baby is 6 weeks or 6 months old—or older—you likely have many questions, concerns, and emotions related to returning to work or school. This may be especially true if you are breastfeeding, in which case you will probably be pumping when you are away from your baby. Please see our blog posts on pumping and bottle feeding for tips on those topics.
Here are some of our favorite resources related to return to work or school:
Pregnantatwork.org is a good resource for information on your legal rights and provides advice about how to talk to your boss about pumping.
Center for Worklife Law has a hotline you can contact if you have questions about your legal rights as working parent.
Milkworks.org has great advice about how to prepare for your return to work, tips on pumping at work, tips for caregivers, and more information.
If you are in the U.S. Coast Guard, you may find the Global Military Lactation Community’s website to be helpful.
Remember that we are just a phone call or text message away if you want to talk through this big transition in your life.
DISCLAIMER: We know when you surf the web for information, you can get conflicting results, and it’s not easy to know whether you are finding evidence-based, high quality recommendations. That’s part of our job here at Kodiak KINDNESS; we are here to support your informed decisions about infant feeding through your baby’s first year. We’ve done some background work, and to the best of our knowledge, this post reflects current best practices. However, the information contained in this post and any links contained herein is for your informational use only; it is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Furthermore, Kodiak KINDNESS is not responsible for the accuracy of any information contained in this post or links contained herein; it is for you to review at your own risk and discuss, as needed, with your health care professional in order to make a plan that suits your individual circumstances.