After delivery, and when breastfeeding begins, a stage begins when the mother enjoys her maternity permission While feeding. The breastfed baby thus becomes a being who depends not only on the care of his mother (and his father), but also on the food she produces: breastmilk.
The problem is that maternity leave ends after 16 weeks, but the recommendation is that they be exclusively breastfed for 6 months, and then with complementary feeding for at least two years. This means that there is a so-called "breastfeeding permit" in Spain and certain regulations that regulate the risks to the baby, depending on the work of the mother.
How to know when, how and in what situations apply? Well, among other things, thanks to the recent publication of the 'Legal Lactation Guide'.
Everything the law says about breastfeeding
There are many guides and recommendations that talk about breastfeeding and everything related to breastfeeding, which not only help mothers and babies, but also breastfeeding professionals to have more information and knowledge of a very important moment in the life of the Baby and the woman. But, in a way, one was missing legal guide that would serve to guide women when breastfeeding collides head-on with the world of work.
That's why, as we read in Legal Clinic, the teacher Rosario Carmona and the student Mª Carmen Gómez presented a few days ago the 'Legal Lactation Guide' which they wrote as part of the Legal Clinic.
To carry it out, on the last Wednesday of each month the Association for the support to breastfeeding “La mama d'Elx” organized a legal breastfeeding workshop in order that all mothers with doubts about it could raise them.
In these workshops, non-profit, legal assistance was offered so that women could enjoy their lactation permit and even that they could assess the possibility of suspending the employment contract due to risk during breastfeeding, always under the protection of the law .
With that experience, the authors got down to work and drafted the Legal Lactation Guide, a document of just over 20 pages with all the information regarding the breastfeeding leave and at breastfeeding risk.
The format is very enjoyable, because it is based on questions and answers, so that the information related to regulations associated with breastfeeding It is available to all breastfeeding mothers, clearly and concisely.
