There is a serious shortage of maternal and child rooms in the workplace, where is the "37 degrees of maternal love" placed?

On the one hand, the group of "milk-carrying mothers" in the workplace is growing, and on the other hand, there is a serious shortage of maternal and child rooms in the workplace——

Where is "37 degrees of maternal love" placed?

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　　At the moment when scientific breastfeeding has gradually become a consensus, more and more working mothers choose to join the "milk-carrying family", but they are caught in the embarrassing situation of "hiding in Tibet" at work.

Under the guidance of the "three children" policy, although many public places and employers have gradually built mother and baby rooms, the number still cannot meet the needs of the increasingly large number of "nursing mothers".

Experts suggest that we should promote the construction and standardized management of maternity rooms, and at the same time explore a cost-sharing mechanism to protect the rights and interests of breastfeeding female workers.

　　During a meeting, the alarm clock for breast pumping rang, and the pain in the breast was unbearable. I searched all over the office building but couldn’t find a nursing room, so I had no choice but to go into the bathroom, pump out the milk and then pour it out... The recent hit drama "This Life" In "Also the First Time", the dilemma encountered by Lu Yuanfang, a working woman played by Wang Ziwen, brought the group of "milk-carrying mothers" into the focus of attention again.

　　At the moment when scientific breastfeeding has gradually become a consensus, more and more working mothers choose to join the "milk-carrying clan", but they are caught in the embarrassing situation of "hiding in Tibet" at work.

In recent years, under the guidance of the "three children" policy, although many public places and employers have gradually built mother-baby rooms for breastfeeding female employees to "carry breast milk", the number still cannot meet the growing number of "milk-carrying" rooms. mother's needs.

　　Breast milk also has a warm nickname called "37 degrees of maternal love".

How to securely arrange this "37-degree maternal love" so as not to make the "milk-carrying mother" hard and sad?

When a Working Mom Decides to Breastfeed

　　Milk storage bags, electric breast pumps, blue ice milk bags... At 8:00 in the morning, Tian Jie, who works in a high-tech enterprise in Cangshan District, Fuzhou City, packed up her equipment and left the house on time.

This is her 145th day after giving birth, and also the 20th day of becoming a "nursing mother".

She said with a smile: "On the one hand, there is a highly competitive job, and on the other hand, the son who depends on me for food, 'carrying a baby' is the best choice."

　　"Carrying milk" means that after returning to work after maternity leave, working mothers bring professional breast pumping and milk storage equipment to the unit, use work gaps to complete a series of processes such as breast pumping, refrigeration, and storage, and carry them home to their babies after work When the next day's "ration".

Tian Jie told reporters that in order to ensure the freshness of breast milk, she also purchased a small refrigerator and a feeding bottle disinfection dryer for the work station.

　　The World Health Organization recommends that babies should be exclusively breastfed for 4 to 6 months after birth, and then start to add complementary foods, and continue to breastfeed until they are two years old or beyond, until they are naturally weaned.

It is understood that on the one hand, breastfeeding can promote the baby's physical and brain development and increase its resistance to disease; on the other hand, it reduces the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and other diseases in the mother.

　　Under the influence of this scientific concept, the number of "milk-carrying mothers" is increasing day by day.

A survey once showed that 33.57% of working women who returned to work after maternity leave chose to become "nursing mothers".

　　Before deciding to "carry milk", Tian Jie did a long time of psychological construction, but she soon discovered that, compared with the hard work and troubles, how to complete the milk pumping procedure in the unit is the most difficult.

There are also surveys showing that 73.24% of "breast-carrying mothers" said that the company does not have a mother-baby room, and the places where they collect breast milk during work mainly include toilets, private cars, and conference rooms.

A “Guerrilla Warfare”

　　"Not only does the unit not have a mother and baby room, but the office is open, and the meeting room is all glass doors." In the first week of breastfeeding, Tian Jie lived a life of "fighting guerrillas" everywhere.

She has been to the bathroom, and everything can only be placed on the toilet seat. The tense, embarrassing and messy environment made her almost "return milk"; she also tried the storage room and pantry, and made a small sign of "temporary nursing room" Hanging at the door, but it takes 20 minutes to pump every time, and my heart beats when I hear footsteps.

　　Recently, inspired by the group of mothers in the same city, Tian Jie finally found a suitable place: the locker room of the gym next to the company.

She "spended" more than 2,000 yuan to apply for a membership card, just in exchange for a clean and safe space for "carrying milk".

　　Wang Han, who works in a financial institution in Dalian, faces a similar predicament as Tian Jie.

In November last year, she joined the ranks of "milk-carrying mothers". The alarm clock for pumping milk will ring on time at 11 o'clock and 16 o'clock every day, and there is nothing wrong with it.

　　When there is plenty of time, Wang Han will ride to the mother and baby room in the shopping mall near the office building. "Although the mother and baby room is often turned into a smoking room and a dressing room, and no one cleans the sanitation, it can at least provide a private space."

But when she was busy at work or had clients around, the pain of breastfeeding was unbearable, so she could only ask her female colleagues to help her "watch out" and solve it at her desk wearing a nursing towel.

"I was embarrassed and sad. I thought about weaning many times, but I gritted my teeth and persisted."

　　"All we need is a comfortable stool or sofa, a sink that can be cleaned and disinfected, a socket for charging milk collection equipment, and a refrigerator for storing breast milk. Our requirements are not difficult to meet," Tian Jie said.

　　Previously, a survey showed that 85% of "nursing mothers" chose to wean within 6 months after going to work.

Among them, 40% were forced to give up breastfeeding because the unit was inconvenient to "carry milk".

Promote the standardization of construction and management of maternal and child rooms

　　In fact, the construction of mother and baby rooms in the workplace has been called for.

Article 10 of the "Special Regulations on the Labor Protection of Female Employees" promulgated in 2012 mentioned that employers with a large number of female employees should, according to the needs of female employees, establish facilities such as female employee clinics, rest rooms for pregnant women, and breastfeeding rooms. Solve the difficulties of female employees in terms of physical hygiene and breastfeeding.

　　"The regulations at the national level are more principled. How to build and manage specific regulations needs to be further clarified by local laws and regulations." Li Lingyun, an associate professor at the School of Economics and Law of East China University of Political Science and Law, cited as an example that Guangzhou City issued the country's first breastfeeding promotion regulations earlier to promote breastfeeding. Office buildings, industrial parks and other places uniformly build breastfeeding rooms, and it is clear that the person responsible for the construction should maintain and manage them to keep them clean, safe and usable, and has issued corresponding penalty clauses.

　　In recent years, trade unions at all levels have actively promoted the construction of maternal and child rooms in workplaces, and have made great progress.

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions issued the "Policy on Implementing Trade Union Funding Support for Small and Micro Enterprises", which allows the use of returned trade union funds to build employee welfare facilities such as maternal and child rooms, which can solve the financial problems of small and micro enterprises to a certain extent.

　　The reporter learned that taking Shanghai as an example, as of now, more than 5,400 "mummy huts" have been built, covering government agencies, enterprises, industrial parks, commercial buildings, administrative service centers and other places.

　　To protect the rights and interests of breastfeeding female workers, there is still a lot of room for exploration in addition to building and making good use of mother and baby rooms.

Li Lingyun told reporters that breastfeeding female employees enjoy one hour of "breastfeeding time" every day, but in practice they are often squeezed out by work.

Employers should make flexible arrangements to allow female employees to come one hour later or leave one hour earlier, so as to fully protect the rights and interests of breastfeeding female employees in a more flexible way.

　　"Some areas have set up breastfeeding leave for female employees who really have difficulties, up to 6 months, and pay wages according to 80% of the normal wages, but the general willingness of employers is not high." Li Lingyun suggested that a cost sharing mechanism can be established. When the maternity insurance fund is relatively sufficient, the maternity insurance fund will fully or partially cover the wages of female employees during breastfeeding leave, so as to reduce the burden on the employer and increase its enthusiasm.

(Chen Xi, reporter from Workers' Daily)