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Why Breastfeeding Support at Corporate Events Matters More Than You Think

5/12/25

Travel Tips, Workplace Support, Employers

Why Breastfeeding Support at Corporate Events Matters More Than You Think

Breastfeeding parents want to attend the same career-building events as everyone else—sales meetings, client offsites, professional trainings, annual conferences. These are the moments where teams align, relationships deepen, and careers move forward. But for too many pumping parents, these opportunities are off-limits—not because of interest or commitment, but because of logistics. When Pumping Makes Travel Seem Impossible For a parent who is breastfeeding, saying yes to an event means navigating an extra set of complex needs that other attendees don't…

The Lactation Room Tells the Truth

If you want to know how a workplace actually feels about working parents, don't read the policy. Look at the space they walk into. That's the quiet, devastating thesis of Corinne May Botz's photo essay in The Guardian last week, which takes readers inside more than thirty American lactation spaces, from the wood-paneled suites of the U.S. Capitol to boiler rooms, basement corners, repurposed storage closets, a tent in a farm field, and an improvised station inside a prison. Botz…