Airports With Lactation Rooms

Dedicated lactation rooms will have cleaning requirements and facility service providers and custodians need become familiar with them.

Airports with lactation rooms.

On friday a 2017 bill requiring commercial airports to have designated breastfeeding rooms available became law. Eight of the 100 airports interviewed offered a private space other than a bathroom with an electrical outlet table and chair. You need a lactation space. But with a new mandate introduced by democratic senator tammy duckworth that all large and medium size airports have.

Commercial airports will be required to provide lactation rooms at each passenger terminal building of the airport thanks to the passage of the friendly airports for mothers act fam of 2017. Many airports across the us have a lactation room but not all lactation rooms are created equal. The provisions came from the bipartisan friendly airports for mothers fam. Advocate for your rights.

Airports are now required to have lactation rooms in each terminal. On friday october 5 2018 the president signed the five year reauthorization of the federal aviation administration faa which included language that requires airports to provide lactation rooms that are accessible to the public this requirement will go into effect in 2021. It was passed in 2018 and signed into law. In 2017 the friendly airports for mothers fam act was introduced with bipartisan support.

From beer to breastfeeding. Previously airports could provide lactation rooms at their own discretion and while many did most failed to provide all that a breastfeeding traveler needed. Air travel is about to become a lot more comfortable and convenient for nursing moms. It is important to note that 37 n 37 reported having designated lactation rooms and that 25 n 25 considered the unisex family female restroom as a lactation room two percent n 2 of the airports offered no comment as to what was available in the.

A champion for maternal health. Advocate for lactation support at work airports and stadiums. Friendly airports for mothers fam act. A study conducted in 2014 among 100 airports found that 62 reported being breastfeeding friendly and yet only 8 of those met the minimum requirements for a person lactating or.