A Tale of Two Jobs: When the Body Is in the Workplace... What This Social Worker has Learned About Breastfeeding Along the Way as a Working Mother

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  • Mica Slaven-Lamothe

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This narrative describes the socio-cultural enlightening of a social worker from her personal experiences as a breastfeeding worker. It locates breastfeeding as both a workplace issue as well as an issue of labor in itself. The lessons she learns about breastfeeding as a work-based issue are organized into three broad areas: the reframing of breastfeeding as unpaid labor; dialogue and education on breastfeeding issues as they relate to women's ability to remain engaged in the workforce; and development and dissemination of laws and policies that support breastfeeding as a work-based practice.

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Slaven-Lamothe, M. (2014). A Tale of Two Jobs: When the Body Is in the Workplace. What This Social Worker has Learned About Breastfeeding Along the Way as a Working Mother. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 16(2), 88–93. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/826

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