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Small businesses can face additional challenges when considering initiatives to support breastfeeding, particularly those that have confined spaces.
If you are a small business, some creative ideas that other small employers have already used might work for you:
- If you can’t provide the space, can you provide the time e.g. flexible working hours, reduced hours, longer lunch hours and working from home?
- Make one or more offices available at intervals during the day. They might need blinds installed for privacy, or a comfy chair added
- A number of different businesses in a mall, or in the vicinity of a mall, or in a single building, could pool resources to lease and equip a family room for staff
- If a room isn’t available, look at the different spaces you have and consider whether anything could be reorganised or stored off-site to create a suitable space, even if only temporarily
- Could a sick room be adapted?
- Use screens and ‘do not disturb’ notices to make a cubicle private
- Contact a breastfeeding advocate to work with your organisation one-to-one.
For more ideas see the section headed “For more information”.
“If I didn’t have an employer who could be as flexible as mine was, or who wasn’t so supportive, I would probably have come back to work later, or I would have looked for somewhere else.” Jo, employee.
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