Some of the most inconspicuous rooms on Capitol Hill have the most colorful nicknames — Lactation Lobby, Lactation Station, Milk Factory and Boob Cube....
>>>Some of the most inconspicuous rooms on Capitol Hill have the most colorful nicknames — Lactation Lobby, Lactation Station, Milk Factory and Boob Cube.
Officially, they are lactation suites, and as with almost everything in Congress, they have their own unspoken rules and etiquette.
“What you hear in the lactation room stays in the lactation room,” said Jennifer Walsh, chief of staff to Representative Dennis Cardoza, Democrat of California, and until recently a nursing mother.
There are four lactation suites throughout the Hill — two in House office buildings, one that is undergoing renovation in a Senate office building and one in the Capitol itself — along with several health stations. All are clean, private areas where mothers can nurse their babies and pump their milk. They are also one of the few truly bipartisan spaces left on the Hill, neutral zones amid partisan warfare.
Read more about these safe havens for our elected officials who are nursing mothers in the New York Times article linked below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/us/02lactation.html
