Will Breastfeeding on Zoom Break the Work-Life Barrier Once and for All?

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Like the breastfeeding selfie, the breastfeeding Zoom call could normalize the act, and just maybe make it a bit easier for working mothers.

The challenges of continuing to breastfeed when you return to work are significant: when to nurse or pump, for how long, and how to fit it in with work-related responsibilities. Goodby to sweater dresses, jumpsuits, or any other item of clothing that doesn't allow you to strip quickly from the waist up.

“Nursing is going to be a completely different experience for women who are working from home,” says Jada Shapiro, a maternal health expert and founder of, a platform that connects parents to lactation consultants, birth and postpartum doulas, and mental health therapists. Shapiro specializes in immediate postpartum care, but says that she fields a lot of requests for help when women return to work in an office.

Shapiro describes a video call in which a new mom began nursing without skipping a beat. “We were talking details of our upcoming webinar and then she started breastfeeding. The baby had to eat, she latched on, and we kept talking. I'm sure she felt comfortable while talking to the founder of a company with a mission to make breastfeeding easier for people, but I truly hope all moms and lactating parents will feel the same level of comfort during their work-from-home life.

This gets at one of the potential, inadvertent benefits of our punishing social experiment in juggling work and childcare. Like the

 

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Trying to normalize something that has been a normal act sense the beginning of time. This world is soooo sexist WAP 😂💥❤️

When Breastfeeding, I will not recommend a selfie or take a Zoom. How about u?

Why would anyone want to do that.

uhhhhhh

Friends don't let friends Zoom

No, bc men still exist in the workplace. I’m only half joking. Men/fathers don’t typically share the majority of the parenting workload, esp at first stages so it’s hard for them to empathize with the balancing act.

The only question is if this was written by pervs spying from China or pervs spying from the NSA.

The camera doesn't have to be pointed at the breast so it should really be fine.

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