Breastfeeding Support Program
For Students, Faculty, Staff and their Spouses/Partners and UCOP

The Breastfeeding Support Program serves faculty, staff, students, and their spouses/domestic partners and employees at Office of the President choosing to continue breastfeeding after returning to work or school. The program includes breastfeeding classes with a lactation consultant, lactation rooms on campus with hospital-grade breast pumps, and sales of personal, electric breast pumps and personal kits for use with the pumps in the campus lactation rooms at a discounted price. For more information, please contact Health*Matters at (510) 643-4646 or .

Contents:

• Mother-Baby Friendly Workplace Award 2005
• Register for the Breastfeeding Support Program
• Breastfeeding Class
• Lactation Rooms on Campus
• Breast Pump Products for the Berkeley Campus Community
• Assembly Bill 1025: Lactation Accommodation on Campus
• Campus Resources

Mother-Baby Friendly Workplace Award 2005
The Health*Matters Breastfeeding Support Program is honored to receive the Mother-Baby Friendly Workplace Award for 2005 from the Bay Area Lactation Associates (BALA) and the Alameda County Breastfeeding Coalition, in recognition of the University's efforts to support new parents returning to work or school. For local media coverage about the award, please see the article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday, August 24, 2005.

Register for the Breastfeeding Support Program
Begin by registering for the Breastfeeding Support Program when you would like to use any of the services (purchasing a pump, using a room, etc.). Registration is free to all UC Berkeley faculty, staff, students, and their spouses/domestic partners, and allows us to track the use of the program.

To register, complete a registration form (pdf file) and return by fax to (510) 642-7411. If you are enrolling in the breastfeeding class, you will be given a registration form to complete at the beginning of the class.

Alternatively, you may contact Health*Matters at (510) 643-4646 or .

Breastfeeding Class: How-To's of Breastfeeding and Returning to Work or School
The class is free of charge to UC Berkeley faculty, staff, students, and their spouses/domestic partners. It is offered 4 times per year; check here for the current schedule. You can enroll through Interactive Course Enrollment (ICE) or call Health*Matters at (510) 643-4646. When registering on ICE, students should follow the instructions to create a temporary ID.

Participants will learn:

• Breastfeeding basics
• Common minor problems and how to manage them
• Return-to-work or school issues, including expression and storage of breastmilk
• Demonstration of personal electric pumps and manual pumps

Please note: For those unable to attend the breastfeeding class, you may call Health*Matters at (510) 643-4646 to receive a comprehensive, educational packet of materials on breastfeeding how-to's and return to work or school planning. These materials are mailed through campus mail only.

Lactation Rooms on Campus
The campus has several lactation rooms on campus, most of which have a hospital-grade electric breast pump for use either with the attachments from the Purely Yours Electric Breast Pump® by Ameda or a personal HygieniKit® Dual Pumping Kit. Both of these products are available to purchase at cost from Health*Matters.

Lactation rooms with hospital-grade breast pumps are located in the following buildings:

• Evans Hall
• Haas School of Business
• Moffitt Library
  
• Simon Hall
  
• Tolman Hall
• University Hall
• Giannini Hall
  

Lactation room without hospital-grade pumps are located in the following buildings:

• Tolman Hall - room 3204 (inside the women's restroom) is a small space with a privacy curtain and a chair for nursing or pumping.

To use a lactation room on campus, complete a registration form (pdf file) with the Breastfeeding Support Program. After you have registered, the location of rooms and the specific access process will be made available to you.

NOTICE:
The Simon Hall lactation room will be temporarily unavailable due to construction beginning June 18, 2008.

Breast Pump Products for the Berkeley Campus Community
The University Health Services has contracted with Ameda to carry some of their breast pump products. The campus community - faculty, staff, students, and their spouses/domestic partners - may purchase any of the following products at a substantial discount from retail prices.

• Purely Yours Electric Breast Pump with Carry All ($170.00 plus tax) is a portable pump that operates on three power source options, including AC adapter, (6) AA batteries, or optional car adapter. Weighing only one (1) pound, Purely Yours fits into its own compact tote bag designed to hold the pump and all accessories while safely storing collected milk up to 10 hours in the Cool 'N Carry insulated tote included with in the Carry All. Product #17077
  
  
• HygieniKit® Dual Pumping Kit ($31.00 plus tax) is your personal attachment kit needed to use the hospital-grade electric pump in the lactation rooms. The kit's unique silicone diaphragm acts as a barrier to ensure milk purity by preventing contaminants from coming in contact with collected breast milk and prevents milk back-up so tubing and pump require little to no maintenance. Product #17131

Please call Health*Matters at (510) 643-4646 for an appointment to purchase these products at the Health*Matters office. Please note: payment is accepted by cash or check only.

Learning How to Use the Electric Breast Pumps
To learn how to use the Purely Your electric breast pump or the HygieniKit used for the hospital grade pumps in the campus lactation rooms, you can watch a 10-minute instructional video available for viewing at Health*Matters. Please call (510) 643-4646 to make an appointment for viewing.

The Breastfeeding Support Program is sponsored by University Health Services - Health*Matters, the worksite health promotion program, and is open to all Berkeley faculty, staff, students, and their spouses/domestic partners. For more information, contact:

Health*Matters
(510) 643-4646
UHS - Tang Center
2222 Bancroft Ave
Berkeley, CA 94720-4300

Assembly Bill 1025: Lactation Accommodation on Campus
Assembly Bill (AB) 1025, effective January 1, 2002, requires California employers to make reasonable efforts to provide break time and space for employees who are nursing their infants to express milk during work hours. The Breastfeeding Support Program is assisting the University with implementation of AB 1025.

Under this bill, employers are required to make reasonable efforts to provide an appropriate, private space for breastfeeding mother to express milk. The law is specific to state that this may not be a toilet stall. Managers and supervisors should assist employees who do not have a private office with finding an appropriate space in their building.

For those employees who cannot be accomodated in their building, there are four on-campus lactation rooms equipped with hospital-grade electric breast pumps. To learn more about the rooms, contact Health*Matters at (510) 643-4646 or at .

For non-exempt employees, the break time accommodation may run concurrently with rest periods provided pursuant to personnel policy. If you need assistance with the break time accommodation, contact your Department Employee Relations Specialist, or the Customer Service Line, Office of Human Resources at (510) 642-7163.

Campus Resources
Guide for Balancing Work and Family
The Parents Network

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