Airports With Lactation Rooms

Many airports across the us have a lactation room but not all lactation rooms are created equal.

Airports with lactation rooms.

Eight of the 100 airports interviewed offered a private space other than a bathroom with an electrical outlet table and chair. Advocate for lactation support at work airports and stadiums. Advocate for your rights. It is important to note that 37 n 37 reported having designated lactation rooms and that 25 n 25 considered the unisex family female restroom as a lactation room two percent n 2 of the airports offered no comment as to what was available in the.

Previously airports could provide lactation rooms at their own discretion and while many did most failed to provide all that a breastfeeding traveler needed. Dedicated lactation rooms will have cleaning requirements and facility service providers and custodians need become familiar with them. Commercial airports will be required to provide lactation rooms at each passenger terminal building of the airport thanks to the passage of the friendly airports for mothers act fam of 2017. Friendly airports for mothers fam act.

These airports offer mother s rooms nursing rooms or lactation pods. The first thing to do when it s time to breastfeed in an airport if you aren t comfortable just finding a quiet corner of the terminal is to ask an airport worker someone at the airport information desk or even an airline s gate agent. But with a new mandate introduced by democratic senator tammy duckworth that all large and medium size airports have. A study conducted in 2014 among 100 airports found that 62 reported being breastfeeding friendly and yet only 8 of those met the minimum requirements for a person lactating or.

You need a lactation space. A champion for maternal health. By maricar santos posted feb 3rd 2017 at 1 56pm traveling through an airport as a new mom can be super stressful. On friday october 5 2018 the president signed the five year reauthorization of the federal aviation administration faa which included language that requires airports to provide lactation rooms that are accessible to the public this requirement will go into effect in 2021.

Airports are now required to have lactation rooms in each terminal. Air travel is about to become a lot more comfortable and convenient for nursing moms. It was passed in 2018 and signed into law. In 2017 the friendly airports for mothers fam act was introduced with bipartisan support.