Breastfeeding Mothers Need to Make Special Considerations While Traveling

Each year, more than 3 million breastfeeding mothers travel by plane, train or automobile. When you consider only 8 percent of airports in the United States provide spaces for mothers to breastfeed and pump, and trains provide no accommodation unless it is an overnight trip, a lot of mothers are left scrambling trying to find space that is both sanitary and private.

Diane Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, Director of the Breastfeeding and Lactation Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), recently wrote an article for The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing to offer tips for mothers on how to plan ahead while traveling.

Read the full article.