A Room of Their Own; Breast-Feeding Mothers at Scsu Have a Place for Privacy

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Over the years, Michele Vancour kept noticing mini-refrigerators in the offices of female faculty members at Southern Connecticut State University.

"I would say 'How convenient' and they would say they brought it in when they were breast-feeding," said Vancour, an associate professor of public health who helped launch the new Mothers Support Network at Southern.

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A Room of Their Own; Breast-Feeding Mothers at Scsu Have a Place for Privacy

Working mothers who nurse their babies have long had to improvise for private places to express milk and store it.

"It was uncomfortable. Women said they were pumping milk in their office and having students knock on their doors or they were pumping in bathroom stalls," said Vancour, who has condu...

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