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CONDUSEF
The CONDUSEF, the National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Financial Services Users, recently inaugurated a breastfeeding booth at its headquarters to provide working mothers with a decent space that facilitates breastfeeding and their adaptation to the work environment.
Breastfeeding cabin
The lactation room is a place in the workplace where nursing mothers can breastfeed or express their milk, store it properly, and take it home to feed their child. The creation of lactation rooms is important for creating a work environment that protects health and promotes gender equality, providing working mothers with a warm, hygienic, and adequate space that allows them to continue breastfeeding while carrying out their productive activities.
Mexico has one of the lowest rates in Latin America
In Mexico, breastfeeding has one of the lowest rates in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Ministry of Health (SS), the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS), and the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). The National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE) shows that as of the first quarter of 2020, there were 21.8 million employed women in Mexico, of whom 63.71% were of reproductive age and 73.81% were mothers. Therefore, it is necessary to have policies that promote the inclusion and retention of women in the workforce under equitable conditions, eliminating discriminatory practices and notions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) indicate that long-term breastfeeding can reduce overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes in those who were breastfed. They also found that optimal breastfeeding has beneficial effects on intelligence quotient (IQ) tests in children and adolescents. Regarding the duration of breastfeeding, they note that those who were breastfed for seven to nine months, on average, have an IQ score six points higher than those who were breastfed for less than a month.
Benefits of breastfeeding
Breastfeeding also reduces environmental impacts on communities and decreases both school absenteeism and health care costs, according to PAHO. UNICEF highlights that Breastfeeding provides babies with all the necessary nutrients and hydration and helps prevent gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, obesity, diabetes, leukemia, allergies, childhood cancer, hypertension and high cholesterol.
Breastfeeding is also beneficial for mothers and their families, as it aids in their physical recovery after childbirth and contributes to reducing the long-term risk of developing ovarian cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart attacks, anemia, and osteoporosis. Establishing breastfeeding rooms also promotes and strengthens work-family balance, allowing working mothers to have informed decision-making options.