The Department of health of new York opened in the five boroughs of the city public room where nursing mothers can safely feed the baby.
The rooms have comfortable benches, a Desk, sockets for connecting an electric breast pump during lactation. Door you can lock from the inside, if you want to have in the room no one else came in.
The rooms are located:
- Queens: Queens Hospital Center
- Harlem: Harlem Hospital Center
- Bronx: Bronx Zoo
- Brooklyn: Brooklyn Children’s Museum
- Staten island: Staten Island Children’s Museum.
This initiative is part of a citywide program to support breastfeeding and provide comfort to nursing mothers in new York.
«Breastfeeding — the best and most complete form of nutrition for infants and for the health of mom,» he told NBC representative of the Department of health of new York Dr. Mary T. Bassett. «We are fortunate that we live in the city, which protects the mother’s right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime», she said.
