City of Bloomington, MN Health & Wellness, 21 Aug 2019

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From YouTube: Businesses recognized for supporting working moms

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Several Bloomington businesses were recognized for supporting breastfeeding and working moms during National Breastfeeding Awareness Month.

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Balancing life and work isn't always easy, especially for working moms. Who've recently had a baby, but at several Bloomington businesses, employers are doing their part to make the transition as easy as possible. Breastfeeding is.

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Definitely good for babies and for business. Eight.

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Bloomington businesses were recently recognized at a city council meeting for supporting breastfeeding at work. A couple moms even accepted the award with babies in tow I work.

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At Tree, Orthopaedic, Center and I'm, an administrative assistant to several managers and directors, Alissa.

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Bates is one of those moms I.

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Had my first baby five years ago and at the time when I returned to work there, weren't as many locations established for you to pump in and there weren't calendars established to help prevent conflicts when, when different moms had to come in and use the room, that's.

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When Alissa put the work into being a working mom, she advocated for more established mothers rooms fully equipped with a hospital-grade pump and mothers kit for new moms returning back to work. She also meets with new moms the day they get back to answer any questions, I think.

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Any and all employers should consider the impact that it makes on their staff, as we've seen it here firsthand and it's a very powerful thing. These women feel very very supported returning to work, a feeling.

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Mom's at SFM mutual insurance company can relate to it.

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Means a lot I didn't feel as stressed being off work, because I was getting paid during a lot of that time, and also to be able to give breast milk for my daughter for that long and not have to worry about retribution or something for being gone from my desk or having the clock out every time. I had to go downstairs, so it was.

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Great my biggest thing was the flexibility that my team offered when I had my little girl. It was our busiest time of the year so like leaving your team and Alert with a little bit of a stressor to so they allowed me to work from home a little bit and do weird hours so that I could still care for her mother's.

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Want to you know, work and be mothers and I just think with us. If I'm having that emphasis on supporting mom, it gives us the ability to do that. I think.

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For me, that was one thing that has really been important for me to want to stay here at SFM is knowing that. There's this work-life balance and the ability to to stay stay in balance and help our children and be able to be at home and be able to be productive here at work.

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And that's the kind of feedback the company is aiming for. We.

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Value our all of our employees, but we really do in value our mothers, it's very important for us that we show that caring and compassion it's not just the law. For us it is really about taking care of our employees and when they're happy we're happy, we have a workforce that is over sixty percent female. So we really do try to take care of our moms and part of that too, is they don't have to punch in or out for breaks? We trust them, and we ask that that use the room.

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We know that in the end they're going to come back and give you the more of it that can be productive while they're in the workforce, because.

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Supporting breastfeeding not only helps moms, it's a good business decision. One also made a TED mentum in Bloomington. We.

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Are super excited to be able to support our moms, but we also recognize that it keeps them more focused, engaged and committed at their jobs as well, because they don't ever have to worry about finding that space and the privacy that they need. As a mom myself, I have twin boys and I remember coming back to work after being home with them and a maternity leave, and it was very, very tough.

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The company that I worked for at that time did not provide private space for mothers or mothers rooms in general, so it was always stressful and always really when you think about that, takes the focus away from being at your job and bringing.

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Awareness to this issue is what this City Council proclamation was all about. The other businesses recognized were health partners, Minnesota gastroenterology north mark prime therapeutics and UMB bank I.

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Think it's really cool. This is the first time we're hearing the city of Bloomington, recognizing businesses and really bringing attention to breastfeeding mothers and importance of supporting mothers that are coming back from maternity leave and we feel as a company. We feel really honored to be able to help, support that and promote that and speak about that. And we hope that this brings more awareness and motivates other businesses to do the same and supporting breastfeeding mothers at a workplace.

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