The Tulane Breastfeeding Support Program

Goal:

• To promote healthy families with a campus-wide initiative to protect, promote, and support students, staff, and faculty mothers who breastfeed

Objectives:

• Increase awareness on Tulane's campus of the benefits of breastfeeding to mother, infant, and society

• Implement and evaluate strategies necessary to create breastfeeding-friendly environment

• Utilize available university/community resources to build a workplace breastfeeding program

• Encourage and facilitate exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of an infant's life with continued breastfeeding for at least one year

• Ensure that the senior leadership understand the employer benefits of successful workplace breastfeeding programs