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Lactation Support Services

 

In recognition of the well documented health advantages of breastfeeding for infants and mothers, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette provides a supportive environment to enable breastfeeding faculty, staff, and students to express their milk during university hours.

Our Lactation Rooms

  • Each of our lactation rooms provides a private, quiet space for moms to pump their breast milk or to breastfeed their babies. Each room is is located close to a bathroom and equipped with an electrical outlet, a door that locks from the inside, a comfortable chair and a small table.
  • The lactatio

     

    n room located in Student Health Service has a Pj's Comfort breast pump with tubing and supplies if you forget to bring your own.
  • Through a grant from March of Dimes, each room has been equipped with educational materials.

Where do I find a lactation room?

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Student Health Services- Saucier Wellness Center at O.K. Allen Hall 
220 Hebrard Boulevard
Lafayette, LA 70503
(337) 482-5464

Go to the front desk in Student Health Services and ask to use the Lactation Room.

Student Union
620 McKinley Street
Lafayette, LA 70503
337-482-6400

Go to the Information Desk in The U and ask for the key to use the Lactation Room.

Bourgeois Hall
225 Cajundome Blvd
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6159

Go to the Information Desk in Bourgeois Hall and ask for the key to use the Lactation Room.

Edith Garland Dupre Library
400 E. St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70503
(337) 482-6025

Go to the Circulation Desk in the Library and ask for the key to use the Lactation Room.

 

Nursing Mom Responsibilities

  • Must provide their own breast pumps.
  • Provide their own clearly identified, leak-proof containers for storage of expressed milk.
  • Nursing mothers, who are faculty or staff, may contact the Office of Human Resources with questions regarding this policy.
  • Nursing mothers, who are students, may contact the Office of Student Health Services with questions regarding this policy.
  • All nursing mothers are responsible for keeping the general lactation room clean for the next user. This responsibility extends to both designated milk expression areas, as well as other areas where breastmilk expression will occur. The university will provide daily janitorial services for each lactation room.