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[ID] 1285 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen Other Areas: former nursing mother [Comment] I think that if basic healthcare were framed as a right, not a privilege, it would go a long way toward encouraging breastfeeding. In the current system, mothers can be separated from their babies because if they quit their jobs, the whole family will be without health insurance. If that weren't an issue, mothers could be free to choose jobs that would allow them to be with their babies most or all of the time, instead of separated from them for 8-10 hours of every day. Of course one can breastfeed while working full time--I did it--but so much separation from the baby is detrimental to milk production, and it means that some of the precious few hours that one *does* have to spend with one's baby is taken up by pump use and maintenance. [Topic] 
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