By Madison Mings
Editor
SPRINGFIELD — Are you a mother going to school with a baby? Do you need a place to breastfeed but are panicking because you don’t know where to go?
LLCC’s Millennium Center added a breastfeeding room just last year for such situations.
Any breastfeeding mom can come to Millennium room 1121.
Todd McDonald, vice president of administrative services, said one of the college’s shared governance committees (Environmental Health and Safety) brought a recommendation to him that the college explore the possibility of providing a room on campus for nursing mothers.
The college’s director of facilities and McDonald began to look at buildings on campus that might have space available and appropriate for such a use, he said.
The room was a former office in the Millennium building that was being used for storage. It fit the need and also had the benefit of being centrally located on campus for easy employee and student access.
The facilities crew spruced up the room a bit with a fresh coat of paint and removed items that had been stored in the room. The room has been available for students and employee use for a little more than a year.
There is a keypad lock on the door and students needing access to the room can speak with the Student Life Office to receive the code
Employees who need access to the room can contact the Human Resources Office to receiver the code because sometimes it can be locked.
Student Life’s Amber Berman said “It’s successful.”
Having this space is great for moms, Berman said. Not breastfeeding can be problematic, or it can be a problem to try to feed a baby or pump milk in a car between classes.
It’s important to know about it because faculty and staff can use it as well.
Madison Mings can be reached at [email protected].
