Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers by Transforming Library Space: A Nursing Mothers Room Project

ABSTRACT

Librarians at Rowland Medical Library collaborated with individuals from across the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) to transform an unused library office to a nursing mothers room. This project resulted in a functional and attractive room for breastfeeding students and employees to pump breast milk.

KEYWORDS:

• Breastfeeding
• health promotion
• library space
• nursing mothers
• outreach

Acknowledgments

Developed resources reported in this publication are supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012340 with the University of Maryland, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, under Subaward No. 1600679, with the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.