Lactation Rooms

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for certain organizations with 50 or more employees to provide a private location and “reasonable break time” for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for one year after the child's birth. Bathrooms cannot be designated as lactations rooms by the institution.

Fourteen private breastfeeding rooms are designated at buildings across campus:

• Art Building, Room  185
• Business Leadership Building (BLB), Room 388A
• Discovery Park, Room B145A
• Facilities Office Building, Room 125
• Frisco Landing, Rooms 170,177
• General Academic Building (GAB), Room 542A
• Gateway Center, Room C058B
• Kristin Farmer Autism Center, Room 122
• Life Science Complex, Room A254
• Sage Hall, Room 273
• Support and Services Building (SSB), Room 112
• University Services Building (USB), Room 192A
• University Union Building, Room 431
• Willis Library, Room 152

Each room has a wood-look vinyl plank floor for ease of cleaning, includes a bariatric chair (rated to hold up to 1,000 pounds) covered in vinyl upholstery (also for ease of cleaning), a side table, and a table lamp so nursing mothers can turn off the overhead light if they so choose.

Each room also includes an outlet for a breast pump and a Koala brand changing table. There are no sinks in the rooms, but wall-mounted hand sanitizer dispensers installed.

The Texas Health Code identifies organizations as “mother-friendly” when they establish policies to support worksite breastfeeding. The code also allows breastfeeding in any location.