"After having children, every time I go out, I have to see if there is a maternal and child room. For lactating mothers, the maternal and child room is really important. " Ms. Xing from Changsha City, Hunan Province said.
This is the heart sound of many mothers. "The maternal and child room can really reduce the burden on mothers." Ms. Mo, a citizen of Guangzhou, is the mother of two children. She said that when she used to take her eldest daughter out, she had to wrap her clothes on her chest and breastfeed in a hurry, which was embarrassing and she didn't want to go out for a while. "Now there are more and more maternal and child rooms, which makes my mother feel much more convenient."
Ouyang Yanqiong, an associate professor at the School of Health, Wuhan University, believes that the establishment of maternal and child rooms in public places is conducive to creating a social environment that cares for mothers, reflecting the progress of social civilization and improving the breastfeeding rate. "Some mothers have to stop breastfeeding because it is inconvenient to breastfeed in public places. With the maternal and child room, the activities of breastfeeding mothers and babies can be less restricted. "
In addition, compared with the second draft, the regulations specify in detail the legal responsibilities of medical institutions and producers and operators of breast milk substitutes. For example, Article 23 stipulates that if medical institutions and their staff accept breast milk substitutes provided free of charge by breast milk substitutes producers and operators, or accept equipment, funds and materials provided by breast milk substitutes producers and operators conditionally, the health administrative department shall order them to make corrections, confiscate their illegal income and impose a fine of more than 2,000 yuan and less than 20,000 yuan.
If the producers and operators of breast milk substitutes provide the above items to medical institutions and their staff in violation of the provisions of the Regulations, they will also be ordered by the market supervision administrative department to make corrections and be fined 1 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan.
In order to solve the problem that it is inconvenient for mothers to breastfeed in public places, in recent years, "mother-and-baby rooms" have been put on the agenda at all levels in various places, and the matching and popularization of such facilities in public places have been promoted to varying degrees, but overall it still stays at the theoretical level and appears fragmented. However, the only law related to breastfeeding is the Law on the Protection of Mothers and Infants, which can no longer meet the needs of the times.
From this perspective, the greater significance of Guangzhou legislation is the role of exploration. First, it has made a useful attempt to improve the national maternal and child protection system and provided ideas and experience; The second is to further clarify the concept and orientation of breastfeeding, raise breastfeeding from the responsibility of mother and family to the responsibility of family, society and government, make every child a "national child" in the institutional sense, and explore ways to promote and protect it. For example, the construction of "mother-and-baby room" has become a compulsory responsibility, and it is clear that "eight types of places" must be equipped. The government gives certain subsidies and requires employers to give breastfeeding female employees the convenience of taking vacations and breastfeeding. They are all "real money and silver" benefits, which is also a breakthrough.