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Pregnancy & Lactation Support

Before Your Baby Arrives

Managing your pregnancy and preparing for childbirth can be a challenging time in your life. To ease stress over job-related issues, the following topics should be reviewed before the birth of your child.

Leave Information

  • FMLA
    For eligible employees, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave (up to 26 weeks for military caregiver leave), job protection and insurance premium sharing (if eligible) for medical conditions affecting you or a family member.
  • Parental Leave

If you are not eligible for leave for the birth of your child under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), you may be eligible for leave under State Parental Leave.

Nursing and Lactation Support

To support nursing mothers, lactation rooms for expressing milk during the workday are available across the UTSW campus.

How to use a lactation room

  1. Find a lactation room below.
  2. Make a reservation online (unless noted otherwise).
    Reserve a Lactation Room Online
  3. Look for an email confirmation with instructions and room access code (where applicable).
  4. Discuss with your supervisor the time needed to express your milk.

Find a Lactation Room

All lactation rooms are equipped with two stations and one pump, unless noted below.

  • North Campus
    • NA Building: NA7.601; two pumps; sink
    • NC Building: NC5.112C; sink; refrigerator (email cristalla.edwards@utsouthwestern.edu)
    • ND Building: ND6.604A
    • University Police Building (BE): BE1.106B - sink (unknown if refrigerator)

    Reserve a Lactation Room Online

  • South Campus
    • F Building: F4.302
    • L Building: L1.202
    • U Building: U4.206 - 2 stations, sink and refrigerator
    • ZL Building: (contact Rosa Garza | 214-633-6640)

    Reserve a Lactation Room Online

  • East Campus
    • CUH-Simmons Cancer Center Radiation Oncology Annex (EF)
      • EF2.142 – sink (unknown if refrigerator)
      • EF2.144 – sink (unknown if refrigerator)
    • EB Building: EB3.120

    Reserve a Lactation Room Online

  • West Campus
    • WCB3: WC6.806
    • POB1: HQ2.300

    Reserve a Lactation Room Online

    • CUH Building (Blue): 1st Floor 373; sink; refrigerator; PC
      Entry contact: Administrative Supervisor, 214-633-5246
      Maintenance contact: Women’s Resource Center, 214-633-6640
    • CUH Building (Blue): 3rd Floor 0374; refrigerator
      Entry contact: Administrative Supervisor, 214-633-5246
      Maintenance contact: Women’s Resource Center, 214-633-6640
    • CUH Building (Green): 5th Floor 424; sink
      Entry contact: Administrative Supervisor, 214-633-5246
      Maintenance contact: Women’s Resource Center, 214-633-6640
    • CUH (Orange):
      • 4th Floor 04.676; sink; refrigerator
      • 4th Floor 04.677; sink; refrigerator
      • 6th Floor 06.1618; sink; refrigerator
      • 9th Floor 09.1618; sink; refrigerator

    Entry contact: Administrative Supervisor, 214-633-5246
    Maintenance contact: Women’s Resource Center, 214-633-6640

  • Other
    • Brookriver South Building, Level 1: LBS109A; sink
    • Empire Plaza II (LD): LD1.320B; one space, sink
    • Las Colinas Facility: RV2.202P; sink
    • Pegasus Park Building:
      • Level 3, LP3.126 (use Pegasus badge in elevator to access 3rd floor)
      • Level 5, LP5.224 (use Pegasus badge in elevator to access 5th floor)
      • Level 6, LP6.224 (no badge required to access 6th floor)
    • Plano Pediatric Clinic: 3.349; 2 stations, sink
    • Simmons Cancer Care Outpatient Building: Level 2, Room NM2.938; one space, sink.

    Reserve a Lactation Room Online

     

    • Children’s Health: Reserve on Children’s Medical Center intranet: Childnet > Departments > Clinical > Lactation
    • VA North Texas Health System (contact Leslie Snowden-Crawford | leslie.snowden-crawford@va.gov | 214-857-1938)
    • Callier Center (for moms of enrollees only; call 214-905-3099)
    • First Step Learning Centre (for moms of enrollees only; call 214-352-8608; on-site nursing permitted)
    • Parkland Memorial Hospital: For access, contact Shaleese Thomas at 469-419-3803. She will email you detailed instructions on how to have your employment status verified. Call 77777, Parkland non-emergency for temporary access.
    • The Peter O’Donnell Institute Building: Level 3, Rooms NS3.404 and NS3.402; four spaces, sink. To get access, please Email badgeaccess.
    • Woodview Tower (LE): LE6.150 – sink and refrigerator
    • Trinity Towers (LT): LT3.224 – sink and refrigerator 
    • UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird (RB): RB1.320 – no sink, no refrigerator
    • UT Southwestern Medical Center at Coppell (RK): RB1.320 – no sink, no refrigerator

Related Links & Free Resources

Related Policy

  • UT Southwestern Lactation Support Policy (ETH-155)
    Understanding that breastfeeding should be encouraged in the interest of maternal and child health, UT Southwestern will use reasonable efforts to provide work-schedule flexibility for the expression of milk for up to two years after the birth of a child.

Questions about the nursing mothers program?

Nursingmothersprogram@UTSouthwestern.edu

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