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Duke provides nine lactation rooms for faculty and staff to support women balancing their return to work with their needs as mothers of young children. Each room offers a clean, secure, and user-friendly environment for women who need to express breast milk during their work shift.
Getting Started
To get started using one of the Duke Lactation Rooms, just follow these steps:
- Set up your Duke ID card for access:
please submit the access form so that your Duke ID card can be
programmed for access. It is best to do this at least ten days in
advance. This form should be printed, completed and faxed to Staff and Family
Programs requesting access to the lactation rooms. Your information will be
forwarded to the Duke Card Office, who will contact you to make an appointment
at your convenience to program your card. You may also set up the appointment
with the Duke Card Office representative - Jim Phillips - directly, by
contacting his office at 684-5800 or 684-6289, cell 724-3897 or pager
970-5136. However, you
will still need to forward the access form to Staff and Family Programs office.
- Obtain breast pump attachments: each lactation room is equipped with an Medela Lactina electric pump. You will need to bring your own attachments for the Lactina pump, which
are available in one package at the Bouncing Ball Gift Shops in Duke
Children's Hospital (ph: 668-4112), or visit the
Medela website for other locations.
The Bouncing Ball Gift Shop is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday. You may also want to review the
Lactina Pump Instructions before your first visit.
- Plan for storage/cooling: refrigeration/storage is not provided in the rooms, so be prepared to store your breast milk as needed.
Cleaning & Sanitization
All Lactation Room users are expected to clean up after each use of a room, especially when using the on-site pump equipment. This is not only out of respect for the next user, but to prevent contamination and illness transmission. Each user should allow enough time, within your visit, to clean the pump equipment of breast milk spills after each use and dispose of trash properly. Cavicide spray and paper towels are provided for cleaning spills off of the pump. Cavicide wipes are provided for users to clean their hands. We do not recommend that you use these products to sanitize your personal equipment.
Privacy
Upon accessing the room, slide the sign to IN USE to alert other users that someone is using the room. Slide the sign back to
VACANT when you leave the room unoccupied. Please respect the privacy of all Lactation Room users by knocking before keying in your card access to the rooms. Do not prop open the door at any time.
Log Books
Each room also has a log book to facilitate room coordination with other users. Signing up in the log book does not "reserve" a
pump for one staff member's use alone. More than one staff person may need to use the room during the same time slot. It is important
to communicate about overlapping schedules and to respect the needs of other users. If you need to put a log book in a room or update
log sheets you are using please print out the templates below and place in the room. It is provided in PDF and Word document format
so that it may be amended for specific rooms by users.
How do we set up a lactation room?
Ultimately the aim is to creating a private, clean and comfortable space for your breastfeeding mothers. An unused large closet or private area off of a women's restroom would work. The area should be at least 7 feet by 7 feet, be ventilated, have a door that locks, electrical power and be completely private. It should also be accessible to employees with disabilities. Please email Staff and Family Programs for more information on how you can set up your lactation room.
Lactation Room Locations
| Perkins Library Employee Lounge |
Women's room |
1st floor next to Women's room |
| Duke Clinic |
5007 |
Take purple zone elevator to 5th
floor. Turn left at corner. |
| Duke Hospital |
5817 |
5th floor, follow signs to
Birthing Center. Take a left before the double doors, go to the end of the
hallway. |
| DCRI |
4107 |
DCRI 4th floor key access
required for entry |
| DCRI |
6015 |
DCRI 6th floor key access
required for entry |
Hudson Hall Engineering Annex,
Research Drive |
190 |
Enter Hudson Hall, follow
hallway on right, turn left at stairs, room is on the left at the end of
hallway. |
| French Science Family Room |
1230 |
Take the stairs down to the
bottom floor, turn right and pass the elevator. Room is at the end of the
hallway. |
East Campus Science Building 
(Formerly Old Art Museum) |
235 |
Take stairs to the second floor
and the room is straight ahead. Or turn left after exiting the elevator on the
second floor. |
| Levine Science Research Center (LSRC), 450 Research Drive |
B305 |
Take main stairs or elevator to third floor, turn left, room is on your left. |
Communication List-serve
Staff and Family Programs maintains a lactation room user list with contact information. Signing up
for room access includes your membership on a listserv to facilitate communications between Staff and
Family Programs and users of the lactation rooms.
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