• Your employee's baby will get sick much less often--probably about one third to one eighth as often as a bottle-fed baby. Your employee will need to take correspondingly fewer sick leaves. She'll be much happier too, and will probably be better motivated.
• To encourage a breastfeeding mother return to work and work productively, you can provide nursing or breast pumping breaks, and a "lactation room" here's a list of employers that provide such facilities). Breast pumping breaks will take less time than cigarette breaks or water-fountain-chat breaks that other employees take--with a fully automatic double pump, the breasts can be emptied in about ten minutes, and two to three pumping sessions a day are enough for a mother who's already established her milk supply.
• When these simple measures are taken, your employee will be much more reliable and productive, and also much more likely to stay on the job. You'll save considerable money on training new employees.

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