Although maternal and child rooms are not everyone's needs, breastfeeding groups are urgently needed. Breastfeeding mothers work harder and face a lot of embarrassment. In addition to being unwell every day, I have to prepare rations for my baby in the office. If there is no private space, avoid crowds, such as hiding in the bathroom or utility room. Going out with the baby, there is no private space in public places, and I am afraid that there is no suitable place to feed. In desperation, I am topless and secretive, and others look askance and point fingers, which brings great psychological pressure to mothers.
Since breastfeeding is so troublesome, why should it be widely advocated and chosen by so many people? From the government to the people, the voice of establishing maternal and child rooms is getting higher and higher. It is precisely because of the irreplaceability of breast milk that it can not only reduce the incidence of some diseases in infants, but also promote the cognitive ability of infants, which is conducive to the recovery of mothers after childbirth and reduce the risk of some diseases. Therefore, providing a good environment for breastfeeding groups in public space represents the level and friendliness of public facilities.
Japan has well-equipped maternal and child rooms, including diaper tables, drinking water, clean sinks, children's washbasins, paper towels, microwave ovens and other equipment.
Maternal and infant room with multiple functional partitions
The concept of maternal and child room is still relatively new. Although it has entered the public's field of vision for some years, problems such as uneven proportion, large configuration difference and unclear route guidance have always existed. The number of maternity rooms in first-and second-tier cities is also very limited, and even fewer in third-and fourth-tier cities.
There are more opportunities to contact the maternal and child room in large shopping malls and airports. In crowded subway stations, railway stations and park attractions, maternal and child rooms still hate scarcity.
The maternal and child room is divided into "high and low". Early maternal and child rooms usually had a diaper table, a trash can, or a dedicated sink, and there was little independent private space for feeding. This simple configuration is also common in the current scheme of using the bathroom or near the bathroom. The advantages are more distribution, less occupied space and low cost, which can meet the needs of changing diapers. The high-end maternal and infant room is a collection of diaper table, paper towels, hand sanitizer, disinfectant, cleaning pool, children's toilet, crib, refrigerator and milk warmer. The biggest difference is the addition of an independent and private breastfeeding space, which can even be used by family members.
I made a chart according to the demand level.
If we sort out the relatively perfect configuration of the mother-infant room, diaper tables and chairs are the biggest demand and the lowest standard. The diaper table can be used in multiple groups in an open space, or it can be integrated with the chair into an independent nursing room for complete use.
Equipped with a chair for feeding, this space must be independent to have privacy. At present, some shopping malls have sorting areas (most of them are equipped with diaper tables, trash cans and hand sinks), and multiple sets of equipment are placed in a larger space. The nursing room is a combination of curtain drawing and independent partition, or there are multiple independent partitions after entering a large space.
The tour guide map on the third floor of Suzhou Center is marked with the distribution of toilets in red, and the larger pink area on the left is the "Maternal and Child Center". In several women's toilets, there is a maternal and child area and a diaper table.
On-the-spot visit to the large shopping mall in Suzhou Center, which opened in Suzhou last year, the maternal and child rooms are divided into two categories. One kind is more common, which is a suite with a bathroom (mostly for women), or next to the bathroom. The core configuration is toilet, diaper table, toilet paper and trash can, and the sink is in the external public area. It's distributed a lot, on every floor.
On the 3rd floor, there are many shops for children's entertainment, education and maternal and child supplies, and there is also a "maternal and child center" (pink on the left) with an area of over 200m2, which is similar to some large maternal and child rooms abroad.
Entering the mother-infant center is a children's entertainment area and a rest area for children to play. For example, two children travel together and one of them has a place to put it. There is a rest area opposite, where adults can rest and children can be seen at a certain distance.
There are trash cans and paper towels in the middle row of the countertop.
Followed by the open finishing area, there are more than a dozen diaper tables in three rows, which are reasonably distributed, with hand basins, paper towels and cleaning liquid on the side, and the aisle spacing is very large.