According to the law, if a female worker has difficulties after giving birth, she can apply for a six-and-a-half-month holiday upon her own application and the approval of the unit, which is what we usually call breastfeeding leave. During breast-feeding leave, the wages of female employees are paid according to 80% of maternity leave wages. Breastfeeding means that female workers should take care of their babies after giving birth and breastfeed twice in each class. The time for single-child breastfeeding is 30 minutes at a time. Therefore, the period when a baby is less than one year old is often called "lactation" or lactation. With regard to the extension of lactation, if the baby is diagnosed as weak by the medical and health institutions at or above the county level after reaching one year old, the lactation period of female employees may be appropriately extended, but the longest period shall not exceed six months. Among them, frail infants refer to those who suffer from rickets over one year old and need to be diagnosed by blood biochemistry or wrist radiography, with anemia hb less than or equal to 9 grams, malnutrition, congenital heart disease, cerebral hypoplasia, cleft lip and palate and other serious congenital malformations, and are hospitalized three times in one year. It can be seen that as long as there is a certificate issued by the relevant medical institution, the "lactation period" can be completely extended, up to one and a half years old.

legal ground

Article 9 of the Special Provisions on Labor Protection for Female Employees, the employing unit shall not extend working hours or arrange night work for female employees who are breastfeeding 1 infants under one year of age. The employer shall arrange 1 hour breastfeeding time for lactating female employees during daily working hours; If a female worker gives birth to multiple births, the breastfeeding time will increase by 1 hour every day for each additional birth 1 baby.