urrently, the Surgeon General, the Department of Health and Human Resources, and the American Academy of Pediatrics are among the organizations that strongly recommend that babies be breastfed until one year of age. Working mothers develop their nursing techniques on maternity leave, but after returning to work many give up nursing their babies because of lack of facilities, support, and equipment at their companies. There are many benefits to all when a baby is breastfed. For example, studies show that breastfed babies are sick less than their formula-fed counterparts. 1 Nursing mothers in a supportive environment are generally not as stressed or depressed as non-nursing mothers and are better able to work productively. 2 At the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a group of volunteers recognized the need and championed the obtaining organizational support for and development of a lactation support program. The drivers for the program included: (1) women staff members relating incidents of expressing milk in parking lots and bath-room stalls, (2) the apparent lack of general management awareness of the needs of lactating women, (3) the fact that no insurance coverage was provided for normal use of breast pumps, (4) the high price of double breast pumps, and (5) the need to support women to overcome feelings of isolation and guilt they communicated over taking time to express milk at work. Management supported the development and operation of a pilot program at the laboratory to address the needs listed above. The details of the development and deployment of the pilot program and its results are provided in the following sections.