Four Knox County Locations Get Breastfeeding Space Makeover

Knox County, Tenn. – This week is World Breastfeeding Awareness Week and the Knox County Health Department (KCHD), along with the East Tennessee Breastfeeding Coalition (ETBC), recently offered local businesses the opportunity to furnish a lactation space. Fellowship Church, the Boys and Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley, River Valley Health (Cherokee Mills location), and Muse Knoxville all have brand new lactation spaces for their breastfeeding visitors, team members, clients or patients.

KCHD and ETBC provided the following resources to furnish these rooms: recliners, room dividers, side tables, lamps, nursing pillows, and a host of other items.

“There are plenty of challenges nursing mothers face when they make the choice t

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