What Does San Luis Potosí's New Breastfeeding Law Entail?

The Breastfeeding Law in San Luis Potosí is now a reality. The regulation, approved by the

, establishes specific rights, obligations, and conditions to ensure that women can breastfeed in safe, dignified, and functional environments, both in public and at workplaces. The legislation recognizes breastfeeding as a decisive factor in child health, comprehensive development, and maternal well-being. Furthermore, it incorporates concrete measures to reduce the barriers women face when rejoining their professional activities postpartum.

San Luis Potosí Breastfeeding Law: Established Rights and Conditions

The Breastfeeding Law in San Luis Potosí regulates the availability of private and suitable spaces for breastfeeding in workplaces and public areas. These spaces must ensure hygiene, privacy, comfort, tranquility, and accessibility.

Likewise, the law delineates the responsibilities of public and private institutions, reinforcing the protection of the rights of breastfeeding women and their right to make informed decisions about their children’s nutrition.

Mandatory Lactation Rooms in Public Entities

In its transitional provisions, the law stipulates that entities of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches, as well as constitutionally autonomous bodies, must install lactation rooms, following an internal assessment.

Each institution will be responsible for covering the necessary human, material, and financial resources, charged to its own budget and subject to its financial availability.

The State, through the Secretaría de Salud (Secretariat of Health), will annually propose to the Federation the installation of human milk banks and lactation rooms in hospitals and maternal and child care centers.

According to the Congress, these actions aim to strengthen early childhood care and expand access to safe infant nutrition alternatives.

Breastfeeding Benefits Backed by Medical Evidence

The law incorporates evidence supported by WHO and Unicef, which identify breastfeeding as one of the most effective preventive interventions. Its benefits include the prevention of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, obesity, diabetes, leukemia, allergies, childhood cancer, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

For mothers, breastfeeding contributes to postpartum recovery and reduces risks of depression, breast and ovarian cancer, type II diabetes, hypertension, anemia, and osteoporosis.