An Australian senator made history on Tuesday when she brought her daughter to work.
Sen. Larissa Waters breastfed her 2-month-old daughter, Alia Joy, during a vote on the Parliament floor in Australia.
Alia became the "first baby to be breastfed in the federal Parliament" in the country, the senator tweeted.
"Women are going to continue to have babies, and if they want to do their job and be at work and look after their baby ... the reality is we are going to have to accommodate that," Katy Gallagher, an Australian politician, told the Telegraph.
According to the Telegraph, Australian Senate guidelines were changed in 2016 to allow parents to "briefly care for their infants on the floor of parliament." The previous policy allowed breastfeeding, but only in the chamber, The Telegraph reported.
Icelandic politician Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttir made headlines last year after she breastfed her daughter while speaking to Parliament in October.
"She was hungry, and I had not expected to go to the pulpit," Konráðsdóttir, who is chair of the parliamentary Judicial Affairs and Education Committee said at the time, according to The Independent. "Then another MP (member of Parliament) was giving statements on a bill that I put forward on the behalf of the Judicial Affairs Committee, to which I had to respond. So I either had to tear the baby girl off me and leave her crying with the MP sitting next to me or just take her with me, and I thought it would cause less disturbance to take her with me."
Read more at the Telegraph.
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