Please note: Oops, my bad! Currier apparently is taking the exam over two days AND getting additional break time. Seems like a lot to me. Thanks for clarifying, Erika! -Elisa

Sophie Currier, the Harvard student who requested additional time during the nine-hour medical licensing exam to pump milk for her four-month-old daughter, just won an appeals court decision. She will be allowed an additional 60 minutes of break time to take the test.

I know we debated whether the 45 minutes was sufficient -- it seemed like it was -- but Currier’s demands made sense in this Associated Press article:

But (Judge) Katzmann said that amount of break time was "insufficient" for Currier to nurse her baby, properly express breast milk, eat, drink and use the restroom over the course of the nine-hour exam.

Without extra break time, Currier would have to choose between pumping breast milk and ignoring her bodily functions or foregoing pumping and causing herself significant pain, the judge said.

"Under either avenue, (Currier) is placed at significant disadvantage in comparison to her peers," Katzmann wrote in his 26-page ruling.

Forty-five minutes for a 9-hour exam doesn’t seem like much when you take into consideration eating and using the bathroom. I know I am starving all the time when I am nursing. And since I just delivered a baby, I always have to use the bathroom, too.

I think this is a good precedent to set. Hopefully, it trickles down to other industries.