This is an older article but helps in this season to help choose the best gifts that mothers really want and need.
This article gives links tomany other sites about great gifts as well.
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The smallest state will make big news today by announcing that it’s first state to ditch the formula “gift bags” provided at many hospitals.
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Source:http://mommymolecules.blogspot.com/2010/07/web-comic-boob-in-bottle.html
Whether pumping at work, pumping at home for the occasional night out, or pumping to protect milk production while managing breastfeeding challenges, many mothers these days use a breast pump at some point during their nursing relationship. Regardless of the reason, it’s important to have good information, so below are tips to help you ensure that things go smoothly.
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Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest integrated health care system caring for mothers and babies, announced today its commitment to support breastfeeding as a measure of hospital quality and a key strategy in preventing childhood obesity. By 2013, its 29 hospitals that offer maternal and child health services will be designated as Baby-Friendly, and/or participate in The Joint Commission’s Perinatal Core Measures program, which includes a measure of exclusive breastfeeding at discharge.
The announcement came at the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) inaugural summit in Washington, DC. PHA is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization led by some of the nation’s most respected health and childhood obesity experts. It was created in 2010 in conjunction with — but independent from — First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! effort to bring together public, private and nonprofit leaders to broker meaningful commitments and develop strategies to end childhood obesity.
In January, The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding called on health care providers to ensure that maternity care practices are fully supportive of breastfeeding; Kaiser Permanente has answered that call. USBC applauds the leadership and commitment of Kaiser Permanente to the health and well-being of the mothers and babies it serves.
A new article, published on the Women’s E-News site, reports on the relationship between the WIC program and formula companies. It was written in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.
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A woman has the legal right in Nevada to breastfeed in any public or private place she’s allowed to have her baby, even ifshe is uncovered and her nipple shows somewhere in the process. Such is the law in many states, though each has their own wording and may or may not say anything about nipples or protection from ‘indecent exposure.’
Many states’ individual WIC programs are coming up with and releasing their own breastfeeding campaigns. I think it’s awesome to have so many unique ones instead of a national campaign. So much creativity that way!
However, the video that Nevada’s WIC department released didn’t so much make me smile as almost wince.
Read rest and to watch video-The Stir
A while back I interviewed Pauline Sakamoto, director of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, on the Motherlove Blog. She talked about the increase in demand for donor milk over the last ten years, and how milk banks sometimes struggle to meet the demand.
But recently, as hospitals have rapidly been changing their policies to make donor milk the standard of care for preterm babies under certain gestational ages and weights, the rate of increase has become even steeper.
Read more-The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog
This is a one-page summary that we created to send to our celebrity champions for moms, the media and other key influencers that can help us raise awareness of this cause, change the public perception of breastfeeding, and join us in putting pressure on the Booby Traps, not moms. It is not comprehensive, it is a snapshot of the urgency of this issue. Printable PDF version is available here: BfB State of US Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding, like exercise, is one of the most highly preventive and cost-effective ways to protect the health of mothers, babies, the population, and the planet. Yet, the U.S. has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding among industrialized countries and one of the highest rates of infant mortality. Our rates of breast cancer, diabetes, obesity, and asthma are growing at an alarming pace. It is estimated that normal breastfeeding rates could save the U.S. $13 billion and 911 lives annually on health care & associated costs for just 10 diseases. Suffering & anguish is epidemic.
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The November 2011 Issue of the eNews is now available. Please Click here to view this month’s issue.
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Sincerely
USLCA Board of Directors
Laurie Beck, RN, MSN, IBCLC, RLC
Karen Querna, RN, BSN, IBCLC, RLC
Alisa Sanders, RN, IBCLC, RLC, CCE
Marsha Walker,RN, IBCLC, RLC
Barbara Robertson, BA, MA, IBCLC, RLC
Debi Ferrarello, RN, MS, IBCLC
Regina Camillieri, IBCLC, RLC
This course is designed for the Lactation Consultant or nurse/midwife practitioner who cares for mothers and babies in the first few weeks postpartum. You will study normal bilirubin metabolism, noting how it is related to normal physiological and breastmilk jaundice and how this process can move from a normal, protective function to pathological jaundice. The practitioners’ role in preventing, or diagnosing and managing pathological jaundice will be examined with particular focus on the role of breastmilk and breastfeeding. Read More→
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