We are meeting Saturday, March 19th from 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM at the Family Practice Building at UNC with free parking available at the door. A Mid-South Lactation Consultant Association meeting will follow that is open to anyone interested in breastfeeding whether or not they are an IBCLC.
Please enter by the upstairs door. If you arrive after our starting time, please call Ellen Chetwynd’s cell phone at 919-548-6087 for help to get in.
919-966-9451 is the conference phone number. Please be aware that it is not a toll-free number, but hopefully many people will have free long distance on the weekends. If you cannot get through, call Ellen’s cell phone at 919-548-6087 or mine at 919 801-0580.
If you are interested in order a take-out lunch, please bring cash.
At the end of this email, you will see several attachments to this meeting reminder.
1. Directions
2. Revised meeting minutes. You will notice there are Action Items to help us all remember what we volunteered to do!
3. Agenda
4. National WIC Association (NWA) Agenda and NWA Six Steps Breastfeeding Plan for Clinics which Catherine Sullivan has asked us to review.
5. Summary of the US Surgeon General’s CTA for us to review and use in thinking about this year’s goals for NCBC.
Here is the list of who was responsible for updating each of our handouts that appear in pdf versions on our website:
o Milk Expression – Diane Upton and Vicki Carlson
o Breastfeeding in Public – Elaina Lee
o Breastfeeding and the Law – Laura Sinai and Catherine Sullivan
o Breastfeeding and the Return to Work – Nancy Register and Elizabeth
o Human Milk Storage – Jill Hartzog
o Breastfeeding and Vitamin B12 – Catherine Sullivan
o Breastfeeding and Vitamin D – Laura Sinai
o Breastfeeding Superiority – Ellen Chetwynd
o Breastfeeding and Sexual Abuse – Emily Taylor
o Breastfeeding and the Abuse Survivor – Emily Taylor
o Breastfeeding and the Flu – Phyllis Kombol
o Breastfeeding and CoSleeping – Miriam Labbok
o Breastfeeding and Birth Control – Miriam Labbok
Elizabeth Woods emailed the handouts to the people who volunteered to update them in a WORD format. They were then to be returned to her for review to ewoods@soulfood4yourbaby.org so they can be turned once again into a pdf format and uploaded to our website. Please email Elizabeth if you have not received yours.
Thank you,
Mary L. Overfield
Mary L. Overfield, MN, RN, IBCLC, Secretary
North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition
11608 Rutledge Bay
Raleigh, NC 27614
mary_overfield@yahoo.com
919 847.4903 phone
919 847.2193 fax











