It’s not just American breastfeeding mothers who have had to fight for their rights to express breastmilk on the job.
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Breastfeeding is the optimal way to satisfy an infant's nutritional and emotional needs. "Bottle Nursing" adapts breastfeeding behaviors to bottle-feeding to help initiate a secure attachment. Follow the feeding cues for both infants and children, encouraging them to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. Offer healthy food choices and model healthy eating behavior.
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There is no place for even a mention of a bathroom in the same sentence as breastfeeding or pumping. The fact that there are still people — and so many of them, too! — that direct mothers to breastfeed or pump in a restroom is astounding. |
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Mississippi Sen. Hillman Frazier (D-Jackson) is standing up for breastfeeding in perhaps the boldest way yet: proposing a fine for not allowing a mother to breastfeed her child. |
Despite the couple’s celebrity status, her daily life is filled mostly with taking care of their three young children. She is also focused on bringing attention to issues facing women and girls. |
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""We were surprised by our findings because of the high number of centers that indicated they would follow ahuman-milk feeding plan, but a large number of them didn' Read more |
"New study finds supervisor, co-worker attitudes, comments matter more than employer accommodations." |
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"Photographer Jen Pan speaks out about workplace discrimination against nursing moms." |
"Other mothers, she found, were going through the same thing. Many lacked the family support systems that previous generations had — the grandmothers and aunts who could advise and assist — largely owing to changing social patterns. |
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I took a breastfeeding support call a few years ago from a woman who was spending a week in a county jail but wasn't being allowed to use her breast pump. |
"Michelle Devlin, a leader with the La Leche League, says it's a practice that is as natural as giving birth. |
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