"Black Breastfeeding Week was created because for over 40 years there has been a gaping racial disparity in breastfeeding rates. The most recent CDC data show that 75% of white women have ever breastfed versus 58.9% of black women.
Feed with Love and Respect
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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"Breastfeeding has immense health benefits for babies and their mothers," says CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden. "More hospitals are better supporting new moms to breastfeed - every newborn should have the best possible start in life." |
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"There were no lactation rooms or dedicated spaces for breastfeeding mothers when Tara Ruby was on active duty in the Air Force from 1997 to 2001. After her first son was born, Ruby remembers ducking into empty offices and bathrooms -- anywhere sh Read more |
"To produce breast milk, mothers melt their own body fat. Are you with me? We literally dissolve parts of ourselves, starting with gluteal-femoral fat, aka our butts, and turn it into liquid to feed our babies." |
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"Black women are less likely to breastfeed their children than white women (although the gap may be narrowing). They often have an extra layer of the “booby traps” that make breastfeeding inconvenient, difficult, or impossible. |
"Breastfeeding might affect the way babies with a certain genetic makeup perceive other people's emotions, according to a new study." |
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The Department of Health report discovered that mothers in wealthier neighborhoods were 1.6 times more likely to exclusively (only breast milk, not formula) breastfeed for the first five days of their baby’s life than were mothers in poorer neighb Read more |
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If an employee requests workplace accommodations for breastfeeding, what is the financial risk for the employer if they deny the request? Simply put, it can cost more to deny the accommodation than to grant it. |
I received a copy of To Three and Beyond at a critical point in my parenting journey. At the time, I was breastfeeding my third child at 2-1/2 years old. |
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