Everyone can help support a mother breastfeeding during Work World

They agree to support mothers’ efforts to choose what is best for their babies and display a window decal that welcomes mothers to their business or organization, Rose said. The nutrition staff in these clinics receive monthly training updates in order to use the proper policies and procedures appropriately to provide basic breastfeeding education to program participants as well as anyone in the community interested in breastfeeding information.

Among the individuals and families strolling through Delaware Park in Buffalo today were some who were there to raise awareness of breastfeeding and its benefits for both baby and mother.

The World Breastfeeding Week is observed every year since 1991 from August 1 to 7.

This year, as part of the celebrations, 10M2 of Love, a campaign initiated in 2013 by UNICEF and the National Centre for Women and Children’s Health, will be promoted and expand to include new partners. “It lowers her risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, heart disease, there’s many reasons to breastfeed”. More than 20 businesses in Barton County have endorsed “Breastfeeding Welcome Here”. The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore is consistently named in U.S. News’ “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals”. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, and Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, are working on legislation to protect pregnant women and nursing mothers in the work place.

“As a community, it is our responsibility to support breastfeeding mothers everywhere as it is the healthiest option for the baby”, says Bruno. Breastfed children fall sick less often, so their mothers are absent from work less often, too.

More than 90 percent of new mothers in Oregon start out breastfeeding, according to the Oregon Health Authority.

“Before being elected to the House, I saw the great benefit the Affordable Care Act provided in requiring employers with more than 50 employees to provide a private, sanitary space for mothers to express milk up to a year after birth”, Daley said. There are three necessary factors that determine success in breastfeeding for working moms: time, space and support. “The bill also prohibits employers from denying employment opportunities to women based on their need for reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions”. She cited research showing the importance of breastfeeding support throughout the community, not in just the health department or hospital.

Breastfeeding can have many benefits for babies like helping strengthen their immune system, but getting comfortable with breastfeeding can take practice and persistence for new moms and their newborns.