Sentences with phrase «breastfeeding as a cultural norm»

They are a global network that works to promote breastfeeding as a cultural norm and to encourage all mothers to breastfeed.

Cadwell, Karin & Cindy Turner - Maffei RECLAIMING BREASTFEEDING FOR THE UNITED STATES Jones and Bartlett, 2002 This book provides an international policy perspective on the progress that has been made toward reclaiming breastfeeding as the cultural norm in the United States.

Members Support the Organizational Mission: To protect, promote and support breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

As a condition of membership in the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition, you agree to support the mission of the Coalition to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

With your help, the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition will help to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth.

Promote breastfeeding as a cultural norm and encourage family and societal support for breastfeeding.

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The American Academy of Family Physicians recommends that breastfeeding continue throughout the first year of life and that «As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.

«As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.

Pamela Morrison's interest in HIV and breastfeeding arose from having worked as a private practice IBCLC in a country where HIV - prevalence amongst pregnant women reached 25 %, yet breastfeeding was both the cultural norm and a cornerstone of child survival.

Not only is there a huge social push away from this type of breastfeeding, but even finding women who are exclusively breastfeeding at six months is difficult as our cultural norms are so very far from our biological norms.

For the record, the American Academy of Family Physicians has said: «As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.

In global terms, breastfeeding is normal, whereas because only 8 % of the world's babies are born in countries where bottle - feeding is the cultural norm [10] some might describe bottle - feeding as a «traditional harmful practice of the minority,» as set out in the Innocenti Declaration [11].

These authors talk about bedsharing as the cultural and physiological norm for human infants, particularly in the context of breastfeeding.