Not exact matches
Fun story: at a birth I did last year in another city south of where I live, I picked up mom's freebie «
breastfeeding support» bag, and then, with her sitting by, watching from her hospital bed as she
breastfed her babe, I helped her methodically remove every
piece of advertising for formula companies it contained.
A
piece of legislation included in ACA requires most health insurance plans to cover the cost of
breastfeeding support and equipment for nursing moms, including the cost of lactation counselors and breast pumps.
You don't know the background of all the moms that are posting and it is so easy to judge, I mean, a mom could be having tons of problems
breastfeeding and coming online to seek
support and then I have seen a lot of
pieces where a lot of moms want to do exclusive pumping and then you get all sorts of comments saying «Oh, why don't you just latch», I mean, it is not so easy.
«I think everyone in the system needs to look at [Johnson's]
piece and say, «How can we create a safe system for
supporting optimal feeding so that moms and babies who want to
breastfeed can do so safely and successfully, and moms and babies who don't want to
breastfeed can have good
support to do that and know how to do that safely?
If there is one
piece of sage wisdom imparted to me from
breastfeeding support that I always pass along, it is to make yourself a «nest» at home.
In honor of
supporting breastfeeding mothers, who nurse their babies of all ages, I am posting one of my favorite
pieces about
breastfeeding, by Diane Wiessinger, MS and International Board Certified Lacatation Consultant (IBCLC).
My # 1 Most Important
piece of
breastfeeding advice is this - build your community of
support as soon as you can.