Sentences with phrase «more women breastfeed in public»

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I'd like to see more women standing up to this and breastfeeding in public.

Breastfeeding is not an easy task in itself and it really is a shame that it is not made more easy for a woman to comfortably feed her baby while in public.

The more women breastfeed without shame in public, the faster it will gain acceptance, in my view:) Babies need to be fed, breastfeeding is their birthright, and the people who think it's «gross» are the ones who need to adjust their attitudes, not us.

That's fantastic, I think we talk a lot about normalizing breastfeeding, and the more women we see breastfeeding in public, the more other women will be inspired, and feel confident to do it as well.

I think women are becoming more comfortable in telling others that they are still nursing older babies so hopefully there will be a shift in attitudes but I have recently «lost» a few facebook followers after posting a status regarding full - term breastfeeding (I think they were most likely from a giveaway I did ages ago and not on the same page re: bf etc) Apart from that, I love telling Mums on the ward (I'm a bf peer supporter) I'm still feeding as it opens their mind to that possibility and I think I look pretty normal so it mostly doesn't freak them out My son is far too busy to nurse out and about and prefers juice so we've not nursed in public (apart from support group) since he was 18 mths and that was as I had a blocked duct!

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

That means no nurses pushing formula, lactation support in the hospital, support for moms in the workplace, cultural norms that allow women to breastfeed in public places without being shamed, and more support among women for dealing with the challenges.

The more that women breastfeed out in the open, the closer we'll get to removing the stigma many moms still face trying to breastfeed their babies at home or in public.

Overall, I think the symbol is a good thing and that the more people who see it and, even on the smallest subconscious level, think of breastfeeding as normal and something that women are going to be doing in public, the better.

But there's more to the public breastfeeding movement than its squeakiest wheels, and believe it or not, even women who have no intention of ever breastfeeding, publicly or otherwise, still have a dog in this fight.

More and more evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding on a cultural, public health, psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and woMore and more evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding on a cultural, public health, psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and womore evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding on a cultural, public health, psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and women.

More than 50 per cent of women believed it would be uncomfortable to breastfeed in public, and a majority of men and women did not want their child to be breastfed in public for fear of embarrassment.