Not exact matches
It should seem obvious that, given that we're in the business of providing absolutely everything for babies, we totally
support breastfeeding (and all feeding
choices — babies got ta eat!).
Breastfeeding is a
choice — not the right
choice for everyone, but a valid one — and it's a
choice loaded down with a lot of social pressure that generally doesn't come along with very much social
support.
I think we need to
support whatever
choice moms make:
breastfeeding, formula feeding, exclusive pumping.
Rebecca H. McCormick, Fairfax, Oakton, VA, USA Photo: Charlotte Southren Unwittingly, the author of the opinion post «My Body, My
Choice» paraphrased the mission of La Leche League: «Every woman who wants to
breastfeed should be able to do so, with full medical, legal and social
support.»
They will also feel
supported in their
choice to continue
breastfeeding after maternity leave which makes the transition period easier to manage.
«UNICEF strives to create an environment that enables the best
choices in infant and young child feeding practices by
supporting the
breastfeeding and complementary feeding efforts of partner countries and our NGO colleagues at three levels: improving national regulation and oversight, enhancing the knowledge and skills of health personnel, and increasing success in the community by providing
support for each new mother to make the best
choices in feeding her children».
Heh... I'm not sure how
supporting breastfeeding correlates with the
choice to have children and don't do it if you can't afford it...
This can be especially true for
breastfeeding mothers when their families or friends don't know how to
support their
choice to
breastfeed.
While some mothers wanted to
breastfeed those babies, little was done to encourage or
support that
choice.
We can tell from your your tweets, and your business
choice, that you love
supporting breastfeeding.
I
support you in your
choice to
breastfeed, in public, in private, and for as many months or years as you want to.
In
support of WBW2014 we are offering two lucky winners one of our
breastfeeding reminder brooches in their
choice of colour, subject to availability.
The Baby - Friendly Initiative acknowledges that
breastfeeding is the healthiest
choice for mothers and infants, and those families need to be
supported to make informed feeding decisions without the influence of formula marketing.
In the case of
breastfeeding, that means accurate information and
support for their
choice.
I felt like my husband was
supporting OUR
choice to
breastfeed in this small way.
Perhaps the largest role API plays in
supporting breastfeeding mothers is in actively
supporting their
choice.
Through a voluntary commitment, hospitals provide additional
support to
breastfeeding mothers and minimize practices that can interfere with that
choice such as supplementing
breastfeeding infants with formula, unless medically indicated or at the mother's specific request.
10 Steps to
Support Parents
Choice to
Breastfeed Their Baby.
Breastfeeding is mostly regarded as a woman's personal choice and the government has been slow to engage in breastfeeding promotion, support
Breastfeeding is mostly regarded as a woman's personal
choice and the government has been slow to engage in
breastfeeding promotion, support
breastfeeding promotion,
support and research.
Baby Milk Action recommends that mothers who wish to introduce feeding bottles look to independent information from NHS
Choices and mother
support groups as these provide facts on the possible impact on
breastfeeding of introducing bottles and how best to do so.
Some parents feel as though society is side - eyeing them for not nursing their babies; Others feel that they have not been given the
support they need to have a successful
breastfeeding relationship with their baby and they're struggling as a result; Others still feel defiantly proud of their
choice in how to feed their child because they've had so many naysayers tell them they can't or shouldn't.
Yes, they are supposed to
support you when
breastfeeding, but it is horrible when you are not
breastfeeding, and you have to go through the talk about it several times with someone who says in one breath they can't believe that their sister in law didn't stick with
breastfeeding because in most cases there is no real reason not to, and in the next says that it is your
choice, and she is not going to judge you about it.
I understand that
breastfeeding a child who is 2 years old isn't for everyone, and I fully
support other women's
choices in how long they
breastfeed for, but
breastfeeding my triplets for 2 years has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life and I am proud of myself and very happy that it continues.
Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive
breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued
breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive
breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
breastfeeding and
breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful
breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of
breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of
choice through antenatal counselling and education and
breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve
breastfeeding breastfeeding difficulties.
And that's why I'm placing
support — not
choice — at the center of my
breastfeeding advocacy.
But when we focus on
support, we can see the myriad reasons why the
choice not to
breastfeed deserves our
support.
Let's shift our focus from the individual
choices of women and put our energies into examining how we as a nation can better
support a culture that promotes
breastfeeding.
Practice Update: HIV and
breastfeeding - Morrison P. - Essentially MIDIRS, August 2014; 5 (7): 38 - 9, available at page 38 HIV and breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13, Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
breastfeeding - Morrison P. - Essentially MIDIRS, August 2014; 5 (7): 38 - 9, available at page 38 HIV and
breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13, Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13,
Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P -
Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about
breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed
choice in infant feeding decisions can be
supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and
Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014
Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
Breastfeeding with HIV, is breast still best?
Where women get accurate information about
breastfeeding and formula feeding and are allowed to make the
choice (if they have one) that's best for their families and then
supported, no matter what that decision is.
Breastfeeding isn't just a lifestyle
choice or another way to get food into babies, it is the biological norm for nurturing babies and
supporting their overall growth and development and helps make healthy families and communities.
More than his
supporting me in my
choice to
breastfeed, he also put me at ease when I nursed in public.
And absolutely, the problem is SO MUCH BIGGER than one person's
choices: the amount of misinformation floating around out there (and the amount of it that comes from otherwise intelligent, highly trained medical professionals), the lack of help and
support for new nursing moms, the lack of adequate maternity leave in the US (in Canada, where I live, one can take up to 50 weeks» leave with unemployment pay), the persistent idea that dads «need» to bottle - feed their babies in order to bond with them, the idea that formula is «normal» and
breastfeeding is «best» — in some places it really seems like you'd need a will of iron to keep at it when the going gets tough.
La Leche League Leaders have been
supporting women and their
breastfeeding choices since 1956 and have spread from seven women serving their community to an international organization serving 65 countries.
At CHRISTUS Health we
support your
choice to
breastfeed.
BFUSA believes: (1) human milk fed through direct
breastfeeding is the optimal way for human infants to be nurtured and nourished; (2) the precious first days should be protected as a time of bonding and
support not influenced by commercial interests; and (3) every mother should be informed about the benefits of
breastfeeding and respected to make her own
choice.
However, as a society, we can
support their
choices by making sure that everyone has access to reliable information and by creating a positive environment so that
breastfeeding mothers aren't subject to social stigmas or value judgements for doing what, after all, is only natural.
Women are empowered and
supported to
breastfeed and make
choices about how to nourish their children in a way that is free from predatory marketing and commercial influence.
While it's not always easy to
breastfeed and we
support every
choice, we hope to help make it a bit easier for new moms with advice from the experts and from real moms like you.
Our intention was to promote the importance of
breastfeeding and good nutrition throughout pregnancy and in early life, and ways of
supporting parents with their feeding
choices.
Our table below looks at the
choice of
breastfeeding support so that you can find the most appropriate
support for you and your baby.
It is time to properly
support women in their
choice to
breastfeed their babies.
For all of these reasons, Milkies also
supports breastfeeding as the optimal feeding
choice for both mom and baby, and is committed to developing products that help moms reach their
breastfeeding goals.
He also fully
supports breastfeeding and my
choices in the way I birth and the way I mother.
API: How do you offer
support to mothers
breastfeeding a toddler or older child who feel isolated and unsupported in their
choices, and who may be reconsidering those
choices?
This week, API's celebration of World
Breastfeeding Week will honor a collection of inspiring mothers who are dedicated to supporting mothers in breastfeeding no matter their lifes
Breastfeeding Week will honor a collection of inspiring mothers who are dedicated to
supporting mothers in
breastfeeding no matter their lifes
breastfeeding no matter their lifestyle
choices.
La Leche League International is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, non-sectarian, organization that has been
supporting families and their
breastfeeding choices since 1956 - and we've been active in Kansas since 1960.
A move towards Baby Friendly hospitals across the state would greatly increase the opportunity for greater education and
support for ongoing
breastfeeding as the natural
choice for infant feeding.
Breastfeeding is a combination of choice and circumstance, and when we point an accusatory finger at mother's who are not breastfeeding, implying that they are not trying hard enough, or that they are not taking care of their baby, we are isolating and guilting the very women who
Breastfeeding is a combination of
choice and circumstance, and when we point an accusatory finger at mother's who are not
breastfeeding, implying that they are not trying hard enough, or that they are not taking care of their baby, we are isolating and guilting the very women who
breastfeeding, implying that they are not trying hard enough, or that they are not taking care of their baby, we are isolating and guilting the very women who need
support.
I'm also looking for
support as no one I know agrees with my
choices pertaining to
breastfeeding...
At WIC, moms get pre-natal health care referrals and the
breastfeeding support they need; babies and young children get pediatric and immunization referrals; parents and grandparents are empowered with nutrition tools and resources to make the healthy
choices for their children.