Sentences with phrase «undermine breastfeeding efforts»

Giving a pacifier occasionally (such as during a circumcision, when baby boys may be given pacifiers with sugar water) is OK and usually won't undermine breastfeeding efforts.

I don't think the point of this policy is to shame moms and starve babies, I think it's to try to turn the tables on existing policies that undermine breastfeeding efforts and make it MORE difficult for even the most motivated moms to begin a successful breastfeeding relationship.

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«I feel it undermines all our efforts to promote breastfeeding, especially in parts of the city where we know levels are too low.

Since then, however, breastfeeding activists have grown increasingly incensed over the new products, saying manufacturers mislead mothers and undermine efforts to promote breast - feeding, which is the consensus gold standard in infant nutrition.

In spite of its critical importance as the cornerstone of child health and survival, aggressive and inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes, and other food products that compete with breastfeeding, continues to mislead parents and undermine efforts by Member States to protect and support children's rights to health and ensure sound objective information.

Yet the widespread use of unsubstantiated marketing messages not only confuses and misleads formula - feeding parents seeking truthful and evidence - based information as to how to safely feed their children, it undermines our current national efforts to support breastfeeding as the human norm.

Considers that the delegated regulation does not contain sufficient provisions to prevent unfair competition with breastfeeding and therefore undermines the International Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes and subsequent WHA Resolutions and MS efforts to implement them effectively;

Whilst the UK has signed up to «the Code», today's report highlights the fact that aggressive and inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes, and other food products that compete with breastfeeding, continues to undermine efforts to improve breastfeeding rates.

More damaging is the common donor impulse to send infant formula or breast milk substitutes to disaster zones, undermining breastfeeding practices already in place and efforts to get new mothers to nurse.

Would Nestlé really try to undermine government and public efforts to normalise breastfeeding with a viral campaign that tells women their breasts are ogled when they go out in public?

Breakthrough also cited the fact that breastfeeding has been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer in mothers, and given that Nestle's efforts undermine breastfeeding, accepting the donation would be counterproductive.

Inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes continues to undermine efforts to improve breastfeeding rates and duration worldwide.

As a result, aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes is undermining efforts to improve breastfeeding rates, with global sales expected to reach a staggering US$ 70.6 billion by 2019 (Paper 2, figure 2).

«We shouldn't be blaming mothers that our rates were so low,» said Bartick, «because mothers are not supported well and their efforts to breastfeed are undermined by such things as poor hospital practices.»