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Black Breastfeeding Week starts today. We invite black parents, aunties, uncles and grandparents to join the conversation online and off to show our collective power to lift up every baby, every family and every community.
At St. John Hospital the principles of cultural sensitivity and collaboration–and lots of fundraising–have boosted breastfeeding rates by black mothers. Can other initiatives put all this together and follow suit?
Detroit’s Mother Nurture Project connects black mothers with peer breastfeeding counselors who offer support. Here’s how this community-oriented approach is helping.
The recent study finds that maternity centers may be part of the reason behind the country’s racial breastfeeding gap. A film released this week, in honor of Black Breastfeeding Week, is aimed at changing the trend.
Seventy communities in the United States will receive a total of $2.9 million in federal funds to support breastfeeding. Also this week, India’s federal cabinet voted to bar same-sex couples from adopting children.
Chile has taken steps to decriminalize abortion under certain circumstances. Also, during a press call this week, activists highlighted how the LGBT community is at risk in developing countries.
When a mother posted a photo of herself nursing at her college graduation on a breastfeeding Facebook page, a flurry of disapproval quickly ignited all over social media. Questions are being raised about how public breastfeeding should be.
A breastfeeding association has released a new video, joining several efforts over the past few years to raise the volume on the hindrances to breastfeeding in the black community nationwide.
Undercutting the American Academy of Pediatrics’ stance on promoting breastfeeding, an infant-formula maker’s bag, given by hospitals for free to new mothers, is emblazoned with the academy’s logo inside and out.
More than half of the youngest children in the Indian state of Jharkhand are stunted by chronic malnutrition. UNICEF-trained breastfeeding counselors in several states are helping to change that in meetings with neighbors about the nutritional benefits of mother’s milk.