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Sign On to Support Breastfeeding: A Vision for the Future!
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Please sign on below to add your support to Breastfeeding: A Vision for the Future. Based on evidence, the Vision highlights the many facets of breastfeeding support needed to ensure that all women are able to reach their breastfeeding goals. We know that a woman’s ability to breastfeed is constrained by a range of social, environmental, and institutional obstacles. Far from being a matter of choice, breastfeeding is simply not accessible for many mothers and families. Add your voice below to demand action from all sectors of U.S. society! |
The Vision is aimed to increase awareness of the importance of breastfeeding and these nine crucial objectives that must be met in order to fully address the barriers faced by mothers:
1. Meet and exceed the Healthy People objectives to increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed.
2. Implement maternity care practices that foster normal birth and breastfeeding in every facility that cares for childbearing women.
3. Ensure that health care providers provide evidence-based, culturally competent birth and breastfeeding care.
4. Create and foster work environments that support breastfeeding mothers.
5. Ensure that all federal, state, and local laws relating to child welfare and family law recognize the importance of breastfeeding and support its practice.
6. Implement curricula that teach students of all ages that breastfeeding is the normal and preferred method of feeding infants and young children.
7. Reduce the barriers to breastfeeding imposed by the marketing of human milk substitutes.
8. Protect a woman’s right to breastfeed in public.
9. Encourage greater social support for breastfeeding as a vital public health strategy.
1. Meet and exceed the Healthy People objectives to increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed.
2. Implement maternity care practices that foster normal birth and breastfeeding in every facility that cares for childbearing women.
3. Ensure that health care providers provide evidence-based, culturally competent birth and breastfeeding care.
4. Create and foster work environments that support breastfeeding mothers.
5. Ensure that all federal, state, and local laws relating to child welfare and family law recognize the importance of breastfeeding and support its practice.
6. Implement curricula that teach students of all ages that breastfeeding is the normal and preferred method of feeding infants and young children.
7. Reduce the barriers to breastfeeding imposed by the marketing of human milk substitutes.
8. Protect a woman’s right to breastfeed in public.
9. Encourage greater social support for breastfeeding as a vital public health strategy.
This petition has a goal of
15000 signatures
1-25
of 4898 signatures
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| Number | Date | Name | Location | Add your personal comments ... |
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| 4898 | Tue May 15 20:01:03 EDT 2012 | Marie Fitzpatrick | Philadelphia, PA | We need to join the rest of the world and initiate paid maternity leave for at least one year. |
| 4897 | Sat May 12 23:39:14 EDT 2012 | Melisa Rivera | Elmira, CA | |
| 4896 | Sat May 12 21:57:19 EDT 2012 | Zersh Altork | Boynton Beach, FL | |
| 4895 | Mon Apr 23 23:57:11 EDT 2012 | Anonymous | Stamford, CT | |
| 4894 | Thu Apr 19 05:34:39 EDT 2012 | Tiaira Jones | Collierville, TN | I am the mother of a 9 month old and breastfeeding and going through a messy divorce. Although we've only been married 9 months and have only lived together for 2 weeks before separating, the courts are More.... |
| 4893 | Wed Apr 18 23:14:47 EDT 2012 | Jennifer Reimer | Owasso, OK | |
| 4892 | Wed Apr 18 23:14:47 EDT 2012 | Jennifer Reimer | Owasso, OK | |
| 4891 | Tue Apr 17 17:58:17 EDT 2012 | Bethany Landgraff | Lancaster, PA | I am a Registered Nurse as well as a International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). I have my own private practice in which I offer in-home breastfeeding support (www.babyfusion.org) More.... |
| 4890 | Thu Apr 12 11:53:35 EDT 2012 | Justin Walker | Kennett, MO | |
| 4889 | Thu Apr 12 10:28:37 EDT 2012 | Justin Walker | Kennett, MO | |
| 4888 | Sat Apr 07 12:42:55 EDT 2012 | Angel Knight | Bronx , NY | (B.M.I.B). The disparities of health Care in low income communities has certainly played a role in moms not choosing the best source of nourishment to provide for their infants. However with women More.... |
| 4887 | Mon Apr 02 16:46:27 EDT 2012 | Anonymous | WOODBRIDGE, VA | |
| 4886 | Sat Mar 31 08:30:51 EDT 2012 | Lindsey heiger | Wilmington , DE | |
| 4885 | Wed Mar 21 08:52:04 EDT 2012 | shirley scuderi | holyoke, MA | |
| 4884 | Sat Mar 17 00:37:02 EDT 2012 | Nina Simpson | West Monroe, LA | Health professionals must encourage and be able to direct a breastfeeding woman to appropriate care. Hospitals MUST BE KNOWLEDGEABLE in breastfeeding to provide that support to their new breastfeeding More.... |
| 4883 | Wed Mar 14 08:45:15 EDT 2012 | Catrina Carter | Martinsburg, WV | |
| 4882 | Thu Feb 23 10:11:15 EST 2012 | Sabra Ramos | Tomball, TX | Thank goodness we could afford a good double electric pump with our first child; having one is the only way a working mother can be successful at exclusively breastfeeding for the first year. Somthing More.... |
| 4881 | Tue Feb 14 15:06:02 EST 2012 | Annie Kennedy | Kenmore, WA | |
| 4880 | Wed Feb 08 15:15:09 EST 2012 | sarah johnson | odenton, MD | |
| 4879 | Wed Feb 01 23:23:40 EST 2012 | Michelle Goodwin | Brockton, MA | Breastfeeding is so amazing and rewarding! Everyone should recognize that it is one of the most natural acts in the world. No woman should have to feel embarassed about feeding her baby and giving him/her More.... |
| 4878 | Wed Feb 01 22:21:29 EST 2012 | Kendra Rogers | Waterford, MI | |
| 4877 | Wed Feb 01 20:34:56 EST 2012 | Jenna Murphy | Las Vegas, NV | The more breastfeeding is "normalized" again, the more(and the longer) mothers will nurse their babies if they knew they wouldn't fear public discrimination/humiliation. Loving support makes breastfeeding More.... |
| 4876 | Wed Feb 01 15:13:20 EST 2012 | Megan Tiemeier | Grapevine, TX | With all the research regarding the benefits of breastfeeding for children, mothers, and society; it just makes sense to support breastfeeding. |
| 4875 | Wed Feb 01 14:30:52 EST 2012 | Sharon Peabody | Ellicott City, MD | |
| 4874 | Wed Feb 01 13:43:51 EST 2012 | Sarah West | Virginia Beach, VA | Breast milk is the first choice of nutrition for an infant/toddler. It is a beautiful act and needs to be publicly acknowledged as such. We need to start re-educating people about breasts and their TRUE More.... |