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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.
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| 5271 | Sun May 12 08:37:50 EDT 2013 | Michelle Devlin | Portland, TN | |
| 5270 | Mon Apr 29 13:37:20 EDT 2013 | Carol D'Alessio | Wilmington, DE | |
| 5269 | Wed Apr 17 13:38:47 EDT 2013 | Tannyka Coleman | Baltimore, MD | |
| 5268 | Tue Apr 09 06:43:43 EDT 2013 | Monselue Perez | Bronx, NY | I am an IBCLC and NICU nurse. I find it sad when I listen to the breastfeeding teachings that go on in my MCH unit... |
| 5267 | Mon Apr 01 12:21:51 EDT 2013 | Tonya Saffer | Silver Spring, MD | Normalizing public breastfeeding is a very important barrier to overcome. Trying to stay modest while feeding is very difficult and uncomfortable for mom and baby. We need to make breast baring for feeding More.... |
| 5266 | Tue Mar 26 01:22:33 EDT 2013 | Anonymous | Roanoke, VA | |
| 5265 | Wed Mar 13 21:57:54 EDT 2013 | Stacy Rosales | Kokomo, IN | |
| 5264 | Thu Mar 07 21:44:26 EST 2013 | Nicole McIntyre | Madison, CT | |
| 5263 | Thu Mar 07 20:46:30 EST 2013 | Anonymous | Morton, Ms., MS | |
| 5262 | Sun Feb 24 00:59:39 EST 2013 | Alison Bettinson | Olympia, WA | |
| 5261 | Mon Feb 18 22:06:31 EST 2013 | Anonymous | Mountain Brk, AL | This is especially essential for the State off Alabama. The need to improve the health of our children (future adults) and birthing mothers would put remove the state from ranking in the last 5 More.... |
| 5260 | Mon Feb 18 22:06:01 EST 2013 | Anonymous | Mountain Brk, AL | This is especially essential for the State off Alabama. The need to improve the health of our children (future adults) and birthing mothers would put remove the state from ranking in the last 5 More.... |
| 5259 | Thu Feb 14 10:49:54 EST 2013 | Gretchen Lupica | Salt Lake City, UT | |
| 5258 | Thu Jan 31 15:28:45 EST 2013 | Rebekah Camacho | New York, NY | |
| 5257 | Thu Jan 31 11:41:55 EST 2013 | Kim Fulbright | Cincinnati, OH | |
| 5256 | Thu Jan 31 11:40:07 EST 2013 | Natalie McCullen | Muncy , PA | |
| 5255 | Fri Jan 25 22:02:31 EST 2013 | Bonnie Theel | Columbus, GA | |
| 5254 | Fri Jan 25 21:15:49 EST 2013 | Patrick Martinez | Hopkinsville, KY | |
| 5253 | Fri Jan 25 20:53:09 EST 2013 | Grace Ludtke | Greensboro, NC | I am a breastfeeding mother and support breastfeeding education and support for nursing mothers. |
| 5252 | Fri Jan 25 19:10:27 EST 2013 | Jackie Bunting | Greensboro, NC | |
| 5251 | Thu Jan 24 17:56:22 EST 2013 | Amy Ruthven | phelps, NY | I am a breastfeeding mom and believe me it would save alot of wic dollars to get people to breastfeed and just one box of formula is like12 dollars and only last like a week |
| 5250 | Thu Jan 24 10:49:53 EST 2013 | Bethany Stewart | Blacksburg, VA | |
| 5249 | Thu Jan 24 10:18:52 EST 2013 | Michelle Arter | Germantown, MD | |
| 5248 | Thu Jan 24 06:59:40 EST 2013 | Wendy spivey | Spring Hill, FL | |
| 5247 | Wed Jan 23 17:39:57 EST 2013 | Dianne Gray | La Grande, OR | Breastfeeding is a building block to preventing obesity. Breastfeeding: A vision for the Future! will help prevent obesity as well as the many other preventable health complications as a result of obesity, More.... |