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Breastfeeding Petition to President Obama
Sign on below to ask President Barack Obama to make breastfeeding a high priority in his administration. This Web tool will allow USBC to compile signatures from supporters all across the United States to submit to the new administration.
Dear President Obama:
There is virtually universal agreement among health care experts that, with rare exceptions, breastfeeding is the optimal method of feeding all infants, sick as well as healthy, preterm as well as full term. In addition to the myriad health benefits provided to mother and infant, breastfeeding provides significant economic and environmental benefits for families, employers, and society by reducing health care expenses, eliminating the need to purchase expensive formula, and reducing absenteeism from work to care for sick infants. Excess health care costs totaling more than $4 billion must be paid by the U.S. health care system each year to treat otitis media, gastroenteritis, and necrotizing enterocolitis--childhood diseases and conditions preventable or reduced by breastfeeding. When prevention of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions is factored in, the potential economic benefits of breastfeeding are significantly greater.
Given all of these benefits, the United States Breastfeeding Committee joins the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in recommending that infants be exclusively breastfed for six months, and continue to breastfeed for the first year of life and as long afterward as mutually desired by the mother and infant. Yet only a handful of states are currently meeting the federal government’s own Healthy People 2010 breastfeeding targets. Additionally, significant disparities in breastfeeding continue to exist, with non-Hispanic black and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups experiencing lower breastfeeding rates.
Obviously, more needs to be done to ensure the achievement of our national breastfeeding goals and to create an environment where women and their families can be successful in achieving their personal breastfeeding goals. You have the power to take immediate and concrete action to improve the Nation’s health by protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding. We urge you to use your position of leadership and power to set the tone in the federal government to place a high priority on breastfeeding as an essential public health issue.
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| Number | Date | Name | Location | Add a personal comment to your signature (optional). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13040 | November 20, 2009 | Cynthia Ballard | Columbia, SC | |
| 13039 | November 19, 2009 | max bernardi stachowicz | shoreham, NY | My Mom Exclusively Breastfed Me. Rock On La Leche League Moms And Babies! Annaliese Dettleff, Max*s Mother |
| 13038 | November 19, 2009 | Kendra Hansard | Davie, FL | I personal breastfed my oldest daughter until she was over 2 years old, and am now breastfeeding my 15 month old. I allow them to decide when it is time to stop. WEAN is a FOUR Letter Word!!!
There needs to be stricter laws protecting breastfeeding mothers and their children when divorce and separation are inevitable! No one should be allowed to tell any mother that she cannot breastfeed or her child that they are not allowed to breastfeed! |
| 13037 | November 19, 2009 | Shameka Monroe | Columbia, SC | |
| 13036 | November 18, 2009 | Jentri Jollimore | West Swanzey, NH | |
| 13035 | November 18, 2009 | Val Snowdon | Keene, NH | |
| 13034 | November 18, 2009 | liz pacilio | dublin, NH | |
| 13033 | November 18, 2009 | Caroline Kenney | West Hills, CA | |
| 13032 | November 18, 2009 | Amber Vazquez | Blythewood, SC | |
| 13031 | November 18, 2009 | Stephanie Milotte | sullivan, NH | I have two daughters and have been blessed to be able to breast feed them both. Breastfeeding is such a foundation to start our children off with... Thanks to all of the supporters out there... |
| 13030 | November 18, 2009 | Tara Sullivan | Hudson, MA | |
| 13029 | November 18, 2009 | Angela Church | West Chesterfield, NH | |
| 13028 | November 17, 2009 | Emily Grier | Peterborough, NH | |
| 13027 | November 17, 2009 | jessica howard | Keene, NH | |
| 13026 | November 17, 2009 | Stephanie Ritchie | Stoddard, NH | |
| 13025 | November 17, 2009 | Raina White | San Antonio, TX | |
| 13024 | November 17, 2009 | Raina White | San Antonio, TX | |
| 13023 | November 17, 2009 | arlene ortiz | belleville, NJ | support women and childrens health - thank you |
| 13022 | November 17, 2009 | Jennifer Glover | Saint Louisville, OH | |
| 13021 | November 17, 2009 | Deborah de Winter | New York, NY | |
| 13020 | November 16, 2009 | Patty Janicek | Downers Grove, IL | |
| 13019 | November 16, 2009 | Judy Oppelt | Neenah, WI | Please look out for our children- the next generation- make a commitment to helping breastfeeding moms. |
| 13018 | November 16, 2009 | Tasha Phifer | Charlotte, NC | |
| 13017 | November 15, 2009 | max bernardi stachowicz | shoreham, NY | breast is best! breastfeeding is great for mother and baby...what an absolute treasure. know your rights ladies...there are several states that have great laws for lactating women and women who exclusively feed their babies breast milk who pump at work. NYC is the best place to pump and work. |
| 13016 | November 14, 2009 | stephanie Brown | Lafayette, LA | Solve future health care problems by promoting breast-feeding. Let's get the results of breast-milk research in front of all Americans to help our country! |
