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Advocacy!
US breastfeeding rates are low, due to many factors which include lack of support for breastfeeding women, poor maternity leave policies, industry marketing tactics, clinician lack of knowledge, poor hospital policy, and lack of peer support. The Breastfeeding Center works with other advocates to increase US breastfeeding rates.
Ban the Bags!
The Director of the Breastfeeding Center is co-chairing this national Campaign to eliminate infant formula industry diaper discharge bags from US hospitals. The Campaign was launched in July 2006 at the International Lactation Consultant Association conference in Philadephia. Visit our website at banthbags.org for more information!
Please tell us about your hospital! Look for your hospital on the Ban the Bags website. Are you bag free? Are you listed? If not - let us know and we will list you!
The National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign
The Breastfeeding Center at Boston Medical Center is proud to be a Community Demonstration Proejct for the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign.
The Campaign is run by the Office on Women's Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, and aims to increase breastfeeding awareness, raise exclusive breastfeeding rates at 6 months, and raise breastfeeding rates in African American women, who have the lowest breastfeeding rates in the US.
The Office on Women's Health Breastfeeding promotion program is run by Dr. Suzanne Haynes, Senior Science Advisor to the Office on Women's Health. Dr. Haynes also runs the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign.
World Breastfeeding Week!
The theme of World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7, 2006) wasCode Watch: 25 Years of Protecting Breastfeeding. Link to ILCA's WBW page to learn more! The Breastfeeding Center partnered with Boston ice cream store JP Licks to publicize WBW, offering Coupons for reduced price ice cream for pregnant and breastfeeding moms are being distributed all week at Boston Medical Center, The Dimock Community Health Center, Martha Eliot Health Center, and Southern JP Health Center. Thanks to JP Licks for their support!
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