Lactation Makes Dollars and Sense
When budgets tighten, lactation support is treated as a nice-to-have. It is one of the few line items that pays the payer back. Two papers make that case, and one […]
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What K–12 Health Standards Teach (and Don’t Teach) About Breastfeeding
L. M. Dinour and K. M. Camacho, “Breastfeeding Education in Kindergarten Through 12th Grade: A Content Analysis of United States Health Curriculum Standards,” Journal of School Health 96, no. 7
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Everyone Has a Thread: One Cloth, Many Hands
The U.S. Breastfeeding Committee fully released its national plan, Nourishing, Thriving Communities: A National Plan for First Foods, Breastfeeding, and Lactation Support through Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change. I’ve had
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A June That Started on Capitol Hill
Some months you feel the whole ecosystem at once. June was one of them — and it started on Capitol Hill. On June 3, I spent the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee’s
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What I’m Still Sitting With After Black Maternal Health Day of Action
June was a whirlwind. In the span of a few weeks I went from Capitol Hill for the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee’s Day of Advocacy, to presenting at the National Breastfeeding
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Step 4 Is for Everyone: Are Families with Disabilities Getting the Information They Deserve?
Step 4 of the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community is deceptively simple: during pregnancy, all families in the community are informed about the benefits of chest/breastfeeding, the
Nurture NC’s Value-Added Benefits Survey
If you have North Carolina Medicaid, your health plan is supposed to offer more than the basics. Those “extras” are called value-added benefits — things like breast pumps, baby-related supplies,
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Every Baby Still Needs to Eat: Planning for Infants When Emergencies Hit
When a hurricane, flood, or long power outage hits, the youngest members of a community are often the most vulnerable — and the easiest to overlook. Feeding a baby safely
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Exciting Opportunities for MPH Students
Opportunities to Transform Public Health At Breastfeeding Communities, we believe in the power of collaboration and innovation to create healthier, more equitable communities. As part of our mission to advance maternal
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Clean Water Is a First-Food Issue
One of our SAFE Infant Feeding Team research partners has a new paper out, and it puts careful evidence behind something we say all the time: when we talk about
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