Posts by To-wen Tseng
Help pass House Resolution 545: Why and How
Why urge the President to support breastfeeding GLOBALLY?
Read MoreMaking The Most Out Of #NBM19
It’s National Breastfeeding Month and I’m celebrating with activists throughout the first food field. So many of my fellow believers have been working so hard on protecting babies’ rights to get the best nutrition and I’m honored in collaboration with many dedicated advocates from around the country. I have so many to write about today,…
Read MoreThis #WBW, Empower Parents and Enable Breastfeeding
World Breastfeeding Week is just around the corner! Annually, WBW is celebrated from August 1 to 7 to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by government policymakers, WHO, UNICEF, and other organizations to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. We can never…
Read MoreCreating a Breastfeeding-Friendly Childcare
Early last summer, my then 8-month-old baby and I had a chance to participate in the filming of a series of breastfeeding-friendly childcare training videos produced by UC San Diego. I’m glad the videos are now up on UCSD’s website as a training tool for childcare providers! https://ucsdcommunityhealth.org/work/breastfeeding/child-care/training/ It says it takes a whole village…
Read MoreOvercoming language barriers in lactation service
Too often I heard people say “Asian moms don’t breastfeed.”
Read MoreThe real cost of breastfeeding
I wrote that “breast milk is free.” But I was wrong.
Read MoreNormalize Breastfeeding in our Community
Southern California has the biggest population of Asians in the world outside of Asia, yet fewer than 4% of all lactation consultants in this area speak an Asian language.
Read MoreThe Voice of Breastfeeding Community Needs to be Heard
With my colleagues at Asian Breastfeeding Task Force, I had a chance to present at the 14th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina a while ago. At the conference, we presented on a panel entitled “Normalizing breastfeeding in Asian communities.” The focus of our presentation was on sharing the history and…
Read MoreWhat I learned from a Biopsy while Breastfeeding
Last month, I discovered a suspicious lump in my left breast through a breast self-exam. After the ultrasound, my doctor decided the lump must be biopsied for assessment. In the evening before the biopsy, looking at my left breast in the mirror, I realized that I don’t worry about cancer—I have a strong family…
Read MoreBreastfeeding Discrimination in the Workplace is Real
When I returned to work as a staff writer at some newspaper in Los Angeles, I sat on the floor in a bathroom stall to pump breastmilk for my then 3-month-old son while my colleagues went to the bathroom, pounded on the door and occasionally complained about me occupying the stall. It was the only…
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