Posts Tagged ‘breastfeeding’
Ten Years with SDCBC
Thanksgiving is upon us. This year, I’m grateful for family, friends, my fellow breastfeeding activists, and most of all, San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition. I started to blog for SDCBC in November, 2013, when my first child was six months old and when I lost my last job over a breastfeeding discrimination claim. With that being…
Read MoreThe Importance of Supporting Lactating Students
Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition designated Wichita State University as a “Breastfeeding Welcome Here” campus back in September. The news caught my attention not because WSU provides private lactation rooms through the campus—lactation facilities on university campuses are not rare. Take our local university, UCSD, for example. UCSD provides fourteen lactation rooms throughout its campus, many of…
Read MoreA Wonderful Opportunity
As parents, we all want to provide the best for our children. And there is rarely a better opportunity for us to nourish our kids than breastfeeding—especially for new parents, breastfeeding is a wonderful opportunity to nourish our babies, both physically and emotionally. Of course, breastfeeding also presents challenges. And that’s what I want to…
Read MoreThis is My Why: A Reflection on #NBM2023
I was a breastfeeding mom for six years. During the six years, I have been separated from my baby for three months for work reasons, I have flown to four different cities with my pump within six months, I have been sent to the emergency room with mastitis and high fever, my milk supply has…
Read MoreAugust 2023 News and views on breastfeeding, human milk, and public health
Top July 2023 Headlines: Top Headlines: Pride Month, LGBTQIA+ lactation support resources, research, events, and more
Read MoreJuly 2023 News and views on breastfeeding, human milk, and public health
Top July 2023 Headlines: Top Headlines: Pride Month, LGBTQIA+ lactation support resources, research, events, and more
Read MoreIt Is NOT Kindness for Employers to Support Breastfeeding Employees. It Is The Law.
Last month, I attended a PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act and Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) celebration event with the White House Gender Policy Council. The victories are very personal to me, and it was my great pleasure to share my story at the event. I have been advocating for the PUMP since 2013, when I was denied the…
Read MoreJune 2023 News and views on breastfeeding, human milk, and public health
Top June 2023 Headlines: Top Headlines: Pride Month, LGBTQIA+ lactation support resources, research, events, and more
Read MoreMay 2023 News and views on breastfeeding, human milk, and public health
Top May 2022 Headlines: Infant Formula Shortage Resources, Protections for Working Mothers, New Trainings, and more.
Read MoreGot a breastfeeding problem? Well, the problem is not breastfeeding
We need to talk about how to solve the difficulties that hinder mother’s chance of successfully breastfeeding, not what to use instead of breast milk.
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