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JANUARY 2021 NEWSLETTER
CATCH UP ON THE LATEST BREASTFEEDING NEWS & VIEWS
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We are thrilled to announce our 2021 Virtual Liquid Gold Gala, broadcasting live on Zoom! We have a special event planned
just for you -- the breastfeeding community!
Saturday, February 13, 2021
6:00 PM - 6:45 PM
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR FREE!
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CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A LIQUID GOLD COCKTAIL KIT!
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BREASTFEEDING NEWS & VIEWS
*ALL LINKS HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW*
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Lactation Support for Low-Wage Workers Brief
The Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Division announces the release of the Lactation Support for Low-Wage Workers Brief. The Brief addresses the public health issue that lactation accommodation is less likely to be provided to low-wage workers than high-wage workers. It shares actions needed to ensure that all low-wage workers in California have the opportunity to reach their breastfeeding goals.
This Brief is part of an Association of State Public Health Nutritionists (ASPHN) Children’s Healthy Weight CoIIN (Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network) funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. In California this collaborative work was led by the California WIC Association and included the collaborative efforts of the California Breastfeeding Coalition and the California Department of Public Health (MCAH, WIC and Chronic Disease). The CoIIN addresses the public health category of Children’s Healthy Weight and Breastfeeding.
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What Every Health Professional and “Civil Authority” Should Know About “Sleeping With Baby”
i.e. Mother-Infant Co-Sleeping With Breastfeeding
A Top-12 List by James J. McKenna, Ph.D.
Read the list HERE
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans Released
The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025. The guidelines provide science-based recommendations designed to foster healthy dietary patterns for Americans of all ages – from birth through older adults.
For the first time the guidance includes recommended healthy dietary patterns for infants and toddlers as well as pregnant and lactating women. The Dietary Guidelines recommend exclusive human milk feeding for about the first 6 months of life, and to continue to feed infants human milk through at least the first year of life, and beyond if desired. The Dietary Guidelines serve as the basis for Federal nutrition education materials designed for the public and for the nutrition education components of USDA and HHS nutrition programs.
Downloadable graphics and information can be found HERE.
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GUEST BLOG: TO-WEN TSENG
(Journalist, Author, & Breastfeeding Activist)
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How to Promote Breastfeeding in Ethnic Groups? Study Says Prenatal Education Might be the Answer
When I was pregnant with my first child, during a prenatal interview, my then future pediatrician asked me if I planned to breastfeed. I said, “I will try if I have milk.”
He told me, “With proper support, virtually every mother has milk.”
It was this statement that motivated me to make a breastfeeding plan. Now, new research has echoed this personal experience of mine: Healthcare providers are an essential “first contact” for encouraging pregnant women to value breastfeeding.
While exclusive breastfeeding is described as a problem for all American women, Asian American women have been shown to introduce foods other than mother’s milk to their infants earlier than any other ethnic group, according to a 2016 study. The new research wanted to find out why and concluded that the answer is “a lack of available prenatal breastfeeding education.”
The research focused on Chinese Americans, the largest Asian American group, and found that Chinese American women often did not receive information from their healthcare providers about breastfeeding during prenatal visits, which is an important missed opportunity for providers to reinforce the value of exclusive breastfeeding. While these pregnant women had positive attitudes toward breastfeeding, they lacked the knowledge of the importance of exclusive breastfeeding, general approval for using infant formula, as well as early introduction of complementary foods. Most of them don’t know about colostrum, the nutrients- and antibodies-rich “liquid gold” present immediately after birth.
In short, the access to breastfeeding education is the one factor that affects feeding choices the most among Chinese American mothers. Lacking prenatal breastfeeding education is leading Chinese American mothers to introduce unnecessary liquids to their babies during the first six months of life.
“The more information a woman has prenatally, the more influence it will have on her feeding decisions when she has her baby,” said Dr. Joanne Goldbort, an assistant professor from Michigan State University College of Nursing, and the lead researcher of the study. For example, she said, “most Chinese American moms didn’t know colostrum was essential, so they were introducing other liquids such as formula or sugar water, which is a problem.”
The researchers also found that while person-centered and factual messages were judged as equally effective messages, intention to breastfeed was more affected by the factual message. Dr. Goldbort urged healthcare providers to proactively communicate with all pregnant women during all trimesters of pregnancy about the importance of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months postpartum.
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In partnership with the UC San Diego Extension Lactation Education Program,
the San Diego Country Breastfeeding Coalition is pleased to offer two scholarships for Winter 2021!
View our full scholarship announcement and application below.
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Become an SDCBC Member in 2021!
We offer different levels of membership with
special benefits to thank you for your generous support!
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SELECT YOUR MEMBERSHIP TYPE:
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Let’s continue to work together to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. As always, please let us know if you have questions or ideas for the Coalition as we continue to adapt during this unique time.
Happy Holidays,
San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition Board of Directors
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