HHS Launches New Public Education Campaign to Increase Breastfeeding Among African American Women
Posted by Matthew Wright on Apr 15, 2013 at 4:47 PMVoices commends the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on today launching It’s Only Natural, a new public education campaign that aims to raise awareness among African American women of the importance of and benefits associated with breastfeeding…
Promote breastfeeding: End formula samples
Posted by Roberta Heine on Oct 19, 2012 at 10:00 AMCross-posted at MomsRising.org
Get ‘em while they’re young. You’ll often hear us saying that the early years are when we can make the biggest impact in a child’s development. That’s why encouraging breastfeeding is so important.
The benefits of nursing…
Pelosi, Sebelius declare “a new day for women’s preventive care”
Posted by rheine on Aug 1, 2012 at 1:59 PMThe benefits of the 2010 health reform law continue to roll out. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius took to the pages of USA Today to celebrate women’s preventive care benefits…
Breastfeeding myths dispelled
Posted by Joe Theissen on Jun 5, 2012 at 12:06 PMMany people think that breastfeeding rates dropped once women began entering the workplace more in the 20th century. In fact, the rates of women working outside the home and for breastfeeding have been rising alongside each other since the ’70s.…
Emphasizing healthy child development – from birth to adulthood
Posted by Matthew Wright on Feb 28, 2012 at 8:27 AMIt is encouraging that more children are now enrolled in health insurance programs. As health insurance costs have risen and employer-based family coverage declined, the two federal programs designed to provide health services for kids —Medicaid and the Children’s Health…
Washington, D.C., program addresses racial gap in breastfeeding
Posted by rheine on Jan 3, 2012 at 2:52 PMBreastfeeding is very important to ensuring that children get the best, healthiest start to life. Health experts recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a child’s life and continued breastfeeding for the child’s first year. Yet fewer than…
No politics in the lactation room
Posted by Jacquelyn Lendsey on Aug 2, 2011 at 5:31 PMAlong the stately halls of Capitol Hill offices, which house the work of the world’s greatest deliberative body, are a few rooms with nicknames like the Lactation Station, the Milk Factory, and the Boob Cube. These are the lactation rooms…
The Breast Milk Cure
Posted by Jacquelyn Lendsey on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:30 AMVoices was proud to attend the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine’s 3rd annual summit. Although we were the only children’s group in attendance, two of our board members were able to give great presentations on this very important topic. Sen. Tom…
