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02/26/13
Reflecting on Black History Month, we have a tendency to hear stories about the Rosa Parks, Mahalia Jackson, Jackie Robinson-type icons who broke through color barriers to lay the foundation of a better future for people of color. As a doctoral student studying public health, I am proud that in the...
Tyra Gross's picture
02/26/13
During my pregnancy there was no doubt in my mind that I would breastfeed my daughter, why wouldn’t I? So in my excitement as a first time mother to be I read a number of ‘Mothers & Babies’ magazines and websites on the issue. I prepared myself aptly by purchasing what was said to be the best...
Tokunbo Koiki's picture
02/26/13
When I decided to become a mother at age 21, I had no idea how to prepare. I just knew in my heart that I wanted to do any and everything most natural and beneficial for my child. My doctors were supportive of me deciding to breastfeed so shortly after giving birth they placed my daughter in my...
Tennille Patterson's picture
02/26/13
I am the proud mother of 5 breastfed babies. I started as a breastfeeding teenage mother. I went from being a breastfeeding mother to being a breastfeeding peer counselor, to becoming a CLC. I have dedicated my life to empowering women to successfully breastfeed their babies and reap the benefits...
Tytina Sanders-Bey's picture
02/26/13
Note: If you’re an African American nursing mom living anywhere in the country and interested in donating breast milk for this research, please contact Beth Punska at (413) 545-0813, or email her at epunska@vasci.umass.edu . More information is also at the study website . If you’re not African...
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02/26/13
There I was in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, known to many as “Fort Lost in the Woods” due to its location in central Missouri. I was well over a thousand miles from home and family and holding my first-born child in in the delivery/recovery room of the maternity ward. I was in love and I was in...
Tanya Kalehia Workman's picture
02/26/13
Driving through town, we see billboards that display advertisements for business in the community. Even though it is important to promote business to help our economy grow, another issue of equal importance is the promotion of healthy human life...healthy human INFANT life, to be direct. For...
Tangela Boyd's picture
02/26/13
One of the greatest struggles for breastfeeding mothers is to have our voices heard and accommodations met in order to express milk and feed our children in public places. Women have lobbied and fought for years to establish lactation rooms in their places of employment and public facilities. Only...
Sojourner Marable Grimmett's picture
02/26/13
Long before my bouncing baby boy entered my life, I knew I would be breastfeeding. I’d read all the studies that detailed how breast milk was the ideal food for infants, the biological norm that provided the perfect combination of nutrients and immune system boosters for baby, and plenty of health...
Shannon Shelton Miller's picture
02/26/13
To be honest, I never considered not breastfeeding I was a woman, I had breasts, and I was having a child. That is what breasts are for right? To feed babies. That was my point of view. My mother always boasted about breastfeeding her children. How long she breastfed and how wonderful it was for...
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