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02/26/13

I’ve worked hard to be in that less than 8% of Mississippi women (16% nationally) who exclusively breastfeed for the first six months of life, and my son and I are happily headed toward nursing for at least a year as he’s slowly introduced to solids. In these last six months I've learned...

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Alicia Barnes

02/26/13

Michael Morgan , founder and Executive Director of the African American Music Foundation, visited my church this week to celebrate Black History Month . During morning service his thrilling bass voice highlighted an inspiring memorial to Paul Robeson. That afternoon he delivered a recital and...

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Barbara Coombs Lee

Health Care Blog Carnivals

02/26/13

When it comes to breastfeeding, major media outlets have pretty much decided that it’s a leisurely activity that some women may engage for their entertainment. Seriously, discussions of the topic are deemed newsworthy by the extent of controversy they create. Last year, there was this thing with...

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Blog Carnivals Health Care

02/26/13

My daughter was born 3lbs and 12oz, on February 10th 2011 at 37 weeks. She was tiny for her gestational age because she experienced, Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR). I had an emergency C-Section and she was placed into the NICU. I was determined to breastfeed my daughter prior to her birth...

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Cheyenne Mateen

Childcare & Early Education

02/25/13

We Are! A few weeks ago, all U.S. children under the age of five grew to amazing heights. Ok, so babies didn't physically grow to ten feet tall (thank goodness, think of the diapers!), but all young children were raised up to the national stage when President Obama announced his plan for preschool...

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Sarah Francis

02/25/13

“It’s ironic that it’s both shocking and incredibly commonplace,” Jacqueline Robarge says about the shackling of women in labor. Robarge’s group, Power Inside , works with women affected by incarceration, street life, and abuse in Baltimore and is organizing to put a stop to what the American...

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Rachel Roth

Childcare & Early Education

02/25/13

My favorite part of the President’s State of the Union address was his plan for expanding pre-kindergarten to all four-year-olds. The idea has been around for decades, and it did once very nearly become law until it was vetoed by President Nixon. But in the past 40 years, two big parts of the early...

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health Health Care

02/22/13

Something's rotten in Denmark. Well, in DC actually. That's where the decision's been made — again and again and again — to keep a nasty insecticide called chlorpyrifos on the market. The result? A generation of kids is sicker and less smart. I'm truly not being melodramatic, though I admit the...

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Kristin Schafer

Health Care

02/22/13

Do you want to give the insurance industry *more* power over New Mexicans’ health coverage choices?! If you answered, “No!”, you must call New Mexico’s legislators RIGHT NOW to speak up to stop the insurance industry's attempt to gain more control over our state's new health coverage marketplace...

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Ashley Boyd

Gun Safety

02/21/13

Great news! Moms' voices calling for common-sense gun violence prevention laws are working! Today, we're hearing that support among lawmakers for universal background checks for gun purchases is really gathering steam, with even the likes of Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Joe Manchin of West...

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