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Young, Black and Full of Milk

February 26, 2013
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...
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A breastfeeding business woman

February 26, 2013
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...
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Could African American Moms’ Breast Milk Hold the Keys to Preventing Breast Cancer?

February 26, 2013
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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Breastfeeding while lost in the woods

February 26, 2013
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...
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Making Breastfeeding the “New Normal” for African American Mothers

February 26, 2013
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...
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Support Establishing Lactation Rooms in Public Places: Would You Eat in the Bathroom?

February 26, 2013
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...
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Breastfeeding One, Nourishing Many

February 26, 2013
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...
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Breastfeeding tale

February 26, 2013
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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Against All Odds

February 26, 2013
As I read the recent MMWR from CDC, I was encouraged to see that we are making progress in increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration as a nation. I was even more delighted to see that, while African American women continue to have the lowest breastfeeding rates among all ethnicities, the gap...
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Social profit works to normal birth and breastfeeding

February 26, 2013
Porchia-Albert teaches an ASDS doula training at Freebrook Spaces in Brooklyn, NY. Attention: If you had your doubts about women doing it all, I’ve found one who can. She’s a mother of four all under the age of four and simultaneously, she is saving the world. She talks about her accomplishments as...
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