Breastfeeding and Breast Feed

McKINNEY — Collin County officials say they’re investigating why an Allen mother was told she could not breastfeed her newborn baby in a public building.

Jennifer Lynch’s commitment to breast-feeding was reaffirmed when her baby was born more than a month before his due date. “Breastfeeding is very beneficial for babies,” said Lynch, a Far Hills mother of the now two-month-old Chase.

Christy Porucznik, an assistant professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah, wants mothers to be unafraid to breastfeed their babies.

With 100 days to go, are you ready for digital? Should mothers be allowed to breastfeed in public? What’s the biggest problem in Whitehaven? Is the future nuclear?

The commonly held belief that mothers suffering from post natal depression will not be able to breastfeed has been recently challenged. Researchers also suggests that the manner in which current breastfeeding promotion strategies are communicated may contribute to feelings of guilt and fears of inadequacy by mothers suffering from depression.

This year’s World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) calls upon policy makers, health workers, families and community members to ensure conducive conditions for mothers and babies to start breastfeeding during the first hour of birth.

The commonly held belief that mothers suffering from post natal depression will not be able to breastfeed has been challenged by research from the University of Leicester, which also suggests that the manner in which current breastfeeding promotion strategies are communicated may contribute to feelings of guilt and fears of inadequacy by mothers suffering from depression.

Items for this calendar must be received at least two weeks before the event. Only classes or lectures that are free or have a nominal cost of $100 or less will be accepted for publication. Cost must be included. E-mail calendar@savannahnow.com or send announcements to Community Classes, P.O. Box 1088, Savannah, GA 31402, or fax Community Classes, 525-0796.

SENTIMENTS may have got in the way of information in the raging dispute over The Philippine Milk Code (Executive Order 51).

Last week, doctors refused to attend to an HIV-positive pregnant woman, Raziya, after which her husband, Raees, was forced to deliver his child. But it seems as if the battle is not yet over for Raees and Razia. Razia is now being denied the right to breastfeed her baby.