Just wanted to share the news about our recent profile in Pomegranate Seeds, the bi-monthly newsletter for Pomegranate Community Midwifery Clinic in Vancouver. Alison was selected as the Mama in Profile for the July & August issue and they also did a blurb about Sweet Home Birth Boxes. Check out the newsletter in pdf.
Take a minute to browse the Pomegranate website if you can. They are a fabulous bunch of women and the concept for their clinic is awesome: they have partnered with other women in the community to offer prenatal massage, chinese medicine, prenatal yoga, and prenatal and post-partum (Birthing From Within) classes as well as midwifery care all in one place. What a great idea!
Sweet Home Birth Boxes - the supplies you need no matter what your birth plan includes!
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
World Breastfeeding Week
Jul 31, 2006
Moms need more breastfeeding support
Tia Abell
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
VANCOUVER — World Breastfeeding Week (Aug. 1-7) may promote the perfect baby food, but many Canadian infants continue to be nursed for just a short time. And that means babies and their mothers miss out on valuable benefits, says University of B.C. Associate Professor of Nursing Wendy Hall.
Sweet Home Birth Boxes - the supplies you need no matter what your birth plan includes!
Moms need more breastfeeding support
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
VANCOUVER — World Breastfeeding Week (Aug. 1-7) may promote the perfect baby food, but many Canadian infants continue to be nursed for just a short time. And that means babies and their mothers miss out on valuable benefits, says University of B.C. Associate Professor of Nursing Wendy Hall.
“There are a lot of advantages for (breastfed) infants: a decreased risk of gastrointestinal infections, a decreased risk of atopic eczema and also a decreased risk of respiratory infection.”
Hall, whose article on mothers’ breastfeeding perceptions is in press at the International Journal of Nursing Studies, notes that it also helps mothers to breastfeed – the milk is free, no bottles are needed, and moms experience a faster return to their pre-baby weight as well as a cancer risk decrease.
Yet while a 2003 survey found 85 per cent of Canadian mothers attempted to breastfeed their babies, fewer than half continued for six months or more and 22 per cent stopped in the first month, according to Statistics Canada’s Health Reports (March 18, 2005).
Only 17 per cent breastfed their infants exclusively for six months as Health Canada and the World Health Organization recommend.
“The biggest reason women give (for quitting) is insufficient milk supply,” Hall explains, noting that babies’ growth spurts increase their milk demand, which may give mothers the false impression they’re not supplying enough. If women then supplement with food or formula, their milk production may decrease.
Hall suggests more hospitals adopt initiatives to inform women about timing feedings, correct positioning, mastitis and other concerns.
“And having a society where women are more comfortable (breastfeeding) in public and making sure partners and other family members are on board would help.”
Visit the World Breastfeeding Week website.
Sweet Home Birth Boxes - the supplies you need no matter what your birth plan includes!
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