Woman charged in breast milk assault on jailer

Posted: 9:42 a.m. Sunday

OWENSBORO, Ky. — A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. But as she was changing into an inmate uniform, she squirted breast milk into the face of a female deputy who was with her.

The woman now faces a felony charge of third degree assault on a police officer. Her bond was set at $10,000.

NYC chef creates breast milk cheese

Posted: 3:29 p.m. today

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United States Lactation Consultant Association Announces

Yesterday, Kiran Saluja gave wonderful testimony at the hearing on child nutrition programs held by the House Committee on Education and Labor. You can read her testimony at the website below. She emphasized the importance of breastfeeding as well as how other segments of the health care system and community need to do their part to help improve breastfeeding rates.We need to follow-up on this and contact each member of this committee, adding our voice to urge Congress to act on the recommendations made by Kiran. Committee members are listed following the announcement. In our letter we should place emphasis on Kiran’s recommendations which are in bold in her testimony. A few appear below that you may wish to place special emphasis on. I would appreciate feedback on anything you send and any replies that you receive.

Sincerely

Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC, RLC

Director of Public Policy

An important place to start to help WIC succeed in its breastfeeding support and promotion efforts would be to fix the breastfeeding – broken hospitals! While I recognize this may be beyond the purview of this Committee, I am compelled to ask you to work collaboratively with your colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee to pass legislation that requires that all hospitals that receive Medicaid funds adhere, at a minimum, to a set of model policies that do not sabotage breastfeeding, and at best initiate steps to become a Baby Friendly Hospital.

Thus another important way to help WIC promote and support breastfeeding, would be for the Committee in collaboration with your partners in Congress to make a determined effort to eliminate or sharply curb the blatant direct marketing of infant formula, which violates the WHO code and targets vulnerable low income women of color.

nutrition education and add such language (breastfeeding promotion and support) to each citation related to WIC for nutrition education in the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.

b. Ensure that ALL federal programs serving families, in particular, but not limited to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Child Care and Adult Food Program are breastfeeding friendly and that the employees have, at a minimum, a clear understanding that breastfeeding mothers and babies will be supported.

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“Formula Feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.”
Frank Oski, M.D., retired editor, Journal of Pediatrics

Check out this trailer for a film called Formula Fed America.

http://www.formulafedamerica.com

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The Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA), United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC), International Lactation Consultant Association/United States Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA/USLCA), and La Leche League International (LLLI) are jointly issuing an urgent call for human milk donations for premature infants in Haiti, as well as sick and premature infants in the United States.

This week the first shipment of human milk from mothers in the United States will be shipped to the U.S. Navy Ship “Comfort” stationed outside Haiti. “Comfort” is currently set up with a neonatal intensive care unit and medical personnel to provide urgent care to victims of the earthquake. An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant stationed at the U.S. Navy base in Bethesda, MD is assisting with providing breast pump equipment and supplies to the “Comfort.” Dr. Erika Beard-Irvine, pediatric neonatologist, is on board the “Comfort” to coordinate distribution of the milk to infants in need. HMBANA, USBC, ILCA/USLCA, and LLL are responding to requests to provide milk for both premature infants and at-risk mothers who have recently delivered babies on board the U.S.N.S. Comfort, but an urgent need exists for additional donations.

At the current time, the infrastructure to deliver human milk on land to Haiti infants has not yet been established. As soon as that infrastructure is in place, additional donations will be provided to older infants.

Mothers who are willing to donate human milk should contact their regional Mothers’ Milk Bank of HMBANA. A list of regional milk banks is available at the HMBANA website at www.hmbana.org.

Currently milk banks are already low on donor milk. New milk donations will be used for both Haiti victims as well as to replenish donor supplies to continue to serve sick and premature infants in the U.S. Donor milk provides unique protection for fragile preterm infants. Financial donations are also strongly encouraged to allow HMBANA, a nonprofit organization, to continue serving infants in need.

UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the Emergency Nutrition Network, and medical professionals all recommend that breastfeeding and human milk be used for infants in disasters or emergencies. Human milk is life-saving due to its disease prevention properties. It is safe, clean, and does not depend on water which is often unavailable or contaminated in an emergency. Relief workers, health care providers, and other volunteers are urged to provide support for breastfeeding mothers to enable them to continue breastfeeding, and to assist pregnant and postpartum women in initiating and sustaining breastfeeding.

For more information, contact HMBANA at 408-998-4550 or http://www.hmbana.org/ . Additional information can be provided from the United States Breastfeeding Committee at 202-367-1132 (http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/), ILCA/USLCA at 1-800-452-2478 (http://www.ilca.org/  or http://www.uslca.org/ ), or La Leche League at 847-519-7730 (http://www.llli.org/) .

 Sincerely,

Angela Smith, President
ILCA Board of Directors

Milk Bank Locations
http://www.hmbana.org/index/locations

For those in the triangle area and surrounding areas
WakeMed Mothers Milk Bank
http://www.wakemed.org/body.cfm?id=135

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January 13, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding Core Measure:
USBC publishes guidance for hospitals

Washington, DC–The United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) has published guidelines to aid hospitals and maternity facilities in accurate collection of the data needed to comply with The Joint Commission’s new core measure on exclusive breast milk feeding.

Download PDF document

After March 31, 2010, The Joint Commission’s Pregnancy and Related Conditions core measure set will be retired and replaced with the new Perinatal Care core measure set. The new Perinatal Care core measure set is available for selection for hospitals beginning with April 1, 2010 discharges.

The Perinatal Care core measure set comprises the following measures:

• Elective delivery
• Cesarean section
• Antenatal steroids
• Health care-associated bloodstream infections in newborns
• Exclusive breast milk feeding

USBC’s guidelines offer suggestions on how to accurately collect data on exclusive breast milk feeding, with samples from hospitals that already collect this data. USBC encourages sharing of the document and hopes that widespread use will enable hospitals to accurately and easily collect the required data, and to ultimately improve quality of care related to infant feeding.

The document is provided at no charge and may be freely duplicated and distributed.

United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC)
The United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) is an independent nonprofit coalition of 41 nationally influential professional, educational, and governmental organizations. Representing over half a million concerned professionals and the families they serve, USBC and its member organizations share a common mission to improve the Nation’s health by working collaboratively to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. For more information about USBC, visit www.usbreastfeeding.org.

United States Breastfeeding Committee
2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202/367-1132
Fax: 202/367-2132
E-mail: office@usbreastfeeding.org
Web: www.usbreastfeeding.org

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Check this video out for a good laugh and a good way to promote the importance of closeness with mother and their babies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU84rDbdu8Q

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Legislative text was released last night for the Senate health reform bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Here’s the direct link to the PDF of the Senate bill: Read the rest of this entry »

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