Here are some of the highlights of the newsletter.

• Article on Chocolate Formula produced by Mead Johnson
• Article on Asthma in Pregnancy
• Maximizing Your Creativity
• World Breastfeeding

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For those of you who missed the awesome presentation at our conference or those of who did not see this video enough for our lecture “Got Enough Milk? Milk Supply Issues: Pumping, Infertility, Older Mothers, and Adoptive Nursing” by Diane Asbill, RN, IBCLC, Lactation Consultant for the Intensive Care Unit, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC.

Here is the link to seeDr. Jane Morton’s video that Diane showed

Hand Expression Video

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“In the postpartum period, many women experience conditions which require
treatment with medicines, such as analgesics or antibiotics. However, pharmaceutical
companies remain cautious about the use of medicines in women who are lactating. Their
advice to physicians is usually to weigh the risks against the benefits. Yet, what are these
risks and benefits?”

Click here to read more of this article.

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We invite you to renew your annual NCBC membership for 2010.  Our membership calendar runs from January-December.

Membership Application

A committed membership helps to fulfill the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition mission to promote, protect and support breastfeeding through a cooperative network of individuals, coalitions, agencies and organizations.

Your membership renewal form and check for $20 can be mailed to:

Victoria Brown

5990 Beaman Old Creek Road

Walstonburg, NC  27888-9186

If you have already renewed your membership, please accept our sincere thanks!

Visit our website for meeting times, additional news, or to renew online today http://www.ncbfc.org/

Thank you,

Doris Robinson, Chair

NCBC Membership Committee

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Due May 12, 2010

Breastfeeding–Friendly Businesses and Breastfeeding–Friendly Employers

Do you know of a company, healthcare office or church/synagogue or mosque that welcomes breastfeeding mothers and babies? If so, encourage them to apply for recognition. They will receive a window peel-off decal, a plaque and inclusion in the registry of Breastfeeding–Friendly Businesses on the NC Breastfeeding Coalition’s website www.ncbfc.org Recognition is also available for Breastfeeding–Friendly Employers. There are $500 grants available to NC companies wanting to be more Breastfeeding–Friendly Businesses! Monies may be spent on improvements such as installing a sink, a door lock or buying a comfortable chair. The deadline for grant applications is May 12^th, 2010, but the recognition will be on-going. Simple applications available here (insert link).

The North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition has made it a priority to help promote a woman’s right to meet her lactation needs in the workplace and in the community at large.  Part of the way we hope to achieve this is through our Business Case for Breastfeeding grant.  We recognize that one of the best ways to promote breastfeeding in public, is to have businesses recognized for their breastfeeding friendly policies.  We want women to know where they can breastfeed without worrying about being chastised.  We would like for businesses who are breastfeeding friendly to be recognized as a way of thanking them for their actions, as well as publicizing their policies to others.

If you know of any businesses or employers that are breastfeeding friendly, please encourage them to apply for recognition and/or a mini-grant to establish or expand their program.

The applications for recognition are available on the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition Website (www.ncbfc.org ), or you can contact the coordinator of the Business Case for Breastfeeding grant, Mimi McCully, at mimimccu@gmail.com

Or Click here-NCBF Business Award or NCBF Employer Award

“The organizers feel that the applications explain the programs! Perhaps you could print the information sides and then link to the entire application so they can get the part to fill out. Whatever you feel is effective would be great – I just want to get the word out. Each company can apply for up to $500 to help make their business eligible for the recognition, but no one will apply if we who care about BF don’t spread the word!”

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New Infant Risk Center to answer questions about medications and breastfeeding

Dr. Thomas Hale, who writes the indispensable Medications and Mothers Milk, has teamed up with the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health to create an Infant Risk Center based at Texas Tech University.

Currently there are two references for checking the safety of medication use during breastfeeding, and neither work that well.  Medications and Mothers Milk is the gold standard for information on this, but many doctors offices and pharmacists don’t have it, and it’s too expensive for most moms to purchase.  It’s also updated every two years, so it can’t be thoroughly up to date.  Dr. Hale also runs a discussion board for professionals, but moms can’t ask questions directly.  The other resource is the website Lactmed, run by the National Institutes of Health, but I’ve found it to be less comprehensive, and it doesn’t have ranking system for ease of understanding relative risk (Hale uses a scale of L1 to L5).

That’s why I’m very excited about this new resource, which will make a lot of information available online to mothers and health professionals alike.

Most exciting is that the center “Will accept phone questions from women, physicians, and other health care providers about the use of specific drugs in pregnant or breastfeeding women.”  This will be incredibly helpful.

The Center will also:

• Provide the largest source of data on the use of medications in breastfeeding mothers in the world
• Provides a website and online databases to be used by every major university in the USA
• Engages on web forum with more than 13,000 registered health care professionals from around the world
• Disseminate information concerning the use of medications and other substances in pregnant and breastfeeding mothers
• Produce a large clinical case management system that will ultimately provide evidence on the outcome of exposure to drugs and what women and their health care professionals should expect

Source: Motherwear’s Breastfeeding Blog

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HI All,

We are conducting a quick survey on what health care practitioners do to help get a not-yet latching baby to the breast.  There are only 10 questions in the survey, it is very quick, and it is anonymous.    Please click the link (below) to Survey Monkey and fill in the questionnaire.  The deadline is Friday April; 23^rd.   We would appreciate your immediate help with this.  Thank you!!!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/nbci

Please forward this email to any and all who you think might interested or able to help.

Thanks for your cooperation!

E

EDITH KERNERMAN, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
Co-Director,  Co-Founder, NBCI

Newman Breastfeeding Clinic & Institute

in the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine

1255 Sheppard Avenue East

Toronto, ON  M2K 1E2

416-498-0002  phone

416-498-0012  fax

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Friends/Breastfeeding Advocates,

Our other hospitals that have filed letters of intent are not fI wanted to let you know that Baby Friendly USA has confirmed that Mission Hospital in Asheville is the first hospital in North Carolina to receive the Baby Friendly Designation from Baby Friendly USA. ar behind. I expect that we will have a few additions to the list by the fall!

Catherine S. Sullivan, MPH, RD, LDN, IBCLC, RLC
State Breastfeeding CoordinatorNutrition Services Branch
North Carolina Division of Public Health
(o) 252-321-7184
(f) 252-321-8291
catherine.sullivan@dhhs.nc.gov
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 20756
Greenville, NC 27858

The Ten Steps To Successful Breastfeeding

The BFHI promotes, protects, and supports breastfeeding through The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding for Hospitals, as outlined by UNICEF/WHO. The steps for the United States are:

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These are the proposed Healthy People 2020 Objectives for breastfeeding

Source: Heathly People 2010

• Increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed their babiesThe U.S. Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) applauds the retention of this objective. Ever since the health objectives for 1990 were published in 1980, better infant feeding practice has been a national health goal. Improvements are sought in three areas: initiation (more mothers taking up breastfeeding), duration (more babies being breastfed at six and twelve months of age), and quality (higher rates of exclusive breastfeeding). There is ample and increasing evidence that these improvements would bring positive health effects—-short-term and long- term—-for both mother and child, the two partners in the breastfeeding relationship.

• Increase the percentage of employers who have worksite lactation programs.The U.S. Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) welcomes this objective, which addresses the workplace as a key social and physical environment for many mothers. In 2003 more than half the mothers of infants were working for pay. Without worksite lactation support, many U.S. mothers begin giving formula or completely wean their babies when they return to work. Some women never even start breastfeeding, knowing that, lacking paid leave, they will have to be back at work in just a few weeks.

• Decrease the percentage of breast-fed newborns who receive formula supplementation within the first 2 days of life. The U.S. Breastfeeding Committee supports the inclusion of this new objective. Formula is seldom medically necessary, yet in some U.S. hospitals, a significant number of breastfed babies are reported to receive formula during their hospital stay. Formula permanently changes the gut flora and impacts the immune system. Banked human milk is available and would avoid these outcomes of formula use, but hospitals seldom offer banked human milk for healthy full-term babies.

• Increase the percentage of live births that occur in facilities that provide recommended care for lactating mothers and their babies. The U.S. Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) supports this objective. It is a key to improving both breastfeeding duration and breastfeeding quality. We suggest a slight re-wording: Increase the percentage of births that occur in facilities which provide care for mothers and babies consistent with the WHO/UNICEF “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.”

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