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Growing Strong: A story about Quenesha and her son, Amor

February 26, 2013
Baby Amor was born on February 6, 2012, weighing 1.92 pounds. He had surgery – with many complications – and was held in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Cook County Stroger Jr. Hospital for seven months. In March 2012, with generous support from the VNA Foundation , HealthConnect One and...
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RoiAnn Phillips
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Progress, Momentum, and Social Media

February 26, 2013
There’s no doubt about it – public awareness and support for breastfeeding is at an all-time high. In fact, we just may be reaching the “tipping point.” Recent years have seen an unprecedented level of attention and commitment to improving the “landscape of breastfeeding support” and the media has...
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Cathy Carothers
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Answering the Call: Black Surgeon Generals All Promote Breastfeeding

February 26, 2013
Reflecting on Black History Month, we have a tendency to hear stories about the Rosa Parks, Mahalia Jackson, Jackie Robinson-type icons who broke through color barriers to lay the foundation of a better future for people of color. As a doctoral student studying public health, I am proud that in the...
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Tyra Gross
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Memories of Breastfeeding

February 26, 2013
During my pregnancy there was no doubt in my mind that I would breastfeed my daughter, why wouldn’t I? So in my excitement as a first time mother to be I read a number of ‘Mothers & Babies’ magazines and websites on the issue. I prepared myself aptly by purchasing what was said to be the best...
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Tokunbo Koiki
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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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Tennille Patterson
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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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Tytina Sanders-Bey
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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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Tanya Lieberman
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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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Tanya Workman
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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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Tangela Boyd
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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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Sojourner Marable Grimmett

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