The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a global initiative of UNICEF and the World Health Organization aimed at promoting hospital policies that encourage and support breastfeeding. Baby-Friendly USA, the organization primarily responsibile for implementing BFHI in the United States, has outlined 10 evidence-based practices that hospitals can implement to support breastfeeding — called the 10…
By Maayan Sudai Breastfeeding is known for being an extremely politicized issue. Past decades introduced us to different interest groups advocating for and against the ideal of “Breast is best”. A recent book by Courtney Jung called ‘Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad…
By Kate Greenwood Cross-Posted at Health Reform Watch For most women who work outside the home—Gisele Bundchen excepted—breastfeeding on the job is not an option. Pumping breast milk during the work day is more likely to be a realistic, if often challenging, choice. As I blogged about here, Section 4207 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
