WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK – AUGUST 1-7 2011
Written by Post Public Information Representative, Aug 4, 2011, 0 Comments
Courtesy Xochitl Mora,The Affordable Care Act also includes a historic new insurance that will ensure millions of women receive preventive health services without a co-pay or deductible. These new guidelines require insurance companies to cover certain women’s preventive services, including breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling. In addition, the ACA amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 by having employers provide reasonable break time and a place, other than a restroom, that is private and clean for a mother to express milk.
Why Breast Feed:
· BF is the best way to provide nutrition to infants, and all women who can, should breastfeed.
· All major health organizations agree that BF is the healthiest choice for babies. Breastfed infants have a decreased risk of several chronic diseases later in life (obesity, diabetes), and maternal child bonding is enhanced.
· Formula feeding is associated with increased risk of some infectious diseases, ear infections.
· Mothers who breastfeed their children experience many positive physical effects including decreased risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and osteoporosis while mothers who do not have higher rates of iron-deficiency anemia, ovarian and breast cancer.
· Breast milk requires no resources to produce and leaves nothing in landfills and costs nothing.
Join us for a “Breastfeeding Shower” from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at the Laredo Medical Center Community Center – 1st Floor Tower B, 1700 E. Saunders, Laredo, Texas 78041. A proclamation and press conference is scheduled at 10:00 a.m.
For more information contact Monica Elguezabal at (956) 727-9253. For media inquiries please contact Zaida Gonzalez at (956) 795-4918
