National Public Health Week
Public Health and Milk Banks
By Deborah Youngblood, PhD, Executive Director The first week of April is National Public Health Week, a time for everyone to reflect on the importance of healthy communities. Prior to being...
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Is Milk Exchange Normal?
Edited from original 2016 post, updated for 2018 National Public Health Week. As we have discussed in our previous National Public Health Week blogs, breastfeeding...
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Imagining Breastfeeding as Normal
Twenty years ago Diane Wiessinger challenged us to normalize breastfeeding in our language as well as our actions. Breastfeeding is not better, not optimal, not...
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Breastfeeding is Normal
Breastfeeding is normal. Everyone knows that, right? In 1996, Diane Wiessinger published an article, “Watch Your Language!,” in which she challenged all of us to...
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Public Health Begins with Breastfeeding
National Public Health Week April 4-10, 2016 The theme of National Public Health Week 2016 is Healthiest Nation 2030. The US ranks 34th in life...
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