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Returning to Our Unsettled Dust: a presentation outlining how non-Māori systems, policies and people impact on Māori health outcomes and how this affects breastfeeding.

This is a presentation originally given at the La Leche League Health Professional’s Breastfeeding Seminar in Christchurch in October 2018. This link will take you to a video of it being presented at the Baby-Friendly meeting held in Wellington in November 2018. Thank you to NZBA for supporting it, for filming it and for providing…

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31/01/2019News

Congratulations on your Breastfeeding-Friendly Certification Eastgate Shopping Centre

Eastgate Shopping Centre acknowledged as Breastfeeding-Friendly. The Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service is super-excited to announce that Eastgate Shopping Centre has just been certified as being a Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace. Breastfeeding provides a number of well-evidenced health benefits both to breastfeeding women and to their babies. Women report that returning to the paid workforce is a…

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26/11/2018News

The Loft Has Risen to Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace Status!

The Loft is a community of agencies with the collective purpose “to enhance outcomes for children, young people, families and communities by achieving the optimum added value that co-located community well-being services has to offer.” It offers a new way for the people of Canterbury to access a wide range of health and well-being services…

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02/10/2018Uncategorized

Breastfeeding-Friendly UC

We recently had the pleasure of awarding the University of Canterbury Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace status. Breastfeeding is well researched and recognised as providing many short and long term health and wellbeing benefits to babies, mothers, families and communities. Today, for a myriad of reasons, many women are returning to work after the birth of their baby…

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13/08/2018News

The Big Latch On 2018

The Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service and the Canterbury Breastfeeding Network ran a Big Latch On Event at the McFaddens Centre in St Albans on Friday, August 3, 2018. The event was very well attended with 55 latched mothers and babies/toddlers recorded. We were fortunate to be able to offer more space this year allowing us…

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13/08/2018News

Baby business: Is the milk formula industry too powerful? Video Roundtable from London 2018

Baby business: Is the milk formula industry too powerful? Video Roundtable from London 2018 Breast milk has become a political issue. At the World Health Assembly, the US opposed a resolution promoting breastfeeding. Are governments bowing to the food industry at the expense of child health? Do infant formula manufacturers have too much power? Joining…

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03/08/2018Breastfeeding

Exclusive breastfeeding in hospital predicts longer breastfeeding duration in Canada

Exclusive breastfeeding in hospital predicts longer breastfeeding duration in Canada: Implications for health equity. Birth 2018, Vehling, Chan, & McGavock et al Methods We studied 3195 Canadian mother‐infant dyads in the CHILD pregnancy cohort. Newborn feeding was documented from hospital records. Caregivers reported sociodemographic factors and infant feeding at 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months.…

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03/08/2018Breastfeeding

Australian general practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards breastfeeding

Australian general practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards breastfeeding. Plos One 2018 Holtzman & Usherwood While all the GPs interviewed had positive attitudes towards breastfeeding, they were often lacking in knowledge and conviction to provide strong support for women during their breastfeeding journey. This is not surprising considering most GPs had little or no formal…

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03/08/2018Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding knowledge and attitudes of health professional students

Breastfeeding knowledge and attitudes of health professional students: a systematic review. International Breastfeeding Journal 2018 – Yang, Salamonson, Burns and Schmied BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding support from health professionals can be effective in influencing a mother’s decision to initiate and maintain breastfeeding. However, health professionals, including nursing students, do not always receive adequate breastfeeding education during their…

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03/08/2018Breastfeeding

Six Months of Breastfeeding Reduces Mothers’ Risk of Heart Disease

Six Months of Breastfeeding Reduces Mothers’ Risk of Heart Disease. Research presented at The American College of Cardiology’s 67th Annual Scientific Session in March, 2018 shows women with normal blood pressure during pregnancy and who breastfed their babies for at least six months following birth had better markers of cardiovascular health years later compared to women…

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03/08/2018Breastfeeding