Pediatric politics stalls Ad Council campaign
[Delayed coverage of the Ad Council breastfeeding campaign fiasco...- JC]
Chicago Parent | Short Stuff
January, 2004
Eryn McGary
"Federal officials are putting on hold a planned multi-million-dollar Ad Council public service campaign to promote breastfeeding. And if formula makers have their way, the current campaign, two years in development, may be scrapped altogether. The companies, Ross Products, the unit of Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories that makes Similac and Isomil, and Mead Johnson, the Bristol-Myers Squibb subsidiary that makes Enfamil, say the Ad Council uses "scare tactics" to persuade new moms to nurse their babies for at least six months....."
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Sunday, February 22, 2004
HoustonChronicle.com - Mimi Hernandez's bank job isn't the usual 9-to-5: "
D. Fahleson / Chronicle
" Miosotis 'Mimi' Hernandez had jumped from one food-service job to another. A year and a half ago, she was slapping sandwiches together at Subway. Now she's the go-between for moms and their babies.
Hernandez, 24, preps and delivers pumped breast milk to the hungry at Texas Children's Hospital. ..."
D. Fahleson / Chronicle
" Miosotis 'Mimi' Hernandez had jumped from one food-service job to another. A year and a half ago, she was slapping sandwiches together at Subway. Now she's the go-between for moms and their babies.
Hernandez, 24, preps and delivers pumped breast milk to the hungry at Texas Children's Hospital. ..."
Friday, February 20, 2004
Go Ahead and Cry. It's Happy Hour.
New York Times
By TRIPTI LAHIRI
Published: February 20, 2004
On a recent Monday afternoon, a woman wandered into Terra 47, a cheery little cafe off Union Square in Manhattan.
She quickly retreated, her eyes wide as she backed out of the restaurant's red Art Nouveau-style doors.
It might have been that the tiny lemon-yellow space was already bursting at the seams. It might have been the occasional bared breast. Or just possibly, it might have been that some of the tipplers inside appeared to be shy of the current drinking age - by a couple of decades. ..."
New York Times
By TRIPTI LAHIRI
Published: February 20, 2004
On a recent Monday afternoon, a woman wandered into Terra 47, a cheery little cafe off Union Square in Manhattan.
She quickly retreated, her eyes wide as she backed out of the restaurant's red Art Nouveau-style doors.
It might have been that the tiny lemon-yellow space was already bursting at the seams. It might have been the occasional bared breast. Or just possibly, it might have been that some of the tipplers inside appeared to be shy of the current drinking age - by a couple of decades. ..."
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Breast-Feeding At Work; ADHS Promotes And Practices Policy
: "Arizona Capitol Times
By Sandi J. miller and David R. Miller
"Diana Ogden encourages businesses to allow breast-feeding in the workplace. Ms. Ogden knows what can happen when mothers are discouraged. "I had a client who said her boss would not let her pump breast milk anywhere in the business," she says. "She'd have to go out to her car, in 110-degree weather. What a horrible thing." As a site supervisor and nutritionist with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Ms. Ogden is determined to erase the stigma associated with breast-feeding in the workplace. She's not alone. The Arizona Department of Health Services has initiated a breast-feeding program to address issues and increase the practice though education, awareness and policy change. The program promotes breast-feeding as the superior method of feeding infants and young children in order to build their immunity to disease and help form strong, straight teeth...."
: "Arizona Capitol Times
By Sandi J. miller and David R. Miller
"Diana Ogden encourages businesses to allow breast-feeding in the workplace. Ms. Ogden knows what can happen when mothers are discouraged. "I had a client who said her boss would not let her pump breast milk anywhere in the business," she says. "She'd have to go out to her car, in 110-degree weather. What a horrible thing." As a site supervisor and nutritionist with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Ms. Ogden is determined to erase the stigma associated with breast-feeding in the workplace. She's not alone. The Arizona Department of Health Services has initiated a breast-feeding program to address issues and increase the practice though education, awareness and policy change. The program promotes breast-feeding as the superior method of feeding infants and young children in order to build their immunity to disease and help form strong, straight teeth...."
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