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MCH nurses can provide breastfeeding help
This week is World Breastfeeding Week and Wodonga Council’s Maternal Child Health nurses are here to help women breastfeed.
The theme of this year is Protect Breastfeeding: a shared responsibility. The theme reflects on how breastfeeding contributes to the survival, health and wellbeing of all.
The theme also acknowledges that although support at the individual level is very important, breastfeeding must be considered a public health issue that requires investment at all levels. The concept of ‘building back better’ after the COVID-19 pandemic will provide an opportunity to create a warm chain of support for breastfeeding that includes health systems, workplaces and communities at all levels of society.
Hobsons Bay businesses are being invited to display a ‘Breastfeeding Welcome Here’ sticker on their shop fronts.
The council’s Breastfeeding Welcome campaign aims to raise awareness of breastfeeding in public during National Breastfeeding Awareness Week from August 1-7.
Hobsons Bayl’s Maternal and Child Health nurses will hold a live Facebook Q&A for parents on August 3 from 10-11am.
The panel will include nurse Jane Howard, physiotherapist Alex Lopes and breastfeeding counsellor Melanie Frodsham.
Breastfeeding support services are available at:
Altona Early Years Hub on Mondays from 1-4pm
Russell Court Maternal and Child Health Centre in Altona Meadows on Wednesdays from 1.30-4pm
An Australian woman living in Paris said she was made to feel shame after two security guards tried to stop her breastfeeding her daughter on a bench at Disneyland Paris. They were trying to make me feel shame, Laura, who did not provide her surname, told SBS News.
Laura, who lives in Paris, was visiting Europe s biggest theme park with her French husband and two children as a treat for her five-year-old after months of Covid lockdowns.
She said she began to breastfeed her two-month-old daughter on a bench while her husband and older daughter went on a ride.