TWIN TIERS BREASTFEEDING NETWORK
The Twin Tiers Breastfeeding Network, NY USA will be
celebrating World Breastfeeding Week in the Twin Tiers
(Elmira - Corning NY/Pennsylvania border) in the USA with three events.
 FIRST ANNUAL BREASTFEEDING
FRIENDLY AWARDS
Thursday, Aug 3, 2006 at noon
1st Floor Conference Room
Health Center for Women
600 Fitch, Elmira
Mayor John Tonello
will present the awards to local businesses
and proclaim the first week in August to be
World Breastfeeding Week
Mothers and babies are welcome!
TwinTiersBreastfeedingNetwork@gmail.com #607-562-3367 |
The Arnot Ogden
Medical Center will be hosting the Breastfeeding Grand
Rounds Satellite Broadcast on Thursday, August 3, 2006 -
7:30 a.m. -9:30 a.m. in the Maternity Unit Conference Room.
Directions: Take the triple elevators in the main building to
the second floor.
Turn left and go through the double doors. Turn right into the
Conference Room.
Program: The UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
Miriam H. Labbok, MD, MPH, professor of the Practice of Public
Health and director, Center for Infant & Young Child Feeding &
Care,
Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and formerly senior advisor on infant
feeding at UNICEF
Ruth Lawrence, MD, professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics &
Gynecology, University of Rochester School of Medicine &
Dentistry,
and author of "Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical
Profession"
Moderator: Mary Applegate, MD, MPH
This program will introduce participants to the UNICEF Baby
Friendly Hospital Initiative, an international effort to
improve breastfeeding
support practices in hospitals. Through case studies involving
three hospitals/hospital systems in upstate New York and in
New York City,
Drs. Labbok, Lawrence and Applegate will present the
challenges of achieving Baby Friendly status in U.S. hospitals
and describe how
hospitals can address those challenges.
To register for this program, call Renee McCann, 739-4150
For more information about the UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital
Initiative, go to:
http://www.babyfriendlyusa.org/eng/01.html |
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Chemung Valley La Leche
League will be holding a picnic from 10am to noon on Thursday
August 24th, 2006 at the children's playground in Big Flats
Community Park. It will be a double celebration in honor of World
Breastfeeding Week and La Leche League International's 50th
Anniversary. Please bring your own lunch. Door prize drawing!
Balloons! Fun for all!
http://www.lllusa.org/web/ChemungValleyNY.html |
World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is August
1st – 7th and celebrates the signing of the Innocenti Declaration on the
Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding. It is celebrated in
120 countries on various dates. The theme for 2006 is "Code Watch: 25
Years of Protecting
Breastfeeding." The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk
Substitutes, also known as "The Code," marks its 25th anniversary in 2006.
Adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981, The Code is an international
public health recommendation which seeks to give women
pure facts about feeding their babies, free of aggressive infant formula
marketing influences, so that mothers can make well informed feeding
decisions. Marketing refers to all promotional activities by manufacturers
and distributors, from advertising and labeling to their
relations with health workers and their associations.
The Innocenti Declaration was produced and adopted in 1990 by participants
at the WHO/UNICEF meeting on "Breastfeeding in the 1990s:
A Global Initiative." The document lists the benefits of breastfeeding,
plus global and governmental goals. Combining Two Wonderful Events
In addition to the annual celebration of World Breastfeeding Week, LLLI's
50th Anniversary will kick off with picnics around the world in the summer
of 2006 to commemorate the first picnic that started La Leche League. LLLI
will have a big picnic in Wilder Park where the Founders met 50 years ago.
Leaders are encouraged to hold picnics in their own towns too. LLLI is
choosing to hold a celebration that will span into 2007 and culminate with
the '07 International Conference in Chicago. Because 2006 is also the 25th
anniversary of the WHO Code, it seems a natural link to celebrate the two
events together this year. For more information, go to
http://www.lllusa.org/wbw/ |
