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Black Breastfeeding Week: Bridging The Gap
Founded in 2012 by three nationally recognized breastfeeding advocates, Black Breastfeeding Week is an annual, week-long multi-media campaign from August 25th-31st to raise awareness of the health benefits and personal empowerment of breastfeeding in the Black community. Despite the proven benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and babies, for over 40 years there has been a gaping disparity in breastfeeding rates between Whites and Blacks. The reasons are complex.
“There’s a sense of stigma,” said Ms. Crawford-Hemphill, the Cincinnati nursing administrator and lactation consultant, in a recent New York Times article. She added, “I’ve encountered black women who will say they aren’t a slave, or they don’t want…
Please read original article Black Breastfeeding Week: Bridging The Gap posted on Healthy Black Girls on 28 August 2017 | 8:45 pm —
