"Breastfeeding is Important to Me" Campaign / Campaña "Amamantar es Importante para Mi"
The Binational Breastfeeding Coalition (BBC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have teamed up to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week and Breastfeeding Awareness Month with the Breastfeeding is Important to Me Campaign.
The campaign consists of short videos published daily throughout the month of August 2020 on BBC’s and AHA’s social media channels. The videos feature statements from lactation professionals, mothers, and breastfeeding supporters. The statements inform why breastfeeding is so important for mothers and babies and, in tandem with the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, also emphasize the link between breastfeeding and the environment.
The campaign also includes an official Facebook photo frame. Everyone is encouraged to use it on their profiles during the whole month of August.
INSTRUCTIONS
Hover over your Facebook Profile Photo and click on “Update”
Select the “Add Frame” function
Search for the name of the respective Profile Frame you would like to use (click on the photos below to see the names)
Once you’ve selected the frame and made any adjustments, click on “Use as Profile Picture”
Follow us for new videos daily on Facebook @Border Breastfeeding BBC and @ahawesttexas. Also follow the hashtags #WBMWorldBreastfeedingMonth and #REACH4Health. Twitter: @border_bbc
La Coalición Binacional de la Lactancia (BBC por sus siglas en inglés) y la Asociación Americana del Corazón (AHA por sus siglas en inglés) se han unido para llevar acabo la campaña Amamantar es Importante para Mi por motivo de la Semana Mundial de la Lactancia Materna y el Mes de la Concientización de la Lactancia Materna.
La campaña consiste de videos cortos publicados diariamente durante el mes de agosto 2020 en las redes sociales de BBC y AHA. Los videos exponen declaraciones hechas por autoridades en lactancia materna, madres, y simpatizantes de la lactancia. Sus aportaciones dejan saber porque es tan importante amamantar para las madres y los bebés, y junto con la “World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action”, también enfatizan la relación entre amamantar y el medio ambiente.
La campaña también incluye un marco (efecto de cámara) oficial de Facebook. Se invita a que todos lo utilicen en sus perfiles durante la duración del mes de agosto.
INSTRUCCIONES
Pon el cursor sobre tu foto del perfil de Facebook y haz clic en “Actualizar”
Selecciona la función “Agregar Marco”
Busca el marco ingresando el nombre del marco que quieras usar (haz clic en las fotos de arriba para verlos)
Una vez que hayas seleccionado el marco, haz clic en “Usar como foto del perfil”
Síguenos para ver los nuevos videos diarios en Facebook @Border Breastfeeding BBC y @ahawesttexas. También sigue los hashtags #WBMWorldBreastfeedingMonth y #REACH4Health. Twitter: @border_bbc
Breastfeeding and Coronavirus / La Lactancia y el Coronavirus
Downloads / Descargas (PDF)
PraeclarusPress:
Infographic - Breastfeeding and COVID-19
Infografía - Lactancia y COVID-19
COVID-19 Resource packet
World Health Organization (WHO) / Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS):
Breastfeeding and COVID-19 for health care workers /
Lactancia materna y COVID-19 para trabajadores de la salud
Resources / Recursos
Listed in chronological order by release date. Click on the source title to be directed to the resource.
Aparacen por órden cronológico de acuerdo a la fecha del comunicado. Haga clic en el título de la fuente para ser dirigido al recurso.
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM), Statement on Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), 10 Mar 2020
World Health Organization (WHO) / Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS)
Q&A: Breastfeeding and COVID-19 /
Preguntas y respuestas sobre la COVID-19 y la lactancia materna
7 May 2020UNICEF, Breastfeeding safely during the COVID-19 pandemic, 28 May 2020
World Health Organization (WHO), Statement on Breastfeeding and COVID-19, 12 June 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades
COVID-19: Pregnancy and Breastfeeding /
COVID-19: Embarazo y Lactancia
25 June 2020MotherToBaby, COVID-19 in pregnancy and while breastfeeding, 17 July 2020
Maternal Health Updates: COVID-19, Racism, Diversity & Equity
World Health Organization Statement on Breastfeeding and COVID-19
The World Health Organization released a statement regarding COVID-19 and breastfeeding. The live virus has not been found in breast milk diminishing the risk of transmission from the milk itself. It is recommended that even COVID-19 positive parents continue to breastfeed their babies.
Racial Profiling COVID-19 Hospital Policies in New Mexico
The Governor of New Mexioc is currently investigating allegations of COVID-19 policies in hospitals throughout the state that racially profiled Native American Women. A recent article by ProPublica discusses allegations that Native American Women were singled out for COVID-19 testing and separated from newborns after delivery. To read the article, click the link.
When Separation is Not the Answer
This journal article explores the various policies that have been implemented as it pertains to separating newborns from mothers with COVID-19. To read the article, click the link.
Webinar Recordings
COVID-19 and Breastfeeding Study
Researchers at the University of Idaho and University of Rochester are currently recruiting women with COVID-19 who are currently breastfeeding to determine if the transmission of the virus occurs through breast milk or breastfeeding. To participate in the study you must be at least 18 years old, currently breastfeeding, and have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 48 hours or awaiting the results of the test. For more information, please follow the link below:
Safe Sleep & Breastfeeding Conversations Module - Call for Module Reviewers
NACCHO is a member of the National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep Improvement and Innovation Network (NAPPSS). Currently, we are in the process of reviewing modules for maternal child health providers. These modules were created to help shift the approaches that have often been used in promoting safe sleep and breastfeeding. We would like your assistance in creating a tool for community organizations and workers to use the modules efficiently.
Link to the modules:
Link to the survey:
Big Girls DO Cry: Breastfeeding and Mental Health (2019 Breastfeeding Lecture Series “Look Who’s Talking”)
On October 18, 2019, The Binational Breastfeeding Coalition hosted an amazing speaker for our “Look Who’s Talking” lecture series, Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBLCLC, RLC. Dr. Kendall-Tackett, a psychologist, is a world renown author, speaker and researcher in the fields of breastfeeding, trauma and mental health. She spent the day with us at University Medical Center, West, 6600 Desert Blvd. North, a beautiful new facility with a great view of the Franklins and the Oregon Mountains.
Dr. Kendall-Tackett delivered two talks: the first was “Does Breastfeeding Protect Mental Health? The Impact of Oxytocin and Stress,” and the second was “Breastfeeding’s Role in Overcoming Trauma and Adversity”. A wide variety of professionals attended, 70 in all: there were nurses, physicians, lactation consultants, speech language pathologists, professors, counselors, community health workers and a few lay people! There were attendees from both the United States and Mexico. We even had a mothers’ area at the back of the room where 6 moms with breastfed babies were able to feel comfortable and never miss a word of the presentations.
Lunch was provided by El Paso Health and there was a special lunch presentation of documentary film, “Birth in Pieces” produced by El Jardin Birth and Family. The film features interviews with new mothers as well as obstetric providers and experts in the field of anthropology and sociology. The movie tied in well with Dr. Kendall-Tackett’s topics, since mothers interviewed were very candid about their trauma and sometimes difficult birth experiences.
We would like to thank University Medical Center of El Paso, El Paso Health, Envision New Mexico at UNM, WIC El Paso, and El Jardin Birth and Family Resource Center. And, in addition, this presentation was partly sponsored with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, REACH grant, facilitated by the American Heart Association.