To the editor:
Each year, Aug. 1-7 is proclaimed World Breastfeeding Week. Lawrence joins others around the world in that proclamation. The week is held to commemorate the 1990 signing of the Innocent Declaration, which was the result of a meeting between the World Health Organization and UNICEF. The declaration outlines specific ways in which governments and medical institutions can help promote breastfeeding.
There is still much work to be done to make breastfeeding the norm in infant feeding. Breastfeeding is as much a public health issue as is wearing a seat belt, placing a child in a car seat, wearing a bike helmet, not smoking or checking your home for lead-based paint. You can make a difference by simply giving a breastfeeding mother gentle support and words of encouragement.
As the Department of Health and Human Service's Office on Women's Health proclaims "Babies were born to be breastfed."
Jane Tuttle,
Lawrence
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