The NY Times reports that Pope Francis has endorsed public breastfeeding. The Pope said at a gathering,
There are so many children that cry because they are hungry.
At the Wednesday General Audience the other day there was a young mother behind one of the barriers with a baby that was just a few months old. The child was crying its eyes out as I came past. The mother was caressing it.
I said to her: “Madam, I think the child’s hungry.”
“Yes, it’s probably time…,” she replied.
“Please give it something to eat!” I said.
She was shy and didn’t want to breast-feed in public, while the pope was passing.
I wish to say the same to humanity: give people something to eat! That woman had milk to give to her child; we have enough food in the world to feed everyone.
You can read the entire article at http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/pope-francis-encourages-breast-feeding-mother-in-a-public-place/?_r=2
Breastfeeding:
The Law
“No person shall be deemed
to be in violation of indecent
exposure for breastfeeding a
child in any public place or
any place where others are
present”
Please contact the
Virginia Breastfeeding Task Force
with any concerns or comments
(positive or negative) at:
Virginia Breastfeeding Task Force
PO BOX 35379
Richmond, VA 23235
Is there benefits to
nursing after 12 months....
YES!
The antibodies increase in
breastmilk after a year!
See below...
“Antibodies are abundant in
human milk throughout lactation”
(Nutrition During Lactation 1991; p. 134).
In fact, some of the immune
factors in breastmilk
increase in concentration during
the second year and also
during the weaning process.
(Lawrence & Lawrence 2011, Goldman 1983,
Goldman & Goldblum 1983,
Institute of Medicine 1991).