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Canada Breastfeeds news
A break for breastfeeding mothers
The new report on the Federal Labour Standards
Review has been released, and includes key work-family
recommendations. Section 7.59 says that employers should "provide for
short breaks during working hours to afford nursing employees
reasonable time off, without pay, to breastfeed a child and/or to
express milk on the work site."
Breastfeeding Challenge
Results from this year’s Quintessence Foundation
Breastfeeding Challenge are in! On September 30, 4687 mother-baby
pairs breastfed at 156 sites across North America in an attempt to set
the record for the most babies breastfeeding at the same time. The
winning region was Québec, with an amazing 2373 babies participating
across the province! Ontario came in second with 901 babies, and
British Columbia third with 717.
Vancouver conjoined twins breastfeeding
Conjoined twin sisters Tatiana and Krista Hogan,
born October 26 2006 in Vancouver, have been reported to be happily
breastfeeding. But these babies are joined at the head and
breastfeeding them is a challenging dance that takes two people and a
whole lot of patience, something their 21-year-old mother, Felicia
Simms, seems to have in abundance.
Although Simms breastfed her two older kids, it’s
a whole new beginning with her twins. "What’s the most challenging
part of breastfeeding them?" Simms said.
"Positioning! It’s very complicated because when
one is on the breast the other has to be tilted and has to be slanted
downwards."
"We’re trying to figure out how to feed both of
them at the same time," Simms said, laughing.
Peel restaurants breastfeeding-friendly
Peel Public Health is taking steps to make local
restaurants breastfeeding-friendly and has provided restaurant owners
with packaged materials to help them ensure moms are comfortable
breastfeeding at the table. The package includes decals which will
appear on shop windows, marking them as breastfeeding-friendly.
"With over 14,000 births in Peel each year, there
are a lot of breastfeeding mothers looking for a comfortable place
where they and their children can eat at the table," says Anne
Fenwick, Director of Family Health. "We’re pleased that many
restaurants are willing to take some extra steps to make their
customers comfortable breastfeeding."
Advocating for breastfeeding-friendly public
places is mandated as part of the core program standards from the
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and breastfeeding
rights are protected under the Ontario Human Rights Commission. |
