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San Diego Birthing Project By Mary Owens, Program Manager The San Diego Birthing Project is a community based volunteer organization using the Big Sister, Little Sister volunteer model. It consists of a group of volunteers (Sister Friends) who provide one-on-one support and advocacy to pregnant teens and women throughout their pregnancy. It is our goal to keep more babies alive and healthy by providing direction, emotional support, and education to |
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their mothers. Sometimes a pregnant woman just needs someone to talk to, or help in finding a doctor and knowing they have a friend and an advocate. We accept referrals from anyone who knows a pregnant woman who would like to participate. We welcome volunteers and donations of car seats, baby clothes and other necessities. Please email sdbirthproj@aol.com for more information. |
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Cindy C. Fessier, RN, Perinatal Services Coordinator, County of San Diego The County of San Diego has been supporting breastfeeding and the education of staff in the Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program Offices. These are Medi-Cal providers, who accept low-income patients and provide them with perinatal care, health education, nutrition, breastfeeding information, and psychosocial screening and counseling. We have been able to provide offices with a wonderful packet of resources, including La Leche League's, The Breastfeeding Answer Book and Dr. Thomas Hale's, Medications and Mothers' Milk 2002. The response from the providers has been very positive. We hope this will promote the right kind of support to the provider to assist their moms who endeavor to breastfeed. |
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In August 2002 we held a "Breastfeeding Basics Training" at the Health and Human Services Agency on Rosecrans Street. We had 30 participants from various doctors' offices and a good turn out from the South Region Public Health Nurses. Blue Cross of California and Main Street Medical Inc. sponsored this event. We all enjoyed the presenter, Roberta Webster, CLE from Imperial County, very much. She was extremely knowledgeable and had a warm, relaxed style that was highly conducive to dynamic audience participation. We were able to supply all the participants with Seattle-King County Department of Public Health's Breastfeeding Triage Tool, and we raffled four breastfeeding videos. We look forward to doing another breastfeeding training in the future. Thank you for all that you do in the County of San Diego to support Breastfeeding. Keep up the excellent work! |
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Nancy E. Wight MD, FAAP, IBCLC The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) was formed in 1996 as a worldwide organization of physicians dedicated to the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding and human lactation. Its mission is to unite into one association members of the various medical specialties with this common purpose. The goals of the ABM are:When the ABM was first formed, there was an outcry from the lactation community about a physicians' only, "exclusive" organization. Many felt that a multidisciplinary organization |
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would be a better method for reaching health care providers. What the physicians who conceived the ABM knew, and others came to realize, was that physicians as a group know a lot less about breastfeeding issues than most other perinatal health care providers. We also have significant self-consciousness about revealing our ignorance to other health care team members. In the last seven years the ABM has made significant progress in bringing physicians "up to speed". We have had seven international meetings, two basic breastfeeding courses, two health care team member meetings, produced a superb newsletter and five evidence-based clinical protocols, with several more in progress. As physicians teaching physicians, we have alerted our colleagues to the wealth of breastfeeding information and experience that exists in OTHER disciplines and organizations. Please check out the ABM web site www.bfmed.org, and alert others, especially other physicians, to the resources of the Academy. |
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