Thanksgiving is upon us. This year, I’m grateful for family, friends, my fellow breastfeeding activists, and most of all, San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.  I started to blog for SDCBC in November, 2013, when my first child was six months old and when I lost my last job over a breastfeeding discrimination claim. With that being… The post Ten Years with SDCBC appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition designated Wichita State University as a “Breastfeeding Welcome Here” campus back in September. The news caught my attention not because WSU provides private lactation rooms through the campus—lactation facilities on university campuses are not rare. Take our local university, UCSD, for example. UCSD provides fourteen lactation rooms throughout its campus, many of… The post The Importance of Supporting Lactating Students appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

I was a breastfeeding mom for six years. During the six years, I have been separated from my baby for three months for work reasons, I have flown to four different cities with my pump within six months, I have been sent to the emergency room with mastitis and high fever, my milk supply has… The post This is My Why: A Reflection on #NBM2023 appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

Last month, I attended a PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act and Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) celebration event with the White House Gender Policy Council. The victories are very personal to me, and it was my great pleasure to share my story at the event. I have been advocating for the PUMP since 2013, when I was denied the… The post It Is NOT Kindness for Employers to Support Breastfeeding Employees. It Is The Law. appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

Unless you live in a cave, I’m sure you’ve heard that the Senate passed the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers (PUMP) act, a milestone protection for new mothers in the last few days of 2022. You’ve also probably heard that it’s a major milestone for women’s workplace civil rights. But what does it really… The post The PUMP Act is Now Signed Into Law. What Changes Is It Gonna Make? appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

Earlier this month I received a letter from a nursing mom through my Chinese-language breastfeeding page. Here was the scenario: The baby was now nine and a half months old. The mother got to pump milk every four hours, twice a day at work. The mom has added solid foods to the baby’s diet, but breastfeeding… The post Practicing Your Rights of Breastfeeding At Work appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

Between my two kids, I breastfed for a total of six years. I exclusively breastfed for the first six months of each of them, and we extended the breastfeeding relationship to 2.5 years with my older one and 3.5 years with my younger one. I was often asked, “Isn’t that a lot of work?” True, breastfeeding… The post Breastfeeding Actually Saved Me Lots of Work appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

For Immediate Release – October 11, 2022 SAN DIEGO, CA Contact:  Angeles Nelson, Board President                 angeles@breastfeeding.org … The post San Diego Coalition Honors Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer as 2022 Breastfeeding Champion appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

In partnership with UCSD Extension’s Global Lactation Alliance Program, SDCBC offers scholarships for community leaders who are pursuing LEC or IBCLC education in order to increase lactation support in underserved communities. Each year the Coalition will announce several scholarship opportunities and select individuals vividly exhibiting a passion to serve San Diego families. Meet Leslie McFarlane Like… The post Congratulations to our Summer 2022 Lactation Scholarship Awardees appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.