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.

As parents, we all want to provide the best for our children. And there is rarely a better opportunity for us to nourish our kids than breastfeeding—especially for new parents, breastfeeding is a wonderful opportunity to nourish our babies, both physically and emotionally. Of course, breastfeeding also presents challenges. And that’s what I want to… The post A Wonderful Opportunity 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.

As embarrassed as I am, I decided to share the experience here because it’s important for new parents to understand that while breastfeeding is natural, it is a learned skill for both mother and baby. The post Breastfeeding Is A Learning Process appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

We need to talk about how to solve the difficulties that hinder mother’s chance of successfully breastfeeding, not what to use instead of breast milk. The post Got a breastfeeding problem? Well, the problem is not breastfeeding appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

Between my two children, I breastfed for six years. During the six years, my breast pump accompanied me to a dozen cities, from Columbus to Austin to Berkeley, because as a working reporter, I travel frequently for assignments. For six years, my breast pump and the baby photos I pinned on the pump bag got me through many long nights… The post How I Keep My Breast Pump Clean appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.

In the past year, formula shortage has caused moms across the US to relactate to feed their babies. Relactation is when moms start breastfeeding again after a gap. That gap might be as little as a few days, or as long as several weeks or even months. There are different reasons why moms want to relactate, including changing their… The post We Knew What Is Relactation. Now We Know How. appeared first on San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition.