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World Breastfeeding Week Celebrated at Livingston, N.J. --Breastfeeding is the way many families start out feeding their babies. Physicians around the world recommend that babies need no other food beside mother's milk until six months old “When babies start solid foods they still need the nutrition and protection offered by their mother's milk,” explains Susan Yoskowitz, R.N., IBCLC, Clinical Coordinator for The Family Care Center at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. Highlighting the importance of continuing to breastfeed after babies reach six months of age was the theme of World Breastfeeding Week, held August 1 through 7, 2005, “Breastfeeding and Family Foods: Loving and Healthy.” In recognition, Saint Barnabas Medical Center offered a series of free breastfeeding classes to it patients and their family members. Classes were well attended and included subject matter such as getting started, how grandparents can help, breast pump instruction and the nutritional needs of breastfeeding mothers.
Date: August 12, 2005 Contact: Samantha Anton, 973-322-9904 [ top ] |
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