Dr. Bernadette Gray-Little, Provost UNC-CH
Similar to childbirth, breastfeeding is not a shared experience. Many people never see women breastfeeding, it is done as something hidden, in the safety of home or underneath clothing.
Ms. Alice Lenahan, Director, Nutrition Services Branch, NC Division of Public Health
Breastfeeding promotion and protection in North Carolina: Blueprint for action to improve breastfeeding rates in NC
Ms. Barbara Cameron, La Leche League
“Breastfeeding was absent from my personal experiences and any professional or academic discourse.”
College student: passion for reproductive rights, no thoughts about breastfeeding
“Breastfeeding was a way of mothering my children. Unique physical connection with my children and a powerful and healing connection to my own body and femininity.”
“Thinking that baby formula is superior to breast milk is thinking that 30 years of technology is superior to 3000 years of human evolution.” -Christine Northrup, OB-GYN
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