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two bills on breastfeeding
Two Bills on Breastfeeding
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Two bills on breastfeeding
By Rina Jimenez-David, Inquirer
August 14, 2007
MANILA, Philippines — It’s Breastfeeding Month, and to celebrate the occasion, Sen. Pia Cayetano, who chairs both the committee on health and the committee on environment, has chosen to re-file the Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act.
The draft law was passed in the Senate [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How the bottle ‘sabotages’ breastfeeding
How the bottle ‘sabotages’ breastfeeding
By Tessa Salazar
Published on page B4 of the August 12, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Last updated 11:28pm (Mla time) 08/11/2006
GIVE THE feeding bottle in the early hours after birth, and you seriously compromise a baby’s chance to successfully breastfeed. The mother is bound to fail (to breastfeed) [...]
Breastfeeding is core program of US health campaign
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Breastfeeding is core program of US health campaign
By Linda Bolido
Published on Page C2 of the August 17, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Last updated 00:40am (Mla time) 08/17/2006
“WALANG KUKURAP.” If you do, you may miss the reminder in television advertisements for children’s milk that breast milk is best for babies up to six [...]
Birth and death
Birth and death
By Rina Jimenez-David
Inquirer
Last updated 05:40am (Mla time) 06/24/2007
MANILA, Philippines—Birthing has always been a women’s ritual. Before the natural birth movement brought fathers not just into the labor room but in birth classes too, men were largely absent from the entire process of pregnancy and birth—except, of course, for donating the sperm (knowingly [...]
Breast milk ‘containers’ never rust
Breast milk ‘containers’ never rust
By Rina Jimenez-DavidInquirer
Last updated 03:46am (Mla time) 06/23/2007
MANILA, Philippines — One thing you can say about breast milk — its containers will never “rust.” This brings to mind that old — and corny — joke about the advantages of breast milk, including the fact that “it comes in the most attractive [...]
