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Businesses enjoy return on investment in breastfeeding-friendly workplace
Employers who provide a space where employees can express and store milk or breastfeed a baby quickly realize the benefits of doing so. According to the New Mexico Breastfeeding Task…
Read MoreThe Breastfeeding Movement Is Experiencing a Tech Revolution—Here’s How It’s Helping New Moms
On a humid weekend in June, a teal RV decorated with the Pumpspotting logo—a heart with the circle-dot doodle of a breast—rumbled into Detroit. The two-year-old start-up, whose app offers a crowd-sourced…
Read MoreThere’s help with breastfeeding for Las Cruces moms
More than a dozen Las Cruces mothers sat on sofas around a large room on a recent day, quietly breastfeeding their babies. Their older children, mainly toddlers, happily pushed toys across…
Read MoreBreastfeeding Behind Bars
by Monica Esparza, Deputy Director, NMBTF In August 2017, NM District 1 Court ruled that breastfeeding is a constitutional right under the NM Equal Rights Amendment and held that NM Corrections…
Read MoreHacking Traditional Native Regalia for Easier Breastfeeding
When we heard about the MIT’s Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon, we knew we needed to represent New Mexico. Knowing the importance of breastfeeding in reproductive justice, we…
Read MoreFrom Anger to Action
by Lissa Knudsen, Board Chair Growing up with a veterinarian father and on 21 rural acres, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time around nursing foals, lambs,…
Read MoreBreastfeeding is healthy for mothers, babies
Las Crucen Stacie Justus, 28, always knew that she wanted to breastfeed. “It’s something my mom did for both me and my sister and I wanted to do that for…
Read MoreLegislative Roundup
New Mexico women could use Medicaid to pay for lactation consultants under a bill advanced by the House Health and Human Services Committee this week. Read more
Read MoreThe Many Benefits of Breastfeeding
By EMILY GUERRA September 12, 2015 – Las Cruces, NM – On this edition of PUENTES, bridges to the community, Emily Guerra meets with New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force Registered…
Read MoreKimberly Smetzer and Marisol Kearny: Local hospitals, employers support nursing mothers
As local health-care practitioners and members of the New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force, we felt it was important to celebrate National Breastfeeding Month by outlining some of the exciting developments…
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