Although we have already celebrated the World Breastfeeding Week 2015 during the first week of August (from August 1 to 7), as it is a holiday period in Europe, the European Breastfeeding Week 2015 which starts yesterday, first Sunday of October.
The date is not accidental. The week 41 of the year has been chosen, when the baby is usually started breastfeeding after birth at 40 weeks, if he was born on January 1. This year, under the motto "Breastfeeding and working, let's make it possible" It is intended to inform and support women so that the return to work is not an impediment to breastfeeding.
# SMLM2015: Five clear objectives
Join efforts multi-dimensional from all sectors to make it easier for women to work and breastfeed everywhere.
Develop actions by employers that are Friendly with Families / Babies / and Mothers, and that actively support working mothers to continue breastfeeding.
Report on the latest advances in the protection and protection of Maternity Rights throughout the world and raise awareness of the need to strengthen national laws and their application.
Share, facilitate and strengthen the practices that help breastfeeding women who work in the informal sectors.
Commit and work with specific groups, such as: Rights of Women Workers, Women, Youth and Trade Unions to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in their workplaces.
Breastfeeding and working is difficult, but possible
It is not easy, we know it, but it is possible. There are many things that should improve so that working women can continue to offer the best food to their babies when they have to return to work.
A maternity leave of six months It is a claim that has been requested for years and is one of the most important measures that mothers need to breastfeed and work as possible, in addition to greater support from companies providing flexibility of hours, children's centers in the sites of work, comfortable spaces to express the milk and refrigerators for safe storage.
AdvertisingDespite the obstacles that working mothers have, it is important to know that weaning the baby when starting work is not recommended, because in addition to food (the best there can be for a newborn) your milk gives you immunity against diseases.
And we must not forget that breastfeeding is also a mode of relationship. He physical contact is a basic need of the newborn, as much as feeding, and that can only be given by placing your baby to the breast.
