Breastfeeding Challenge Oct 1

[windwardskies]

Nursing mothers and their families are encouraged to attend the 3rd annual Hawaii Breastfeeding Challenge. The Challenge is a celebration in support of breastfeeding, and features free live entertainment, rereshments, and door prizes.

The event takes place from 10am to noon on Saturday October 1 on the State Capitol lawn (ewa side). Please bring a blanket or beach chair to sit on.

Click here (http://www.hawaiimoms.org/bfc05_flyer.pdf) to download the event flyer.

To register, go to http://www.hawaiimoms.org/register.php or call 947-6920. All participants who register by Sept 29 will get a free T-shirt.

We're also looking for donations (tax deductible through MothersCare) so if you or your company can donate something for a door prize we'd be grateful!

[mel]

~ ~ Latch-on ~ ~

[Palolo Joe]

Wonder what the MILF quotient will be like... :eek:

[Langi]

What is a MILF? :confused:

[kimo55]

don't even go there.

[kahalabrah]

are spectators allowed?

[1stwahine]

I live a 15 min. walk from the State Capital. My daughter is deployed and I'm Antonio's grandmother...so no breast feeding for him. Still, I sure would like to attend the festivities and enjoy the entertainment, and let him play with other babies too! Could I still go without being part of the so called "Breastfeeding Challenge?" Then again, one look at me :eek: ...and they might do a double take cause he looks like me! :D :D

Auntie Lynn

[Glen Miyashiro]

What is a MILF? :confused:Clearly, Palolo Joe meant the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILF). Right, PJ? :D

[Palolo Joe]

Umm... yeah. Langi might want to still click that there link anyway... :rolleyes:

[Peshkwe]

What is a MILF? :confused:

Heh....go rent 'American Pie'

;)

[craigwatanabe]

What is a MILF? :confused:


Hmmm Madonna would be a good example of a MILF. But then again she might beat me up...but then again I just MIGHT LIKE IT!!! :D

I'd love to participate in this challenge but I'm afraid the only boobs my wife will allow me to suckle on is...hmmm actually even that may not be an option for me now :(

MILF...Mothers I'd Love To (Make children with) yeah that's the ticket!! Make love not war, peace bro, here have a flower I'm a Hare Krishna and I love John Lennon...peace out!! :D

[cezanne]

What goes on in these here Breastfeeding Challenges?... if I may ask. Are cameras allowed? :o

[mel]

Mothers and their babies meet in a designated area and at the appointed time, all the Moms started feeding their babies breast milk. Download the flyer in the first post.

[cezanne]

Mothers and their babies meet in a designated area and at the appointed time, all the Moms started feeding their babies breast milk. Download the flyer in the first post.

I still don't get it. What's the challenge?

[mel]

That I'm not so sure, probably to show other parents that breastfeeding is better than bottle feeding???? It sure is cheaper in the fact that you won't have to constantly buy baby formula.

It seems that baby formula is more expensive than gasoline. From this year old study:

Retail prices of infant formula vary widely by brand and by geographic area. For example, the average price of 26 ounces of reconstituted milk-based powder formula marketed by PBM Products in 2000 was $1.56 compared with $2.63 for the Ross brand. The average price of Mead Johnson's milk-based formula was less than $2 in Albany, NY, and greater than $3 in Chicago, IL.

This figure is about 0.203125 of a gallon. Ouch!

Summary page of this study:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/fanrr39-1/summary.htm

Complete report on retail price of infant formula:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/fanrr39-1/

[AbsolutChaos]

I still don't get it. What's the challenge?

The challenge is to get more American women to breast feed and to do so for longer periods of their baby's life and not feel bad about it. Many other countries have mothers who breast feed their babies twice as long in comparison to moms in the US, some even breastfeed for years. Advocates for breast feeding argue that it results in healthier babies and is better for mothers.

However, women often find that breastfeeding is awkward or difficult, given that many of them need to go back to work. They also feel awkward breastfeeding their baby in public, especially with strangers around (remember the whole Barbara Walters complaint about a mother feeding her baby on a plane? Here's a link: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art32659.asp to refresh your memory.) Women were often encouraged to wean their babies to bottles/formula in the past to maintain a certain image in society, and babies often weren't fed any breast milk at all.

I think the point of this is to make women feel that it's ok to breastfeed, that it's worth all the "trouble," and that they don't need to feel uncomfortable about it. It's trying to change the image of breastfeeding into a positive one.

[MadAzza]

I don't really see the point.

Now, a Beerdrinking Challenge ... that's something I could get behind.

[lavagal]

I don't really see the point.

Now, a Beerdrinking Challenge ... that's something I could get behind.

And one of my favorite things to do while nursing was DRINKING BEER!
Now I just drink the beer.

I nursed Kid 1 for 19 months and Kid 2 for 30 months, so I'm kind of an expert. I chalk it up to jitters but nursing the first kid was a bit of a freak out for me in public. My kid would nurse and she'd lift the blanket up not necessarily to show the world my great boobs but to see what was going on around her. The show was just the icing on the cake. By the time I was nursing Kid 2, none of that got to me. Ya wanna watch? WATCH! Sheesh. You don't wanna watch? Then DON'T WATCH.

I'm hoping the reason I have extremely confident and beautiful rocket scientists for daughters is because of mommy milk -- occasionally laced with hops.

[kimo55]

I don't really see the point.

Now, a Beerdrinking Challenge ... that's something I could get behind.

and the more beerdrinking, the more behind I get.
har.

[cezanne]

The challenge is to get more American women to breast feed and to do so for longer periods of their baby's life and not feel bad about it. <snippage>

Oh okay. I thought it was some kinda contest or Breastfeeding Olympics or whatever.

[craigwatanabe]

It is known that babies that are breastfed rather than fed formula in their first few months (six I believe) are less prone to allergies and develop greater immunities to disease.

Milkfat inside a mother's breast milk clings to Neurons inside the baby's brain. It is this nourishment that allows neurons to fire and create links in the brain to support proper brain development.

It comes down to that use it or loose it when it comes to brain stimulation. The first five years of a child is important to their brain development as 90% of what you learn happens in this time frame. The first 6-months are critical to developing the brain's ability to learn. Breastmilk allows the brain to develop properly outside the womb.

Now you understand the importance of breastfeeding an infant. It's critical for them and as our future leaders it's important to our society to give our Keiki the foundation to develop their minds so they'll correct all the things we screwed up. :D