Because Breastfeeding is Beautiful

Please support Singapore’s Breastfeeding Mothers’ Support Group (BMSG) in its “Together We Breastfeed” event!

Details below:

Please come join the Group in celebrating the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2007 by making history with a Guinness World Record feat. Be part of the group that will help attempt a Synchronised Breastfeeding Worldwide record where participants from different country will breastfeed at exactly the same LOCAL time (10 am) in their Time Zone. Initiated by the Children for Breastfeeding Inc. of the Philippines, BMSG(S) is representing Singapore for this World Record feat. BMSG(S) is organising this event together with the Macpherson CC Family Life Champions. There will also be a party with lots of food, fun and sharing. What’s more? There is also lucky draw waiting for. Be sure to join us!

Date : 8 August 07 (Wednesday)
Time : 9 am – 1 pm
Venue: MacPhereson CC, Theatrette, 400 Paya Lebar Way, Singapore 379131
Registration fee: Individual (Mum only) @ $2 Family (up to 2 Adults & 2 Child) @ $5

IMPORTANT – PLEASE TAKE NOTE:
Please arrive latest by 9:15am because the breastfeeding has to start at 10am on the dot. No exceptions.
A minimum of 25 mothers is required to register as a Guinness World Record site. Please help us make this record in the Guinness World Record Book!
Strictly no pacifiers, bottles, milk or baby foods are allowed inside the Theatrette as it will disqualify us as a record site. If you need to bring them, you have to leave them outside the venue and we are not responsible for any loss.We hope to see you there! Please pre-register in advance by calling the office at 6337 0508 or email to office@breastfeeding.org.sg

BMSG has also invited Mrs. Doris Fok, Lactation Consultant, to give a talk and answer questions about breastfeeding. Topic for her talk is “Why breastfeed for so long?”.

Hurry up! Sign-up now and give your baby a wonderful present by playing a part in the making of a Guinness World Record.

For more information, please log on to www.breastfeeding.org.sg 

Today is August 1, marking the start of World Breastfeeding Week. 

Organised by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), this year’s WBW campaign emphasises the importance of early initiation of breastfeeding - within the first hour of life - to save children’s lives.   WBW brings together a concerted effort to promote immediate skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby after birth and a continued campaign to encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a baby’s life.

Initiation of breastfeeding within the 1st hour of birth is a vital step towards reducing infant mortality. 

Save ONE million babies - beginning with one action, one hour support and one message: beginning breastfeeding within the 1st hour of birth!

For more information, please log on to:

http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/ 

Where do you pump at work or while away from your baby? I’ve used meeting rooms at work, toilets at work, nursing rooms in shopping malls, hotel toilets. Sometimes, you just have to be creative.

The authors of  ‘The Milk Memos’ talk about their practical and often funny guide for mothers who want to keep nursing after they go back to work.

Read more here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19002095/site/newsweek/?from=rss

Up to 4,000 mothers in the Philippines have attempted to set a world record for breastfeeding simultaneously.  The mothers nursed in day care centres, hospitals and community health centres as part of a campaign organised by UNICEF and other breastfeeding advocacy groups to raise awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding.  

Read more at:  

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKMAN17826020070502 

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/may/03/yehey/top_stories/20070503top6.html  

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/40752/Thousands-of-Filipino-mothers-breast-feed-simultaneously