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Contact Barbara E: barbara.higham@gmail.com Writer at barbarahigham.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/BreastfeedingPosts/ Editor at womenshealthtoday.blog

When Helping Hurts

How can breastfeeding supporters better empower the mothers they seek to help?

Breastfeeding Beliefs and Attitudes Among Black Americans

Black mothers face barriers to breastfeeding that are both complex and multi-dimensional.

Breastfeeding Disparities and Implications for the Life Course

An approach to address racial disparities in birth outcomes with a specific focus on breastfeeding practices to provide culturally competent care using the Life Course Theory as a framework in the North Carolina Perinatal Health Strategic Plan.

Racializing Postpartum Mothers in Breastfeeding Promotional Contexts

Scientific evidence indicates that race is not biologically and genetically determined, but it is, in fact, a social construct.

Can Breastfeeding Ease the Effects of Racism and Discrimination?

The role of breastfeeding in combatting the effects of racism and discrimination on women's health.

Birth Trauma: Psychological Trauma of Childbirth in Our Time

The sobering statistics of birth trauma, the impact on breastfeeding and ways to help mothers.

Free to Breastfeed

Quotations from black mothers on breastfeeding.

Voices of Black Mothers: A Movement

Black women as complex human individuals, rather than a population with a problem needing to be fixed by others.

Racial Disparities: Considerations for IBCLCs

Celebrating successes and overcoming barriers to racial disparity. Considerations for IBCLCs.

A Mobile Application to Promote Breastfeeding Among Low-income African-American Women

Adapting an app that promotes breastfeeding.

Innovators Addressing Health Inequities within the African-American Community

Four leaders addressing the unfairness within the breastfeeding community.

10 Key Principles for Applying Black Feminist Theory in Public Health

10 principles for public health professionals to apply Black feminist theory in their work in the breastfeeding movement.

Racial Disparity in Infant Mortality

Racial and ethnic health disparity.

7 Steps to Create a Culture of Respect and Inclusivity

How to create a culture of respect and inclusivity in healthcare practice.

Black Women Breastfeed

Closeness of breastfeeding. Women's Health Today.

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