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First lady Michelle Obama will be speaking out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, Politics Daily has learned, throwing the spotlight on nursing as a way to reduce childhood obesity.
(Note, article has pics of women breastfeeding.) Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing
First lady Michelle Obama will be speaking out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, Politics Daily has learned, throwing the spotlight on nursing as a way to reduce childhood obesity.
(Note, article has pics of women breastfeeding.) Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing
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GET OUTTA MY BOSOM, MICHELLE.
Dear Ford, if you don't want to nurse you don't have to....no one will force you....where did you get the idea Ms. Obama would make you????
Poor attempt at sarcasm. I'm guessing that the upshot is that the OP still doesn't get why people don't want the First Lady, and the gov't in general, attempting to engineer what kind of restaurants, grocery stores, etc are ok, and how much sodium companies can put in the food they offer for sale.
If this breastfeeding thing means that the First Lady has decided to target infants and butt out of what older children and adults are eating, then it's good news in any case.
Since her "issue" as First Lady is "childhood obesity" and breast fed infants are generally not as obese later on as formula fed infants, I don't see any problem with her encouraging breast feeding. Breast feeding is much more common today than it was several years ago and the La Leche League has advocated breast feeding for decades. Why is this the least bit "political" or "controversial"?
"While 75 percent of women initially breastfeed their baby, after six months only 43 percent are still breastfeeding at all," Jarrett wrote. "One of the most common reasons mothers cite for discontinuing breastfeeding is returning to work and not having break time or a private space to express milk. Many studies have shown these types of worksite supports help women continue to breastfeed after returning to work."
When I was growing up in the 60's and early 70's, (in a middle class neighborhood) virtually no mothers with young children worked. The fathers made enough to raise a family on a single paycheck. They didn't have to worry about finding a place to pump breastmilk at work, because they didn't have to go back to work weeks after delivering junior. Now it is necessary to earn two paychecks--one for the family, and the other to pay the taxes. Just another example of how government breaks your leg, then magnanimously offers you a 'free' crutch.
As long as they reduce WIC by an even amount who cares?
Breast feeding mothers can get WIC supplements for themselves.
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