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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 03, 1993
Page
7
The BC Baby Friendly Network marks World Breastfeeding Week by urging BC communities and workplaces to support breastfeeding. The Mother-Friendly Workplace Initiative aims to improve facilities and home and community support, as 80 percent of new moms start breastfeeding but few continue beyond six months.
Elisabeth Helsing notes that restricting breastfeeding for working mothers harms families and society. Benefits include healthier children and reduced health costs, while measures such as the Innocents Declaration and Mother-Friendly Workplace Initiative push for maternity leave, flexible schedules, and supportive environments. The WHO and ILO seek reinforced protections in policy.
List of ten policy steps to support breastfeeding workers in Canada. Protect maternity leave and job security. offer flexible hours, part time work, longer breaks, and job sharing. Provide on site childcare, breastfeeding breaks, private lactation spaces, and safe workplace. Promote positive attitudes, clean environment, and notify workers and unions about rights. Build supportive women networks in unions or groups.
If harassed for breastfeeding, report to your provincial Human Rights Commission. Persist, as complaints are rare and officers may need explanation of why it is discrimination or why an alternative feeding space is insufficient. Seek help from women's rights groups or La Leche League. Legal precedent links pregnancy discrimination to sex discrimination, noting breastfeeding is an extension of pregnancy and unique to women.
The Chetwynd Breastfeeding Support Group continues to meet the first and third Wednesday each month. It has a growing resource library and a pamphlet distributed by Welcome Wagon, Mountainview Medical Clinic, and the Peace River Health Unit. The group visits new moms at home and in hospital, invites expectant parents and breastfeeding families, and welcomes siblings.
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