We Need Your Booby Trap Stories for the US Surgeon General & The Press by Jan. 18
by Bettina Forbes, CLC | January 11, 2011 11:19 am
On January 19 and 20, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is convening a briefing and press conference to announce the Call to Action for Breastfeeding. Best for Babes co-founders Danielle Rigg and Bettina Forbes have been invited to attend this briefing and press conference as new members of the United States Breastfeeding Committee, and have been advanced as specialists on moms, the Booby Traps they face, and how to help them achieve their personal goals. We aim to share our point of view with the Surgeon General and the media that the key to unlocking this stubborn problem is by focusing on eradicating the cultural and institutional barriers that actively prevent moms from succeeding, not simply educating about the benefits. We are prepared to outline our plan of shifting the pressure OFF moms and on to the Booby Traps by aligning the business, non-profit, government, celebrity and citizen sectors behind a cohesive game plan that markets breastfeeding as mainstream and rebuilds the shattered breastfeeding infrastructure. We will share our intention to build the mother of all causes and rally the masses, whether they breastfed, or not, were breastfed or not, behind this public health crisis that affects all of us. We will talk about our specific strategy to harness the power of moms to bring about positive, constructive change so that our daughters, sisters and friends do not have to suffer as we did.
We need your stories and your voice. We have specifically been advised that the media will want to hear about real moms and real stories. If you have been booby-trapped by your physician, hospital, health care professional, health care provider, insurance company, employer, restaurant, airport, school etc. and by the lack of public acceptance of breastfeeding, now is your chance! Please leave your story below so we can direct the media. Our goal is to have 100 stories by Tuesday, January 18th. If we have a thousand, we’d be even happier! There are millions of moms who have been booby-trapped from wanting to breastfeed, trying to breastfeed, or achieving their breastfeeding goals. Read our list of Booby Traps to refresh your memory . . . and feel free to speak to booby traps that we have missed.
All we ask is that you keep your story personal, and that only moms who gave birth or breastfed in the US participate. Please share this page with your friends and colleagues. It is individual stories that inspire and motivate and bring about change, and the American public needs to hear about the profound struggles and suffering by moms and babies who are being thwarted by a gauntlet of barriers daily. The media, the Surgeon General and key stakeholders need to hear the degree to which moms are being pressured to breastfeed but set up to fail.
The floor is yours!
Source URL: http://www.bestforbabes.org/we-need-your-booby-trap-stories-for-the-us-surgeon-general-the-press-by-jan-18
