Welcome to the New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition

MISSION STATEMENT

The New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition is a collaboration of health professionals and community representatives whose mission is to identify and reduce medical, social and economic barriers to breastfeeding in New Jersey through education and outreach.

 

Please join the NJ Breastfeeding Coalition to help fulfill our mission.

 

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Next Meeting
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Centrastate Medical Center
Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus
**Health Awareness Center***
901 West Main Street (Route 537), Suite 100
Freehold, NJ  07728


IN THE NEWS:

NJ Department of Health Releases Proposed Regulations on Infant Feeding for Public Comment

The proposed regulations would ensure that hospitals provide mothers the information and assistance they need to effectively breastfeed, to feed expressed milk or to formula feed their infants and would require that hospital staff have the necessary training and skills to help mothers succeed at their chosen method of feeding, according to Ellen Maughan, IBCLC, president of the New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition.  For more information, see http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/02/new_breastfeeding_guidelines_p.html

 

Two More NJ Hospitals Are Recognized as Baby Friendly

The NJ Breastfeeding Coalition wishes to congratulate CentraState Medical Center in Freehold and Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune for achieving the Baby Friendly designation.

Congratulations to the University Hospital of the University Medicine and Dentistry and Kennedy University Hospital!
These two hospitals have been selected with 88 others from across the US to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a national collaborative learning initiative designed  to increase the number of US hospitals implementing a proven model for maternity services that better supports a new mother’s choice to breastfeed. This initiative is being funded by National Institute for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) through a cooperative funding agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) .  For more information about Best Fed Beginnings, see http://www.nichq.org/who_we_are/in_the_news.html?id=80

Two Hospitals Become First in NJ to Receive Baby-Friendly Designation

The New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition warmly congratulates South Jersey Healthcare Elmer Hospital and Capital Health Medical Center Hopewell on their designation as New Jersey’s first two Baby-Friendly hospitals.   MORE

 

Baby-Friendly Hospital Rap Video Released

Breastfeeding Coalition of Oregon  and Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition  collaborated to create a rap music video about evidence-based hospital maternity care practices, with support from the NJ Breastfeeding Coalition.  Watch it here.