Title: BREASTFEEDING COMMITTEE

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Section/SPIG: Maternal and Child Health

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The MCH Breastfeeding and Infant Nutrition Committee will meet Sunday, Nov. 5, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  It is listed as session 221.0, which will assist you in finding the room at the Convention Center. Everyone interested in breastfeeding and infant nutrition is encouraged to attend – grab a cup of coffee and a breakfast roll and come join us.  The agenda will include developing an updated policy statement to put forward in light of the new WHO recommendations on breastfeeding and infant nutrition. There will also be discussion of the national “Ban the Bags” campaign and other issues of interest to the group. The Breastfeeding Committee has three oral sessions and three poster sessions this year – great job, everyone, on getting abstracts submitted!! For one session, we have invited Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, IBCLC, FACBM to present a featured presentation entitled “Breastfeeding in 2006: More Important than Ever,” on Wednesday from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Miriam is director of the new Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health. We hope to see many of you at all of the sessions! For more information contact Laura Duckett ducke001@umn.edu or Mary Rose Tully mrwtully@bellsouth.net, co-chairs.