WELCOME!
The Ohio Breastfeeding Alliance (OBA) welcomes mothers/families, professionals, researchers, business owners and all who share our vision to improve the health of Ohio’s citizens by promoting, supporting and protecting breastfeeding in our progressive state.
We invite you to work collaboratively with us to create breastfeeding-friendly communities throughout Ohio that exceed United States Healthy People goals for breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration.
Our hope is to provide a website that offers the resources and tools you need to promote, support and protect breastfeeding in your Ohio community.
Enjoy your visit… but please return soon (and often) for updated news, events, OBA member information, plus details about upcoming OBA meetings.
- Ohio Breastfeeding Alliance/ Ohio's Statewide Breastfeeding Coalition
Click here to download and open the 2011 membership form. If you have not yet renewed your membership please print this form and mail today. Larger donations all always appreciated.
Our statewide coalition here in Ohio has been busy .
Ohio had 15 in attendance at the recent United States Breastfeeding Committee meeting held January 23-26 , 2010 in Washington DC.
We sent 6 members to Capital Hill to speak with legislators about the Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009. Members met with Senator Voinovich's office (R), Senator Sherrod Brown's Office (D), Rep. Jean Schmidt's Office (R), and Rep. Mike Turner's Office. What a great day!
MamaToToMatema (MTM), a Task Force project of the Ohio Breastfeeding Alliance, is committed to increasing breastfeeding rates among African American families, which ultimately will improve the physical and mental health of the entire population. Our goal is to create breastfeeding-friendly African American communities by teaching healthcare, organization or agency, church and other community leaders how they can promote breastfeeding and support new mothers. By sharing optimal breastfeeding “how-to” practices with them, MTM provides the knowledge and support needed by the people new mothers turn to for breastfeeding information and support.
Childcare Project For Training Daycare Workers, OBA has almost completed work on this new project which will be available for use by members and member organizations, to train daycare personal in the care and needs of breastfeeding infants. The differences between infants who are exclusively breastfeeding and or receiving only human milk may vary from what some daycare workers see in the infants that they typically care for who receive only artifical feeds, or in infants who are not accoustomed to being fed by artifical means. Handling of human milk varies from that of artificial milks and lack of knowledge in handling can result in wasting of precious human milk.
Many breastfeeding moms carry their infants in slings or carriers, these infants may do better in day care settings when providers understand these subtle but real differences. Rocking or singing to the infants before putting them down to sleep may also help in easing the transition to care from those other than mom providing care.
