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News Release
August
16, 2005
Fairborn Woman Wins World Breastfeeding Week
Essay Contest
(XENIA,
OH) Lindsey Warner of Fairborn is the winner of the Breastfeeding Awareness
Month essay contest sponsored by the WIC Program at the Greene County Combined
Health District. The contest is part of the WIC Program’s celebration of
Breastfeeding Awareness Month during the month of August. Lindsey was announced
as the winner of the contest at the Breastfeeding Awareness Month baby shower
held at the Health District on August 10th.
“Breastfeeding
and Family Foods: Loving and Healthy” is the theme chosen for this year’s
Breastfeeding Awareness Month. This theme highlights the importance of
continuing to breastfeed after babies reach six months of age. Physicians around
the world recommend that babies need no other food besides mother’s milk until
six months old. When babies start solid foods they still need the nutrition and
protection offered by their mother’s milk.
Lindsay
Warner’s winning essay:
I
am currently breastfeeding my daughter. I
chose to breastfeed because it is best for my baby, but nobody ever told me that
breastfeeding would be the most heartfelt experience of my life, there is such a
powerful feeling when I am nursing my daughter.
When my daughter is feeding, nothing exists but her.
All my thoughts and worries seem to all be okay for that short amount of
time. I know they don’t
completely go away, but for that 20-minute span of time, my only worry is her.
The bond that comes along with breastfeeding is unimaginable.
It’s a bond that can only happen between a mother and her children.
I can pay so much attention to the little things while I am nursing my
daughter. I pay attention to those
beautiful blue eyes staring at me.
I often think, “I wonder what is on
her mind?” I notice every little
wrinkle on her nose and I often think that if she would nurse just a few minutes
longer, I could count each eyelash.
I
love the way she rests all 5 little fingers on my chest, placed almost perfectly
over my heart like she knows she’s the reason it’s beating.
I love how warm her skin feels against mine while she’s nursing.
All of these are reasons I know I will breastfeed any children I have in
the future, and would
encourage
anyone else to do the same. You
can’t feel the same with formula feeding. Breastfeeding is the best feeling.
For more information about
breastfeeding, contact Nancy Cohen, RD, LD, IBCLC, WIC Breastfeeding Coordinator
at the Greene County Combined Health District,
937- 374-5642 or toll-free
1-866-858-3588, extension 5642, or the WIC Breastfeeding Peer Helpers at
937-374-5600 or toll-free 1-866-858-3588.
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District – Your center for public health services and health information in
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