The invitations to the Breast-feeding Forum Wednesday at College Park required a little ... communication, said Jane Miller, who sent out the queries.
"Businesses look at this and say, 'What does breast-feeding have to do with me?" said Miller, breast-feeding coordinator with the WIC Program in Grand Island. "We know if affects babies healthwise, but what we're trying to tell people is that it affects everyone."
Overcoming barriers, challenges and the "giggle factor" as they pertain to breast-feeding was the goal of the forum, which met at College Park. The forum drew about 40 people and is one of two such forums in the state organized by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Office of Family Health.
Paula Eurek, the administrator for the office, said the goal was to get people of all stripes to assess the barriers that breast-feeding mothers might have, and figure out a plan on local and state levels to deal with it. That goal was pretty much met, as everyone from breast-feeding mothers to administrators in the health field showed up to give their two cents.
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