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What SHOULD Happen With Rooming-In Step 7 of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding calls for facilities to “enable mothers and their infants to remain together and to practice rooming-in 24 hours a day.” Regardless of whether a mother is breastfeeding or formula feeding, they should room-in with their newborn. This helps moth...

Congratulations to our very own Ivis Penalver, IBCLC, Assistant Director, Jamaica Hospital WIC Program and Secretary, NYC Breastfeeding Leadership Council, Inc. who is interviewed by Univision about the bill on expanded lactation accommodations in NYS recently signed by Governor Hochul. Great job Ivis! Please share!

Nueva York aprueba una ley sobre espacios para lactancia materna en el trabajo: ¿en qué consiste? Una ley firmada por la gobernadora de Nueva York, Kathy Hochul, ordena ampliar los espacios para que las mujeres que trabajan puedan amamantar a sus bebés en esos lugares. "Antes el requerimiento era para empleadores que tenían 50 empleados o más, pero ya va a ser para todos", explica Ivis Peñal...

Wednesday, August 31st 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM Morrisania WIC Healthy Lifestyles Fair - Virtual Edition
Join us in the Zoom Room https://bit.ly/MorrisaniaWICHealthFair2022
Free Yoga with Nicole Cooking with Jessica Scavenger Hunts
Free Raffles and Prizes and much, much more
See you on Wednesday, August 31st

Happy World Breastfeeding Week 2022 and National Breastfeeding Month!
Please join the NYCBLC, Inc. for our Annual Breastfeeding Subway Caravan! It is VIRTUAL again this year – just to keep everyone healthy and safe!
Dr. Lawrence Noble will present the highlights of the new AAP Breastfeeding Policy. Julie Bouchet Horwitz, IBCLC will share important info about the NY Milk Bank and Breastfeeding. And breastfeeding families will share their stories.
Don’t miss this fun event. Please share with family and friends!
Register now https://tinyurl.com/2022BreastfeedingSubwayCaravan

May is NEC Awareness Month - NEC Society World NEC Awareness Day is May 17.  Necrotizing enterocolitis is a devastating intestinal disease that affects vulnerable infants during their first weeks and months of life. Up to 50% of the babies who get NEC will die, and survivors often...

House Takes Steps to Strengthen WIC’s Response to Infant Formula Recalls National WIC Association: “Immediate actions to shore up supply and provide families with options must be paired with meaningful steps to strengthen resilience in the infant formula manufacturing sector and break up the highly centralized operations that precipitated this supply crisis.”

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Congratulations! Thanks to the WIC community’s advocacy, now through the end of September(!), most kids and moms will automatically get $24-$47/month/person on their eWIC card to buy their favorite fruits and veggies— plus the other healthy foods loaded to their monthly account!

Check your eWIC cards for the automatically added benefits – and be sure to use them before your usual benefit cycle ends! (So get shopping! -- and pls help spread the word!)

All fruits and vegetables (organic, too!) – fresh, frozen or canned - any brand, variety, size. Just make sure there’s no added sugar, syrup, artificial sweeteners, fat or oil.

Here’s a few ideas to easily get the most out of these!

🥑 Try some new fruit or veggies that you’ve never tried for a snack or to add to a salad.
🥦 Snag some frozen and canned fruits and vegetables for smoothies, soups, casseroles, chili, sauces, quesadilla stuffers, or pizza toppings.
🥕 Buy extra veggies for your favorite soups.
🍠 Roast vegetables in the oven for an easy side dish.
🫐 Add fruit to breakfast meals, like cereals, pancakes, or baked muffins.

💜 PS… Local WIC agencies have taken applications and provided benefits and nutrition counseling remotely over the phone during the entire COVID-19 crisis, supporting ~370k participants each month.

💜 Not getting WIC yet? MANY more NYers can! Connect: https://linktr.ee/wicassociationofnys