SEASONS GREETINGS AND REFLECTIONS ON 2018
This year, BC’s childbearing families and babies have been given a present of new provincial and health region signage. The International Breastfeeding Symbol has been endorsed as a BC sign to remind communities of babies and parents’ human right to breastfeed at anytime and anywhere. We celebrate this provincial support for babies’ feeding needs and are delighted that North Vancouver City is the first municipality to display the International Breastfeeding Symbol (See photograph below).
We appreciate that the sign suggests all ways of feeding a baby are welcome! As how an individual parent feeds their baby is their choice that is to be respected. At the same time, we trust that signage like this will contribute toward parents that want to biologically feed their babies, feeling comfortable and confident to do so and that people in their community will be reminded to support babies’ right to feed, in a similar way that a stop sign or a handicap parking sign is observed.
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Vera was also surprised and delighted in the fall of 2018 to be given the honor of being Midwives Association of BC’s September Midwife of the Month, in BC Midwives 2018 founding midwives series. The experience of reminiscing about the implementation of midwifery into BC’s healthcare system and what has been collectively achieved during two decades of practice was validating on a personal, as well as collective level. Click on the link below to find out more…