| Showing the Power Of Breastfeeding |
| Tue, August 13, 2013 |
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     Last week, was international breast-feeding week, and in An effort to promote breast feeding – on Saturday in Corozal the Ministry of Health teamed up with Art in The Park to host an event – that celebrated the art of breast feeding.
Now, there's still some social stigma about breast feeding in public, but the competition hoped to dispel that and encourage this most public act of nurturing.
Robyn Daly explained:
Robyn Daly - Nutritionist, Ministry of Health
"This year we wanted to do something different for World Breastfeeding Week so we got an idea from PAHO Washington - they did a photo contest for World Breastfeeding week so we decided to adapt the same concept and we did one here. We had very good feedback with the contest, with our exhibition that we have out here you can look around - the photos are really excellent. We had good submissions and we want to make it a yearly thing. We had about 35 entries, so hopefully next year as we continue our promotion we will probably get another 50 or 60 and we want to be able use these photos to use in our hospitals and our clinics to showcase that mothers are practicing breastfeeding and it's something to be proud of."
Jessica Sutherland - Winner, Trial Farm
"We brainstormed about it and we took a lot of pictures and we had a lot of ideas and we came about with the winning picture. I encourage Breastfeeding because you can do it anywhere, you don't have to take a lot of bottle."
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