1. Women Need Support to Breastfeed Successfully All About Breastfeeding www.aabreastfeeding.com [email_address] 5/25/09 All About Breastfeeding Lori J. Isenstadt, IBCLC

3. Life begins here …. 5/25/09 All About Breastfeeding Lori J. Isenstadt, IBCLC

5. Science Support Science is catching up to what parents already know. Babies were born to breastfeed. 5/25/09 All About Breastfeeding Lori J. Isenstadt, IBCLC

6. Risk of neonatal mortality according to time of initiation of breastfeeding Pediatrics 2006;117:380-386 Six times more risk of death

7. Deaths attributed to sub-optimal breastfeeding among children May 2009

8. Impact of Suboptimum breastfeeding on child mortality and DALYs May 2009 All About Breastfeeding Due to Non- EBF Due to Non- EBF 1.4 million deaths due to suboptimum breastfeeding 43.5 million DALYs due to suboptimum breastfeeding

10. Exclusive breastfeeding Reduces HIV Transmission Risk 5/25/09 All About Breastfeeding Lori J. Isenstadt, IBCLC Lancet , 31 March 2007

12. Women All Over the World Need Support

13. Women at work …need support Crèches etc.

14. What matters to succeed

21. 5/25/09 All About Breastfeeding Lori J. Isenstadt, IBCLC How does the mother’s confidence play part Breastmilk Transfer Thinks lovingly of baby CONFIDENCE Sound of baby Sight of baby Pain Worry Stress Doubt

23. Women need help of this kind… Wouldn’t it be nice if this environment existed in every community!

25. One way to Support is to Sign up

26. Mum power: The friends from ante-natal class converge on McDonald's for the feed-in. Maddie Reynolds is fourth from the left This looks like so much fun. I just want to join them.

27. Make breastfeeding visible, and more widely available !! All About Breastfeeding Lori J. Isenstadt, IBCLC The First Lady of Timor Leste at 7 th Ministerial Consultation on Children Thank you