Improving Maternal Lives Through Global Cooperation: a Milk Mama Diaries

Welcome to the Milk Mama Diaries Carnival (August). For this month, we write about the World Breastfeeding Week 2014 - Breastfeeding: A Winning Goal for Life and share how breastfeeding can help the Philippines achieve the 8 Millennium Development Goals developed by the government and the United Nations. Participants will share their thoughts, experiences, hopes,…

Breastfeeding Awareness Month 2014: Unang Yakap

#BF1st1000days  What is "Unang Yakap" (First Embrace)? The Department of Health launched the Unang Yakap Campaign on December 7, 2009. With this campaign, the DOH aims to cut down infant mortality in the Philippines by at least half, termed as Essential Newborn Care (ENC) / Essential Intrapartum and Newborn Care or EINC. It is a simple…

Homebirthing in the Philippines: Gentle Birth Made Possible

28 June 2014 (Saturday) - The very first public open forum for birthing option, called "Gentle Birth Made Possible", held in UP Diliman's College for Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) sponsored by Arugaan Foundation, Woman Health Philippines, Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) and the Department of Women and Development Studies of CSWCD, UP Diliman. [FYI: Before anything, no…

Late Update: The Great Cloth Diaper Challenge 2014

Saturday, 26 April 2014 - I remember the time when the traditional cloth diapers consisted of a folded square or rectangle of linen cloth, cotton flannel, or stockinet, which was fastened with safety pins. It looked like the below. Today, this type of diaper is referred to as a flat. The flat is still commonly used around…

Featured : UNTV guesting #3 – Spinning Babies

06 May 2014, Tuesday Velvet (Escario-Roxas) and I were again invited to talk about Alternative Birth to continue with UNTV's health section - Topic is Spinning Babies and Belly Mapping. It was a really interesting and fun talk. Our third appearance as of date. Here it is...for those you missed out on watching Velvet and me on…

Featured: UNTV guesting #2 – Alternative Births

29 April 2014, Tuesday What an honor...to be invited again! Velvet and I were invited again to UNTV's Rise & Shine to discuss the different types of births. I had to do a few research since I was quite unfamiliar with these but my research proved to be a success. I am surprised that a…

Featured : Birth Options (UNTV)

29 April 2014, Tuesday What an honor...to be invited again! Velvet and I were invited again to UNTV's Rise & Shine to discuss the different types of births. I had to do a few research since I was quite unfamiliar to these but my research proved to be a success. I am surprised that a…