I had an absolutely packed but very fulfilling October! As I was at Seatle's Bastyr U for lactation education during the day, I was also working preparing for Gentle Birth Philippines' Gentle Birth Open Forum with CNN Hero, Ibu Robin Lim. It was a rollercoaster of emotions of balancing school work and coordinating event details.… Continue reading CNN Hero Ibu Robin Lim for Gentle Birth Open Forum in Manila!
Category: UN MDG 2014
Milk Mama Diaries: Top 10 things to know about HIV and Breastfeeding
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,… Continue reading Milk Mama Diaries: Top 10 things to know about HIV and Breastfeeding
Milk Mama Diaries present Guest Writer Lola Robin Lim: Human Rights: Infant Rights At Birth
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,… Continue reading Milk Mama Diaries present Guest Writer Lola Robin Lim: Human Rights: Infant Rights At Birth
Milk Mommy Diaries: Guest Writer, 2011 CNN Hero Ibu Robin: Childbirth A Global Push
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,… Continue reading Milk Mommy Diaries: Guest Writer, 2011 CNN Hero Ibu Robin: Childbirth A Global Push
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,… Continue reading Improving Maternal Lives Through Global Cooperation: a Milk Mama Diaries
United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Our Global Mission
What is the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs)? The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight specific goals to be met by 2015 (~less than 1.3 years to go) that aims to combat extreme poverty across the world. These goals were agreed by United Nations Member States at the UN Millennium Summit in New… Continue reading United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Our Global Mission
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… Continue reading Breastfeeding Awareness Month 2014: Unang Yakap