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Mom's Milk Anywhere is a mother-to-mother support organization dedicated to helping moms become confident and comfortable while nursing in public and to support breastfeeding moms as they advocate for themselves at home, at work, and in the world at large. We host public gatherings where moms can breastfeed in a safe, supportive atmosphere and host workshops on overcoming social and cultural obstacles to breastfeeding for new moms. We are currently lobbying the Oregon legislature to pass a bill securing accommodation for mothers who need to breastfeed or pump at work and pressing for passage of the Breastfeeding Promotion Act by Congress. To receive updates about MomMA gatherings and other breastfeeding advocacy news, subscribe to our email list.

Support Oregon Moms Who Pump at Work!

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Diane Garrett, the Nursing Mothers Counsel's legislative lobbyist (a volunteer, mind you!), Oregon has a new bill that would require employers of 25 or more employees to provide time and space to employees to express milk. You can read House Bill 2372 here. If enacted into law as it is written, this would effect 10% of businesses employing 70% of Oregon workers.

On January 31st, Diane and MomMA co-founder Chris Musser met with House Speaker Jeff Merkley (D-East Portland), as well as aides of Representative Carolyn Tomei (D-Milwaukie) and Speaker Pro Tempore Representative Diane Rosenbaum (D-SE Portland). We had a great conversation about deflecting opposition to the bill as well as seeking broader support from the business community. The House Human Services and Women's Wellness Committee may hear testimony on the bill as early as next week. We are looking for moms who are willing to share their "pumping at work" stories, good and bad, with the committee. If you've always wanted to get involved in the legislative process, here's your chance!

We also need you, as constituents, to contact your representatives and ask them to support this measure. You can send an email. This is an quick, easy, and important bit that everyone can do to help get this measure passed. You can be sure lobbyists for business interest will be working against this bill--make sure your voice is heard in favor of it!

Welcome Speaker Pelosi's New Grandbaby and
Urge Her to Support the Breastfeeding Promotion Act!

The group that helped organize the airport nurse-ins nationwide now has a plan to help Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi become very aware that the Breastfeeding Promotion Act is important to American women and that we desire and expect her support of it. Rep. Carolyn Maloney is going to reintroducing the Act this coming session. This will be the BPA's third introduction and if we all get behind it and make our voices heard, perhaps the third time will be the charm!

Here's what you can do to help:

  • Purchase or make a "Congratulations on the New Grandbaby" card. The Speaker and the press have made much of the fact that she is a grandmother and that she was awaiting grandbaby #6 right around Election Day. Paul Michael Vos, son of Alexandra Pelosi and Michiel Vos was born in New York on November 13, 2006.
  • .Write in the card that breastfeeding is a basic human right of all babies and that their mothers need public policies that support the decision to start and continue breastfeeding. Ask her to throw the full weight of her position behind getting the Breastfeeding Promotion Act passed this coming session.
  • Have your friends, family, and fellow breastfeeding advocates sign your card before you mail it to Speaker Pelosi. If you can, buy several cards, collect signatures from supportive friends, and mail them out with your own.
  • Forward information to every mother, friend, listserv, breastfeeding support group and parenting site you know so that others can also send a card. The idea is to get hundreds if not thousands of signatures/cards sent to Nancy Pelosi's office right now so that, by the time the Breastfeeding Promotion Act is reintroduced, she and her staff will have it on their radar.

Mail cards to:

Representative Nancy Pelosi
2371 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515

Here are some other actions you can take:

  • Learn more about the Breastfeeding Promotion Act and talk about it with people you know.
  • Sign the MomRising petition in support of the Breastfeeding Promotion Act.
  • Write a letter to your local newspaper about the importance of breastfeeding and the need for policy change that protects and promotes breastfeeding.
  • Write a letter to Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, urging her to press again for passage of the Breastfeeding Promotion Act.
  • Write to your own congressional delegates and ask them to support this legislation.

MomMA Latte
Come enjoy the company of other nursing moms and publicly demonstrate the beauty and decency of breastfeeding. See our Events page for more details.

Ongoing, we will host have a support meeting on the second Monday of the month at New Seasons Market, NE 33rd & Killingsworth, from 7pm to 9pm. If you're a new mom who wishes to nurse in public for the first time in a safe, supportive atmosphere, join us. If you want to become involved with local, grassroots breastfeeding advocacy, join us.

Nurse in Public. Nurse in Peace.

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