1. Indiana Breastfeeding Coalition (IBC)
A Coalition Working to Build Supportive Community Environments

2. Tina Cardarelli BSEd IBCLC
Director of Breastfeeding Services IPN/IBC

4. Who is represented here today??

5. Developed relationship between schools and key partners
Delivering hospital
WIC program
Breastfeeding coalitions
Helped to establish lines of communication for referrals and informational support
Chronic Disease

6. Who is the ibc and why Do WE Exist?

7. A Little History

9. IBC Mission
To improve public health by making breastfeeding the norm through education, advocacy, and collaboration.

10. IBC Vision
Working together with people throughout the state and from a variety of industries - governmental, nonprofit, health care, etc. - to promote and support breastfeeding.

11. State Coalitions
Community Coalitions

14. When Babies Don’t Breastfeed…
56% higher risk of SIDS
35% higher risk of Asthma (no family history)
67% higher risk of Asthma (with family history)
100% higher risk for Ear Infections
178% higher risk for Diarrhea & Vomiting (Gastrointestinal Infections)
64% higher risk for Type 2 Diabetes
23% higher risk for Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
138% higher risk for Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) in preemies
Risk of lower I.Q. – Average of 8 points lower
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ,2007)
Why aren’t we discussing the “benefits” of breastfeeding? Because breastfeeding is the biologically normal way for babies to eat.
Breastfeeding isn’t something extra or unique.
A human baby is designed to breastfeed and digest human milk.
Babies have always breastfed.
There are not benefits to doing what is normal and routine.
When a baby is fed with a substitute, there are potential risks
ANY amount of breastfeeding is fantastic!!!
New research suggests that ANY amount of breastfeeding can reduce the risk of SIDS.
Formula fed children in America score on average 8 points lower than breastfed children when given cognitive tests.
Studies from around the world confirm the difference in cognitive tests.
This is a quote by a developmental molecular biologist who specializes in the human brain:
“If our culture knew what breast milk could do for its youngest citizens, lactating mothers would be enshrined not embarrassed Breast milk is the equivalent of a magic bullet for a developing baby’s brain and body.” – John Medina

15. When Women Don’t Breastfeed...
They recover more slowly after birth
Have Increased risk of:
Breast Cancer Ovarian Cancer
Endometrial Cancer Cardiovascular Disease
Osteoporosis Type 2 Diabetes
High Blood Pressure Metabolic Syndrome
Anemia Postpartum Depression
The longer a woman breastfeeds, the more her risk of breast cancer goes down
The American Cancer Society now includes breastfeeding when discussing behaviors that can reduce a woman’s risk of breast cancer.
One notable study in an aquatic Asian society, where they typically paddled canoes from one side and had a tradition of breastfeeding ONLY from the opposite breast, found that these women developed MUCH MORE breast cancer in the breast NOT used for breastfeeding.
Breasts are designed to be used to feed babies, and the risk of breast cancer increases when breasts haven’t fed a baby.
It is interesting to note that in many cultures, breasts are NOT objectified like they are in some western cultures.
In many parts of the world, breasts are valued for their ability to nourish babies.

22. In the first year of life there were: 2033 excess office visits
212 excess days of hospitalization
609 excess prescriptions
(per 1000 never-breastfed infants compared with 1000
infants exclusively breastfed for at least 3 months)

23. In addition to having more illnesses, formula-fed infants cost the health care system money.
Health care plans will likely realize substantial savings, as well as providing improved care, by supporting and promoting exclusive breastfeeding.

24. Breastfeeding: priceless to your community
Money saved by families/your community due to money not spent on formula
$9,067, ($5.99x183 days x 8272)
Money saved on reduced health care costs (Less Dr visits and Rxs)
$2,068,000
Number of cans not in your landfill
1,488,960 (8272 x 30cans x 6 mo) 
Health Care Costs of Formula-feeding in the First Year of Life by Thomas M. Ball, MD, MPH and Anne L. Wright, PhD, published in Pediatrics Vol. 103 No. 4 April 1999, pp
births in area 8272 (Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Wells, Whitley Counties)

28. Baby friendly hospitals

29. IU Health Methodist/Indianapolis 2002
Community Hospital Anderson
IU Health Ball Memorial/Muncie
IU Health Goshen (#100)
IU Health Bloomington
Columbus Regional Medical Center
St Mary’s Hospital/Evansville
Memorial Hospital of South Bend
Deaconess Women’s Hospital/Evansville
Reid Hospital/Richmond
Henry County Hospital /New Castle
Elkhart General Hospital

38. For Babies that are born too sick, too small or too soon,
Providing safe mothers’ milk
for fragile infants
For Babies that are born too sick, too small or too soon,
human milk can literally help save their life.
In first food deserts,
too many babies die before their 1st birthday

45. “It is everyone’s role to make breastfeeding easier” Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding,2011