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It will take place on October 4 and 5 at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center |
On October 4 and 5, the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center in Cartagena will host the 16th National Congress of Breastfeeding instinctive and conscious.
It is organized by FEDALMA, the Federation of Pro-Breastfeeding Support Groups in Spain.
This event will have 15 experts from all over the country, who will talk about the benefits of this practice with babies, both for newborns and for mothers.
The event has the collaboration of the Department of Equality of the City of Cartagena.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, presented this congress on Wednesday, September 4, together with the president of the Mother-to-Mother breastfeeding association of Cartagena, María Rendo, and Dr. Ricardo García de León, one of the speakers at this congress and promoter of the so-called Skin to Skin Law, unanimously approved in the Regional Assembly in November last year.
One of the objectives proposed by the organizers of this event is to consolidate and strengthen health strategies to promote breastfeeding rates to prevent the health of mothers and babies.
In addition, the advantages offered by this practice will be transmitted.
The first mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, thanked FEDALMA for choosing the port city as the venue for this National Congress on instinctive and conscious Breastfeeding.
She has been “very excited†for the event.
In addition, he said that breastfeeding reduces obesity in children and protects them against infections or allergies.
"I am sure that there will be, in Cartagena and in the Region of Murcia, a before and after with this congress," says Castejón.
The president of the association of breastfeeding Mother to Mother of Cartagena and representative of the organizer of the event FEDALMA, María Rendo, has been very satisfied with the support received from the Department of Equality of the City of Cartagena.
Likewise, Rendo says that behind this event there are 2 years of work and that finally an appointment is brought to Cartagena that they had long wanted to celebrate in the port city.
Previously, this national congress of instinctive and conscious breastfeeding has been held in cities such as Valencia, Ciudad Real or Pamplona, ​​among others.
María Rendo says that midwives, pediatricians, health workers and distinguished anthropologists will come from Spain.
One of the speakers who will attend the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center in Cartagena in October will be Dr. Ricardo García de León, who has dedicated several decades of his life to breastfeeding and caring for babies.
His paper 'Born in the arms of my mother as the first human right' aims, according to the doctor, "put a human face to those rights that were approved unanimously in the Regional Assembly in November."
García de León says that "the baby, like any mammal, is not prepared to live alone."
He has claimed that newborns have two fundamental rights: not to be separated from their mother and information about the birth.
In addition, the doctor says that the Region of Murcia is at the forefront in Spain in breastfeeding and that it is also a benchmark internationally.
The registration period for the XVI National Congress of instinctive and conscious Breastfeeding ends on September 29 and can be done on this link.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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