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This Friday, October 4, began the XVI edition of the National Congress of Breastfeeding instinctive and conscious, which this year is based at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center in Cartagena, where a total of 15 experts from all over the country will pass.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has attended the inauguration of these conferences together with the Councilor for Heritage and Recruitment, María Amoraga, which aims to address the benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and newborns , organized by the Federation of Pro-Breastfeeding Support Groups of Spain (FEDELMA).
Castejón has been accompanied at the opening ceremony by Eulalia Torras, president of FEDELMA, Laura Baraja, president of the organizing committee, and M. Carmen Carmen, medical director of the Cartagena Health Area.
During the two-day celebration, the congress will feature professionals such as Dr. Ricardo García de León, promoter of the so-called Skin-to-Skin Law passed unanimously in the Regional Assembly in November last year alongside distinguished midwives, pediatricians, health workers and anthropologists from Spain.
Following the objective of consolidating and strengthening health strategies to favor breastfeeding rates and thus prevent the health of mothers and babies, together with the advantages offered by this practice, the congress has been inaugurated with the Carlos Gómez conference on the ' Use and abuse of weight charts'.
Behind him, the first round table 'Breastfeeding delivery has an influence?'
directed by the Murcia Health Service under the Regional Nursing Coordinator, Aurora Tomás, and the interventions 'The force of life and the power of mothers' by Inma Marcos and 'Thus you are born, thus mamas' by Ascensión Gómez.
This day also had the support groups for breastfeeding and activism of Julia Cañero as the last activity in the morning, and will continue during the afternoon with the presentation 'Change the culture of breastfeeding: virtual networks' of Alba Padró, 'Maternity and politics, a vision of permits in Europe' by Patricia Merino, 'Risk of breastfeeding: legal rights of mothers and babies' by Anaís Ferrández and, finally,' Breastfeeding at school: normalize from the childhood 'of Julia Sánchez.
On Saturday, Silvia Ramírez will open the lecture series with 'Autism and breastfeeding: deconstructed motherhood', followed by the second round table also by the SMS, 'Our region, vision and horizon, friendly community of mothers and babies' moderated by by Beatriz Garnica Martinez, Regional Coordinator of Pediatrics and with the interventions' Our donor care center 'and' Neonatal units: accompanying the families' of Ana García and José Luis Leante of the Santa Lucía University General Hospital, together with 'Born in My mother's arms: the first right of the person 'by Ricardo García De León.
It will continue with 'First contact with the baby in Spanish hospitals' by Antonio Oliver Roig, 'Liters and liters of love' by Cristina Romero, and with the closing of Yolanda González with 'Breastfeeding: much more than feeding'.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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