Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland launches breastfeeding educational CD for schools

The Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland (HPA) has announced that it has launched a breastfeeding educational CD resource for schools, to assist teachers in their approach to the sensitive topic of breastfeeding in a way that is both interesting and thought provoking. It said that breastfeeding had been recognised as a major public health issue and that it was vitally important that education about breastfeeding should start in childhood, particularly in Northern Ireland, where it said there was a strong bottle-feeding culture.

The resource aims to provide significant support to those involved in educating school children about the importance of breastfeeding to the health of mum and baby.  It also sensitively tackles the need to change attitudes towards breastfeeding.