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Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing
politicsdaily.com ^ | Feb. 14, 2011 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 02/14/2011 6:55:34 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

First lady Michelle Obama will be speaking out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, Politics Daily has learned, throwing the spotlight on nursing as a way to reduce childhood obesity.

This comes as the Obama administration in the past year has made several moves to encourage breastfeeding -- including a push for more flexible workplace rules and an Internal Revenue Service ruling on Thursday that breast pumps and other nursing supplies qualify for tax breaks.

Mrs. Obama -- who has spoken in public about nursing her youngest daughter, Sasha -- is going to tread carefully in what might be a sensitive area for some women -- and not use her bully pulpit to directly ask more women to breast feed.

"Breastfeeding is a very personal choice for every woman," Kristina Schake, Mrs. Obama's communications chief, told Politics Daily. "We are trying to make it easier for those who choose to do it."

Last week, Mrs. Obama touched on breastfeeding strategy at a lunch with 10 print reporters who cover her to mark the first anniversary of her "Let's Move" anti-childhood obesity campaign.

Looking ahead to what she will do in the second year of "Let's Move," Mrs. Obama said: "We also want to focus on the important touch points in a child's life. And what we're learning now is that early intervention is key. Breastfeeding. Kids who are breastfed longer have a lower tendency to be obese.

"We want to get into child-care centers, day-care centers, and start talking about how -- what kind of snacks they're getting there. We want to have those conversations at an earlier level. But those are just some of the things that you'll see."

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To: Free ThinkerNY
"We also want to focus on the important touch points in a child's life...

The federal government has no &^%%$)@ role is raising children!

21 posted on 02/14/2011 7:14:21 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"We want to get into child-care centers, day-care centers, and start talking about how...

The universal Obama family line..."We want to get into [____], [_____], and start talking about how [____]..."

How about you MYODB??

22 posted on 02/14/2011 7:15:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GeronL

“Dairy products”?? Isn’t that related to cows? Oh, Michelle... Never mind


23 posted on 02/14/2011 7:17:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Mrs. Obama -- who has spoken in public about nursing her youngest daughter, Sasha I thought the kids where off limits.. Oh yeah Meeshell is a socialist. She knows what is best "for the children"
24 posted on 02/14/2011 7:17:39 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hey Michelle, big momma government does not know best for us! Leave us alone! {Diety}! What’s next, going to tell me how to trim my toenails?


25 posted on 02/14/2011 7:18:26 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Bronzy
...the Welfare moms will not be able to work ‘cause the babes will need breast milk every two hours.

Crack milk will be a change for the baby from Seagram's Ginger Ale in the nursing bottle.

26 posted on 02/14/2011 7:18:42 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Government does nothing as economically as the private sector. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: indylindy

Wonder what ever happened to the fruit and veggies from their garden?


27 posted on 02/14/2011 7:18:52 PM PST by AGreatPer (Voting for the crazy conservative gave us Ronald Reagan....Ann Coulter)
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To: Bender2; cleveland gop

She sucks


28 posted on 02/14/2011 7:19:08 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("[T]here is nothing so aggravating [in life] as being condescended to by an idiot" ~ Ann Coulter)
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To: Joe 6-pack
"Just AGREE with her fer God's sake..if Wookie wants to say she's an authority on these matters, just pretend she is...otherwise she's gonna make my life HELL...

"

29 posted on 02/14/2011 7:21:38 PM PST by bitt ( ..Congress - either investigate Obama ...or yourselves, for complicity)
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To: republicangel

Lactation nazis. They are obsessed.


30 posted on 02/14/2011 7:22:05 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The sooner michelle can marshal her boobs,
the sooner she can line up her suckers.


31 posted on 02/14/2011 7:23:15 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She is not the first lady...she is the FIRST BUSYBODY!!! She is not an expert in any of this stuff...Laura Bush had credibility as an experienced Librarian encouraging children to read, but The First BusyBody has no training in nutrition, dietetics, or early childhood health...as a non-expert unelected citizen, who is she to be foisting her opinion on us thru any legislation or IRS ruling?!?!?!

As an aside, Not to pick on her children, but to point out in her own parenting and parental food choices, her children are not that thin and neither is she.


32 posted on 02/14/2011 7:29:10 PM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: republicangel

“I’m so tired of these jerks making my daughter feel like a bad mother..”

I’ve been there. For several different reasons (including being on medication), I couldn’t breast feed and the nursing staff at the hospital were HORRIBLE! Breast feeding is being pushed by the medical society and our culture as always being the best choice. It isn’t in all cases. For one thing, if you bottle feed, the formula has everything that the baby needs. You need to eat something like 2,500 calories a day. Very few women have that type of appetite after birth. Plus, I liked the fact that my husband and I were both able to feed the baby (especially when I was recovering from birth). However, I have known some women who breast fed but returned to work after four weeks for 10-12 hour days (leaving their infant in the hands of a paid nanny). They were the same women who said they were the best Moms in the world because of this one action. Tell your daughter that being a good Mom isn’t about one specific event like breast feeding. It is doing all the other good Mom stuff.


33 posted on 02/14/2011 7:32:30 PM PST by momtothree
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To: DemforBush

Yep...along with EIC.


34 posted on 02/14/2011 7:33:02 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (Man the pitchforks and torches.......let the revolution begin)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

LOL...that is sooooooo bad.


35 posted on 02/14/2011 7:33:44 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (Man the pitchforks and torches.......let the revolution begin)
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To: AGreatPer
"Wonder what ever happened to the fruit and veggies from their garden?"

Stuffed and mounted?


36 posted on 02/14/2011 7:34:38 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Think she is promoting this international organization:

http://www.llli.org/


37 posted on 02/14/2011 7:35:09 PM PST by Bronzy (We Remembered In November.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Jez now nursing mothers can get a tax credit for their bras, nursing types.. but what the heck..clinton took a tax break for his underwear he gave to good will...


38 posted on 02/14/2011 7:37:42 PM PST by JoanneSD
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If she’s contributing those kids will be on short rations.


39 posted on 02/14/2011 7:38:56 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: Venturer

“She is trying so hard to be relevant.,”

Well it isn’t working!


40 posted on 02/14/2011 7:41:06 PM PST by kcvl
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