Happy World Breastfeeding Week to all!

Thought I'd share an item I came across in our evening paper:

JERUSALEM--For Sonia Sawafta, Israel's closure of the West Bank meant a
cutoff from her newborn baby girl, who was undergoing throat surgery
alone in a Jerusalem hospital.
After a week of being turned away at Israeli army roadblocks, the
20-year-old Palestinian woman finally sneaked into Israel on Wednesday,
trekking 35 miles on dirt paths and back roads from her northern West
Bank village of Tubas.
"Nobody in the world can accept keeping a mother from her baby," she
said, her eyes glistening with tears of joy after she breastfed
16-day-old Manal for the first time at Maqassed Hospital in east
Jerusalem.

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the ILCA Conference.

Kendall Cox
LLLL, WIC BFing Coordinator
Mississippi Delta