Support Infants and Young Children in Australian Emergencies
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Jessica Edquist
5 years ago
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Signing because I know someone who was stuck on the NSW South coast for five days last summer with a formula fed baby, no power, no news, no idea if the water supply had been contaminated, super stressed about how to keep her child safe. So traumatic. We have to do better.
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Kim Campbell
5 years ago
Children are our future
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Vicki Evans
5 years ago
We do have emergencies in Australia. We need a plan to look after our infants and children that is up to date based on research and distributed to everyone so people are ready
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Su See Lim
5 years ago
Breast is best absolutely! Let's keep our young ones safe and healthy in all circumstances!
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Marian Wicks
5 years ago
Vitally important!
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Sarah Brooks
5 years ago
Very much needed. There is currently more information provided about what you need for pets than there is for young children.
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Sue Sheppard
5 years ago
Breast is best!
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Sally Eldridge
5 years ago
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Extraordinary that we have got to 2020 and never had any guidelines in Australia to protect infant and young child feeding in emergencies. Having been highlighted as such a glaring gap in emergency planning by the Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy in 2019, it would be appalling to head into another bushfire season without Government having taken steps to get plans in place.
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Iona Macnab
5 years ago
This preparation is critically important for the health and safety of Australian infants when emergencies occur. It is very significant that so many organisations have signed this Call to Action. It's a gaping hole in our emergency planning.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Extremely important, please consider.
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Dale Nigro
5 years ago
Come on Australia, step up and get this happening!
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Anonymous
5 years ago
NSW
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Natalie Willmot
5 years ago
Infants deserve support as do mothers who breastfeed especially during emergencies
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Angela Szymanski
5 years ago
Australia citizen and RN, IBCLC.
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Karis Dalton
5 years ago
Infants and mothers are overlooked in emergencies and it is time to recognise them and plan accordingly.
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Edwina Mead
5 years ago
NSW
There are so many women who are not adequately supported to breastfeed, and are therefore unable to, putting them at risk of mental health problems and their children at higher risk for illnesses and during disasters. The number of women who truly cannot breastfeed and the number of women who want to breastfeed, but are made to believe that they cannot, are vastly different numbers, which is a national disgrace. We need to be supporting mothers to feed their babies in the best way possible, which requires the provision of real support, measurement of key indicators, and inclusion of infant feeding in disaster management plans.
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Carly Grubb
5 years ago
This shouldn’t even need petitioning! It should be a given. Get on with it government. This is too important to be delayed any longer!
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Chantal Straw
5 years ago
Western Australia
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Natalie Gray
5 years ago
Child Health Nurse and IBCLC
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Helen Gray
5 years ago
Every country should be doing this! All infants and young children should be protected in emergencies!
Thank you WBTi Australia for your leadership
Signing because I know someone who was stuck on the NSW South coast for five days last summer with a formula fed baby, no power, no news, no idea if the water supply had been contaminated, super stressed about how to keep her child safe. So traumatic. We have to do better.
Children are our future
We do have emergencies in Australia. We need a plan to look after our infants and children that is up to date based on research and distributed to everyone so people are ready
Breast is best absolutely! Let's keep our young ones safe and healthy in all circumstances!
Vitally important!
Very much needed. There is currently more information provided about what you need for pets than there is for young children.
Breast is best!
Extraordinary that we have got to 2020 and never had any guidelines in Australia to protect infant and young child feeding in emergencies. Having been highlighted as such a glaring gap in emergency planning by the Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy in 2019, it would be appalling to head into another bushfire season without Government having taken steps to get plans in place.
This preparation is critically important for the health and safety of Australian infants when emergencies occur. It is very significant that so many organisations have signed this Call to Action. It's a gaping hole in our emergency planning.
Extremely important, please consider.
Come on Australia, step up and get this happening!
NSW
Infants deserve support as do mothers who breastfeed especially during emergencies
Australia citizen and RN, IBCLC.
Infants and mothers are overlooked in emergencies and it is time to recognise them and plan accordingly.
NSW There are so many women who are not adequately supported to breastfeed, and are therefore unable to, putting them at risk of mental health problems and their children at higher risk for illnesses and during disasters. The number of women who truly cannot breastfeed and the number of women who want to breastfeed, but are made to believe that they cannot, are vastly different numbers, which is a national disgrace. We need to be supporting mothers to feed their babies in the best way possible, which requires the provision of real support, measurement of key indicators, and inclusion of infant feeding in disaster management plans.
This shouldn’t even need petitioning! It should be a given. Get on with it government. This is too important to be delayed any longer!
Western Australia
Child Health Nurse and IBCLC
Every country should be doing this! All infants and young children should be protected in emergencies! Thank you WBTi Australia for your leadership