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Hello everybody! I'm am SO excited to share this with all of you. A
magazine I subscribe to, "Mothering", created an initiative to develop a
Universal Breastfeeding Symbol and asked readers to help. It's been done,
and the above link will show you that new symbol. The following article is
from Mothering's web site explaining the symbol and it's uses. I think this
is so great!
Michelle J
The purpose of an international symbol for breastfeeding is to increase
public awareness of breastfeeding, to provide an alternative to the use of a
baby bottle image to designate baby friendly areas in public, and to mark
breastfeeding friendly facilities.
Of course, breastfeeding does not require a special place and is
appropriate—as the Canadian government's slogan says—"anytime, anywhere."
The purpose of the symbol is not to segregate breastfeeding, but to help
integrate it into society by better accommodating it in public.
For example, sometimes there are no chairs in public, sometimes nowhere to
change the baby, or for the mother separated from her baby, nowhere to plug
in an electric breast pump. Mothers welcome quiet, private places in public
where they can collect themselves and their children. The symbol could
designate these kinds of places.
In addition, businesses could use this symbol to designate a lactation room,
required now by law in California. Restaurants could use the image to let
moms know, "Breastfeeding welcome here." We've already heard from a new
airport and a university interested in using the symbol. When you see this
new symbol in use, please let us know, and if possible, send us a photo.
The winning image was designed by Matt Daigle of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Matt is a stay-at-home dad, freelance graphic designer, and cartoonist. Matt
and his wife Kay are the parents of one-year-old son Hayden.
The breastfeeding symbol is available copyright free. Matt has signed it
over to the Public Domain.
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