LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Marijuana sold in Michigan shops will have to have labels warning pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers about the health risks for their fetuses and infants under newly...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Marijuana sold in shops would have to have labels warning pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers about the health risks for their fetuses and infants under legislation sent...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Advocates for breastfeeding say Alabama employers should do a better job of allowing the practice at work.

At least 29 states have laws that protect breastfeeding and...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Nestle and other multinational companies pushed expensive baby formula to a low-income community near Peru's capital despite the country's ban against aggressive marketing of...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Lawmakers in New York have voted to exempt nursing mothers from jury duty.

The Senate and Assembly this week both passed legislation which would permit women to delay...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A former Falmouth elementary school teacher contends the school district declined to renew her contract because she took three breaks a day to pump breast milk for her...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Women needing to breastfeed their babies at the Kansas Capitol now have a room set aside just for them.

The private lactation room on the first floor of the Statehouse was unveiled on Friday.

Gov.-elect Laura Kelly said Friday she thought it was about time the State Capitol joined more than 300 work sites across the state that provided accommodations for breastfeeding employees. She says the room makes the Statehouse "a 21st century employer."

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mallory Bonie is not new to motherhood. Her eldest daughter is now 7 years old.

But when she gave birth to her second daughter Ahdelina, three months ago, she felt like she was relearning everything about caring for an infant.

Bonie has breastfed both of her children, but had trouble initially feeding Adhelina. Making an appointment to speak with a lactation consultant at a hospital was challenging while trying to manage a new baby and young child.

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith started using a handy tool in early August to help mothers feed their newborn babies.

BRIGHTON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan pastor apologized to a woman who said she was shamed for breastfeeding inside a church in a Detroit suburb.

Amy Marchant, 29, said a church leader privately messaged her on Facebook after she nursed her child at The Naz Church in Brighton two months ago. Marchant was accused of immodesty and inspiring "lustfulness," she said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. opposed a World Health Assembly resolution to encourage breastfeeding because it called for limits on the promotion of infant formula, not because of objections to breastfeeding, President Donald Trump tweeted Monday.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Babies born too early have a greater chance of death before they reach their first birthday.

BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) — If not for the breast milk pump Akimi Nelken received when her daughter, Margaret, was born last July, Nelken might have had to give up on breastfeeding.

"We had a lot of issues at the beginning with breastfeeding," Nelken said. "She had trouble latching on at the beginning."

The pain caused by Margaret's latch, which was too shallow, brought on post-partum depression and lack of sleep for her mother. Nelken used her pump to keep Margaret fed and to keep up her milk supply.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Janel Moore has had her heart broken more than once when mothers leaving the maternity unit at Sentara Norfolk General asked:

"Do you have any extra formula or a breast pump?"

The question would transport Moore, a nurse and clinical manager on the unit, back to when she was a 17-year-old single mom overwhelmed with tasks of caring for a baby on her own, and embarrassed about signing up for a federal program that would provide food for her and her baby.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Suites for nursing and breastfeeding mothers are being installed in North Dakota airports other facilities through a state Health Department grant to the North Dakota Breastfeeding Coalition.

The first suite was installed last month in Minot, he Minot Daily News reported. They cost $16,000 to construct.

CHICAGO (AP) — As the school year begins, districts across Illinois will face a new requirement to aid breast-feeding students.

The law signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner last month takes effect Jan. 1, the Chicago Tribune reported . It requires public schools to provide a room, other than a bathroom, with an electrical outlet for nursing mothers.

CHICAGO (AP) — A widely shared story that U.S. health officials are recommending a delay in breast-feeding to improve vaccine effectiveness is false.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency named in the false reports, encourages breast-feeding . The CDC says breast milk is best for all infants except in rare cases such as when a mother has active, untreated tuberculosis.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A proposal to encourage incarcerated mothers to provide breast milk to their infant children won the endorsement Monday of a panel of lawmakers.

The bill sponsored by Rep. Sarah Maestas Barnes, R-Albuquerque, and Sen. Michael Padilla, D-Albuquerque, would require a new breastfeeding policy for all correctional facilities in the state, with provisions for women to pump and store breast milk for same-day delivery to infants or toddlers on the outside.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Elena Petzold has worn many hats over the years. She's worked in legal administration and event and facility management. There even was a stint as a clown.

"I've always had a passion about things related to families," she says.

These days, Petzold, a mother of two who resides in Upper St. Clair, says her 5-year-old son best sums up her latest job: "My mom helps other moms breastfeed their babies."

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state Health Department is awarding more than $7 million to six organizations to establish breastfeeding community support networks across New York.

At the same time, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker is urging all health care providers in the state to take steps to promote and support exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Dozens of Romanian mothers have gathered at a museum in Bucharest to breastfeed their babies to promote the freedom of mothers to breastfeed in public.

Mothers dressed in embroidered traditional peasantaa blouses sat, chatted and fed their children Saturday at the event at the picturesque Village Museum.

Alexandra Hulea, a 31-year-old marketing specialist, still feeds her 13-month-old twins Eva and Dominic. She says "people look strangely...