Fertile Ground Movement, LLC

As I assisted women for many years to become pregnant and cared for infants with infant massage, this reminds me how far we have come, yet with our current administration, infant care is being set back generations.

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All of the ridiculous formula misinformation coming out of the MAHA movement and this administration is directly tied to blaming mothers for personal failure while distracting from the structural barriers they refuse to fix. Also, we didn’t even talk about how this was at an airport to enhance travel accommodations. We have decades of data showing enormous socioeconomic disparities in breastfeeding rates. The biggest barriers are structural, and include limited or no paid family leave; inflexible, low-wage jobs; inadequate workplace pumping accommodations; inconsistent or nonexistent lactation support; limited access to high-quality prenatal and postpartum care; and racial and income-based inequities in hospital practices and community resources. These are the factors that determine who is actually able to breastfeed and for how long. A breastfeeding/pumping pod in an airport, while nice, does not address any of this. It is, however, a perfect snapshot of how MAHA and this administration approach everything. They prioritize individual, boutique solutions that mainly benefit higher-income families, while ignoring the structural conditions that shape health for everyone else. *Breastfeeding rate data from the CDC and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)

And they expand the “wellness grift.”

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❌ Ensuring all Americans have access to fresh healthy food and medical care ✅ Making them wear devices that track their lives ❌Gold standard science ✅Gold standard grifting #MAHA

In my mother’s early career, she was a public health nurse.

This is Project 2025 destroying decades of public health gains for Americans. The rich want to destroy the poor, the weak, the aged, and the fighters who are not sheep.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLQeH8HvBLT/?igsh=bTF1bGt3bXhsMWtq

You are not your own public health administration, and you shouldn’t have to be. We make personal choices within systems. And public health is about the systems and conditions that shape those choices long before we make them.

I knew this, did you??? First step to being able to make the world we want is to know the truth of how things are now so we can choose “better.”

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Juneteenth seems like a good day to respond to this. Racism is a root cause of poor health. Not just historically. Right now. And there is an immense amount of evidence if you’re not choosing to ignore it.