{"id":3517,"date":"2013-01-06T18:12:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T10:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2013-01-16T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T10:13:07","slug":"motherhood-celebrated-awareness-campaign-for-breastfeeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/motherhood-celebrated-awareness-campaign-for-breastfeeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Motherhood celebrated: awareness campaign for breastfeeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Breastfeeding-awareness-campaign-by-YB-Lau-Weng-San\u2019s-service-centre-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3518\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Breastfeeding-awareness-campaign-by-YB-Lau-Weng-San\u2019s-service-centre-16-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Breastfeeding-awareness-campaign-by-YB-Lau-Weng-San\u2019s-service-centre-16-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Breastfeeding-awareness-campaign-by-YB-Lau-Weng-San\u2019s-service-centre-16-116x175.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Breastfeeding-awareness-campaign-by-YB-Lau-Weng-San\u2019s-service-centre-16.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>PETALING JAYA \u2013 True to the DAP and Pakatan Rakyat\u2019s continuous efforts in empowering Malaysian women and mothers, The State Assemblyman for Kampung Tunku, Lau Weng San, organised a breastfeeding awareness campaign to keep the society alert about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The event, happening on 22 December, was held with an active collaboration with Malaysia Natural Breastfeeding and Natural Parenting Association (MBNPA) here, at SS2 Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors from all over the Klang Valley participated in the 6-hour event, which highlighted the visitors on the aspects, roles and importance of breastfeeding in parenting. The campaign also solidified support for the practice of breastfeeding, alongside educating the crowd on children and family-related issues. The breastfeeding culture has been detected as increasingly \u201clow\u201d in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While females are making up half of the country\u2019s population, working mothers in Malaysia are dealing with an unimpressive lack of nursing and breastfeeding facilities in their workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them are lead to quit their jobs to tend to their families, something that has raised the cries demanding better prospects for women in the nation\u2019s workforce. \u2013 The Rocket<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA \u2013 True to the DAP and Pakatan Rakyat\u2019s continuous efforts in empowering Malaysian women and mothers, The State Assemblyman for Kampung Tunku, Lau Weng San, organised a breastfeeding awareness campaign to keep the society alert about the matter. The event, happening on 22 December, was held with an active collaboration with Malaysia Natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}