Editor’s Note: Post has been updated with links and themes and to celebrate that National Breastfeeding Month (NBM) is here!! Follow the links to learn more about the many events! August was National Breastfeeding Month (NBM)! However, this year, we are delighted to report that NBM has grown from four weeks to six weeks, August […]
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Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) with activities at Kidzu’s Nest and Chapel Hill Farmers’ Market on Tuesday, August 2nd, from 3-5pm, and at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market on Saturday, August 6th, from 9-11am! Join us for fun activities and story-time, learn about local breastfeeding resources, and have a great shopping experience at the farmers’
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The U.S. Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) has announced the National Breastfeeding Month 2022 campaign and celebration! Each August, we celebrate National Breastfeeding Month. USBC invites us – member organizations, breastfeeding coalitions, partner organizations, communities, and individuals – “to participate in online action and conversation about the policy and practice changes needed to build a landscape of
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National Breastfeeding Month is a time of celebration, and we see so many powerful and beautiful images of nursing families and the communities that support them. In keeping with that celebration, Breastfeed Orange NC invites you to a FREE family photo shoot! The event is a collaboration of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities in Chatham, Durham
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It is Week 4 of National Breastfeeding Month 2020 in the US, a month-long breastfeeding awareness event. And the month culminates in Black Breastfeeding Week 2020. Revive. Restore. Reclaim! For eight years now, during the final seven days of National Breastfeeding Month, Black Breastfeeding Week has been celebrating Black breastfeeding families and bringing focused awareness
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National Breastfeeding Month 2020 continues with a focus this week on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCFE). Communities experience emergencies, both natural and man-made, that impact important services, e.g., reliable electrical service, safe and clean water, access to community services. Communities now also are faced with responding to emergencies in the context of
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National Breastfeeding Month 2020 continues in the US! This week, from Sunday, August 9, to Saturday, August 15, breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding is celebrated as part of Native Breastfeeding Week – #StrongResilientLatched. On the Native Breastfeeding Week Facebook page, we are reminded that this week addresses “the inequity and injustice of Indigenous parents
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This week, August 1-7, is World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). WBW has been celebrated the first week of August every year since 1992 to commemorate the 1990 Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding.1 Beyond celebrations, WBW is a week dedicated to increasing awareness about and advocacy for the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding. The
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