Feeding
Awareness

AUGUST is BREASTFEEDING AWARENESS MONTH.

We're celebrating the beauty and diversity of all the ways we're...

FEEDING OUR BABIES.

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pumping, combination feeding, and chestfeeding.

We support breastfeeding and

we acknowledge and support your choice of Best Milk for you and your baby.

Every August we celebrate

Breastfeeding Awareness Month

National Breastfeeding Month This is Our Why
World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7 ENABLING BREASTFEEDING: Making a difference for working parents
Indigenous Milk Medicine Week August 8-14 From the Stars to a Sustainable Future
Asian & Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week August 15-21 Telling Our Own Stories. Elevating Our Voices.
Black Breastfeeding Week August 25-31 We Outside!: Celebrating Connection & Our Communities
Latina/x Breastfeeding Week September 5-11 Lactancia Latina - Nos unimos para celebrar y generar conciencia sobre las barreras de nuestras comunidades.

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FREE RESOURCES.

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The National Perinatal Association honors and supports the work of advocates who are serving their communities in ways that are innovative, informed, and culturally-specific.

We invite you to learn more about these initiatives.

WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK.

August 1-7

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World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a global network of individuals and organisations dedicated to the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding worldwide.

Annually, WABA coordinates and organises the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) between Aug 1-7.

Since 2016, we have aligned our WBW campaign to United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

We call this WBW-SDGs Campaign.

#WBF023 #WABA #SDGs #worldbreastfeedingweek2023 #buildingbackbetter #EmpoweringParentsCampaign #EnablingBreastfeeding #WarmChain #MakingaDifference

VISIT the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action website

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WBW

No matter how you do it ...

nursing
pumping
hand expressing
breastfeeding
chestfeeding
body feeding
on your own
with support
with the help of a donor
for one day
or one year
or maybe longer

... and especially when you make the choice that is best for you and your baby.
We recognize and honor everyone who does their best to give our babies what they need.

Because what babies need are people who love them, care about them, and nurture them.

INDIGENOUS MILK MEDICINE WEEK.

August 8-14

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From the Stars to a Sustainable Future

Indigenous Milk Medicine Week is to highlight the

Native Breastfeeding experience in all forms

through the visibility of personal testimonies,

partner experiences, research, articles, barriers,

and/or success.

Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective sponsors the

annual Indigenous Milk Medicine Week.

The annual week begins on the 2nd Sunday in August

during National Breastfeeding/Lactation Month.

#IndigenousMilkMedicine #IndigyMilkHeals #NourishingOurFutures #StrongResilientLatched #Rematriation

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IMMW

ASIAN + PACIFIC ISLANDER BREASTFEEDING WEEK.

August 15-21

Telling Our Own Stories. Elevating Our Voices.

Our Mission: To decrease inequities and normalize breast/chestfeeding in Los Angeles County’s Asian and Pacific Islander communities by improving breast/chestfeeding education and support practices.

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#AANHPIBreastfeedingWeek

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APIBW

BBW

BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK.

August 25-31

BBW 2023: We Outside!
Celebrating Connection & Our Communities

Black Breastfeeding Week was created because for over 40 years there has been a gaping racial disparity in breastfeeding rates. The most recent CDC data show that 75% of white women have ever breastfed versus 58.9% of black women.

The fact that racial disparity in initiation and even bigger one for duration has lingered for so long is reason enough to take 7 days to focus on the issue, but here are a few more.