For our readers, National Breastfeeding Month lasts all year. Every day is National Breastfeeding Month when this is your work. August is when the rest of the country joins us. It is a transformative month for this organization. We come out of every August with new framing and new ideas that carry us […]
Workplace Lactation Week is sponsored by Healthy Horizons. They publish substantial free resources for employers building lactation support, which is usually the hardest part of this work to move in a community. Go look at what they have. Celebrate it locally. Use the week to move one employer where you are.
Semana de la Lactancia Latina is organized by the Union de Lideres de Lactancia Latino. They plan the week, they build the resources, and they publish a week of things to do. Their work supporting Spanish-speaking families is far better than anything the rest of us could assemble on our own. Go to their page […]
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Breastfeeding Week is organized by the DC Breastfeeding Coalition. Universal access is not an add-on to this work. A family who cannot get information in the language they actually use is a family we have not served, and this week names that plainly. Follow their page and use what they […]
