Observances

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 […]

World Breastfeeding Week is hosted by WABA, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action.   It was a call to action from WABA that started the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community. Our whole framework began as an answer to this week.   It is easy to let a week like this pass, to […]

Indigenous Milk Medicine Week is led by the Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective.   The Collective plans the week, chooses the theme, and puts together a full slate of sessions and materials. Go to them. They are doing this work and they are the ones to learn it from.   Observe the week, and bring what […]

AANHPI Breastfeeding Week is led by the Asian Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Task Force.   The Task Force plans the week, sets the theme, and publishes the full slate of sessions and materials. Their page is where the week actually lives.   Celebrate it with them, and carry what you learn into your own work.

Black Breastfeeding Week closes out National Breastfeeding Month every year, August 25 through 31.   The organizers plan the week, set the theme, and publish the events and resources that go with it. Go to them. That is where the week lives and they are the ones who built it.   Celebrate it locally. These […]

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.