Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities

Networking Opportunity for Chatham/Orange County, NC
2020-08-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
We are excited to schedule this networking event for Breastfeeding Advocates who live and work in Chatham County and/or Orange County to expand on the work that the Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities team already started in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Join with Google Meet meet.google.com/nkk-tabw-axm
Join by phone (US) +1 352-509-5521 (PIN: [REDACTED])
Learn about the breastfeeding advocacy work that Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities is doing in our communities to improve breastfeeding EQUITY through collaboration with government, healthcare, community support providers, local businesses, nonprofits, local faith communities, childcare providers, and local schools.
If you cannot make it on August 17, but you are interested in networking with Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities, please email contact@BreastfeedingCommunities.org.

Live Love Latch! 2020 / World Breastfeeding Week! / National Breastfeeding Month!
2020-08-01 - 2020-08-31 | Live Love Latch 2020
Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) & National Breastfeeding Month in the US (August)!
This year, we are excited to share that La Leche League of Durham, Breastfeed Durham, and Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities are celebrating World Breastfeeding Week (For a Healthier Planet) and National Breastfeeding Month (Many Voices United) with a Live, Love, Latch!® 2020 virtual Show & Tell and prizes!
Anytime between now and the end of August, SHOW with a picture or video and TELL with a description something about your breastfeeding journey – maybe it’s a complicated or gymnastic breastfeeding pose; or a gentle breastfeeding pose; or a sweet way to ask to breastfeed; or one of the most inconvenient moments to be asked to breastfeed. It also might be how you are supporting a welcoming atmosphere for breastfeeding families in Durham.
Share Your Show & Tell here!
Everyone is welcome to participate!
Each week in August, submissions will be entered into a drawing for a prize.
Week 1: 30-minute Mind/Body Centering Yoga virtual session from These Wandering Roots
Week 2: $10 gas card*
Week 3: Virtual consultation ($45 value) on EC or potty training from Go Diaper Free
Week 4: Two personalized 30-minute Restorative Yoga Class (virtual, of course) from Start of Life
Additional Prizes: $10 gift card from The Regulator Bookshop*
Additional Prizes: “Boob hat” from These Wandering Roots*
Grand prize: Custom Portrait Valued at $195 from C. J. Howardart Every Day Paint*
*Mailed to a US address only.
Remember to Share Your Show & Tell here!
World Breastfeeding Week 2020, For a Healthier Planet, highlights the links between breastfeeding and planetary health.
The 2020 National Breastfeeding Month theme, Many Voices United, reminds us that now, more than ever, we must come together to identify and implement the policy and systems changes that are needed to ensure that every family that chooses to breastfeed has the support and resources they need to succeed.

Black Breastfeeding Week 2019
2019-08-25 - 2019-08-31
The World is Yours: Imagine. Innovate. Liberate
#BlackBreastfeedingWeek #BFinnovation #breastfeeding

LLL Live Love Latch!
2019-08-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Forest Hills Park, 1639 University Drive, Durham, NC, 27707, United States
Celebrate your family’s journey through breastfeeding and parenting. Bring everyone who Lives with you, Loves with you, or Latches on with you to this year’s La Leche League Live Love Latch! event. Get together with old friends and new friends. We will meet at the covered gazebo with a picnic table. Remember to dress your little one for some water fun running through the fountains! Older children will enjoy the “sprayground”, too.
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities will have an exhibit table at this event. Hope to see you there!

BFFC of Durham Planning Meeting
2019-08-14 18:45 - 20:30 | Levin Jewish Community Center, 1937 W Cornwallis Rd, Durham, North Carolina, 27705
Email durham@breastfeedingcommunities.org with agenda items.

National Breastfeeding Month 2019
2019-08-01 - 2019-08-31
There are four sub-themes focusing on the following:

Week 1: Empowered Parents & Partners

August 1-7 is also World Breastfeeding Week

Week 2: Investing in our Future
Week 3: Workplace & Work life (or school life)
Week 4: Black Breastfeeding Week. The theme of Black Breastfeeding Week is “The World is Yours: Imagine. Innovate. Liberate”

World Breastfeeding Week
2019-08-01 - 2019-08-07
Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2019 – “a global campaign coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) that aims to inform, anchor, engage and galvanise action on breastfeeding and related issues. The #WBW2019 theme is ‘Empower parents, enable breastfeeding.’ #WBW2019 advocates for (a) parental social protection policies and legislation, (b) parent-friendly workplaces in both formal and informal sectors, and (c) parent-friendly values and gender-equitable social norms.”
#WBW2019 #EmpowerParentsEnableBreastfeeding #worldbreastfeedingweek2019 #breastfeeding

BFFC of Durham Planning Meeting
2019-07-19 10:00 - 11:30
Please email durham@breastfeedingcommunities with agenda items.

NCLCA Annual Breastfeeding Summit
2019-06-21 08:30 - 16:30 | Coastline Conference & Event Center, 501 Nutt St, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
Registration is now open for the North Carolina Lactation Consultant Association (NCLCA) 2019 Summit “Compassion and Clinical Skills: Improving the Breastfeeding Experience for All Families.”
The mission of this annual summit is to support all types of Lactation Professionals (IBCLCs and others) and Breastfeeding Advocates to become a more cohesive and inclusive community. It serves to connect people to collaborate, share skills and ideas, and mentor one another across specialties and sectors.
Click on conference title above to be redirected to the registration site and to view the full agenda.

Earth Day Festival
2019-04-28 11:00 - 16:00 | Durham Central Park, 501 Foster Street, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Enjoy a day filled with an eclectic mix of music, food, hands-on environmental education activities and much more! And then come Rock and Rest with the Durham Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities Team!
