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"
Email durham@breastfeedingcommunities.org with agenda items.
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 […]
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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 […]
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: 224230185) Learn about […]
Our board meets on the fourth Monday, and we open every meeting the same way: with a partner community telling us what they are working on. That is the part we protect. The board has business to do, but the reason this organization exists is the communities doing the Ten Steps where they live. Five […]
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities provides technical assistance to the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition as we pilot the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community. Working in local municipalities taught us something important. There are things a local community simply cannot do on its own. Some change has to happen at the state level. […]
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 […]
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 […]
