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 […]
The SAFE Team convenes S3C quarterly for the people doing infant and young child feeding in emergencies work on the ground: the ones writing the plans, sitting on preparedness committees, and answering the phone when the water goes out. SAFE is the national IYCF-E implementation of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities. If BFFC is the […]
Friends of the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition gather during National Breastfeeding Month. Most of this work happens on a screen. A Zoom square, a shared document, an email thread that never quite ends. This is the part where you find out who the other people actually are. The relationships that carry a coalition […]
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 […]
Love Anderson, co-founder of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities, joins Baby Cafe USA for their August Cafe Chat. Baby Cafes do something most systems cannot. They put skilled lactation support in a room where families already are, free and drop-in, with no appointment and no referral. The people who run them see what breaks first, […]
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.
Five years ago NACCHO published the Continuity of Care in Breastfeeding Support Blueprint. More than 45 counties and communities have since put it to work. Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities presents alongside NACCHO, the Black Mothers' Breastfeeding Association in Michigan, and the Augusta University Research Institute in Georgia. Three very different places, applying the same […]
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 […]
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 […]
Love Anderson, co-founder of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities, presents for the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership and the West Virginia Breastfeeding Institute. Breastfeeding is one of the most powerful and cost-effective child survival interventions we have. It is also one of the easiest for a community to leave entirely to individual mothers, as though it […]
