This week the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee fully released its national plan, Nourishing, Thriving Communities: A National Plan for First Foods, Breastfeeding, and Lactation Support through Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change. […]
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Some months you feel the whole ecosystem at once. June was one of them — and it started on Capitol Hill. On June 3, I spent the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee’s
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June was a whirlwind. In the span of a few weeks I went from Capitol Hill for the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee’s Day of Advocacy, to presenting at the National Breastfeeding
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Step 4 of the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community is deceptively simple: during pregnancy, all families in the community are informed about the benefits of chest/breastfeeding, the
If you have North Carolina Medicaid, your health plan is supposed to offer more than the basics. Those “extras” are called value-added benefits — things like breast pumps, baby-related supplies,
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When a hurricane, flood, or long power outage hits, the youngest members of a community are often the most vulnerable — and the easiest to overlook. Feeding a baby safely
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Opportunities to Transform Public Health At Breastfeeding Communities, we believe in the power of collaboration and innovation to create healthier, more equitable communities. As part of our mission to advance maternal
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One of our SAFE Infant Feeding Team research partners has a new paper out, and it puts careful evidence behind something we say all the time: when we talk about
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What happens when you implement all Ten Steps and center equity? Lives are saved. Durham County, North Carolina—the first county to implement the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly
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Addresses Critical Gaps in Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies, hosted by North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition Raleigh, NC — The North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition, in collaboration with the SAFE
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