When BFFC began working on the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community in Chatham County, we found a mix of rural landscapes and growing towns like Pittsboro, each […]
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During disasters like Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina, lactation support providers sometimes turn their offices into disaster relief areas. When that happens, it is essential to align with food
August 22, 2026 August is officially Arkansas Breastfeeding Month after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a proclamation recognizing the importance of breastfeeding for Arkansas families. The proclamation was developed in
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a new policy statement outlining how pediatricians and health care systems can confront implicit bias, interpersonal microaggressions, and structural racism to advance lactation equity. The first strategy it names is partnership with community health workers. That is the premise the entire Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities framework rests on. Community health workers and health educators are the center of this model, not an add on to it, and a core aim of the framework is training clinicians to think the way community health workers think. To see that named in national pediatric policy is significant for every coalition doing this work. Read the full policy statement.
When budgets tighten, lactation support is treated as a nice-to-have. It is one of the few line items that pays the payer back. Two papers make that case, and one
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L. M. Dinour and K. M. Camacho, “Breastfeeding Education in Kindergarten Through 12th Grade: A Content Analysis of United States Health Curriculum Standards,” Journal of School Health 96, no. 7
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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. I’ve had
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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 Day
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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
