Breastfeed Durham

09/01/2026

💼 September 1–7 is Workplace Lactation Week!

This year's theme, “Work. Pump. Advance. Empowering the modern parent,” recognizes the dedication of parents balancing work and feeding their families.

Every parent deserves a workplace where they can feel supported in meeting their family’s needs. Creating supportive, lactation-friendly workplaces helps working parents thrive both at work and at home! 🌱

08/28/2026

Preparing for Baby Starts Before Birth

Thinking about breastfeeding? Our prenatal breastfeeding education pamphlet is a helpful resource to learn what to expect, build confidence, and prepare for your breastfeeding journey before your baby arrives. 💛

Explore the pamphlet here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hhcQBeEs5Vl2gXZUn9_NZinLuBLOo8w4/view

08/25/2026

🖤🤎 Celebrating Black Breastfeeding Week! 🤎🖤

This week, we celebrate Black mothers, babies, families, and communities who are nurturing, nourishing, and thriving through breastfeeding. ✨

Black Breastfeeding Week is a time to honor stories, uplift voices, celebrate successes, and continue building supportive spaces where every Black family feels seen, respected, and empowered.

Here’s to the mothers who feed with love, the support systems that make a difference, the advocates creating change, and the generations we’re nourishing along the way. 🫶🏾

Black breastfeeding matters. Black families matter. Black babies deserve to thrive.

Happy Black Breastfeeding Week! 🖤🤎

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08/22/2026

Celebrating Military Celebration Month by honoring the strength, dedication, and resilience of military families—and the incredible journey of breastfeeding. 💙🤱🏽

To our military moms: your commitment to nurturing your little ones while navigating the demands of military life is something to celebrate. Your support system matters, your journey matters, and you matter.

Here’s to the moms who serve, the families who support them, and the communities that lift them up. 🇺🇸💙

08/15/2026

💙 August 15–21 is AANHPI Breastfeeding Week.

This year's theme, "Better Data, Better Care for AANHPI Families," highlights the important role that data equity plays in improving care and health outcomes for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander families. 📊

Accurate, inclusive data helps identify disparities, inform policies, and ensure families receive the support they need. 🤱 As we observe AANHPI Breastfeeding Week, let's recognize the importance of closing data gaps to advance equitable maternal and infant health. 🌏✨

08/14/2026

Join us for Webinar to celebrate National Breastfeeding Month!

Join NACCHO next Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 2:00 pm EST for the webinar, Aligning Strategy and Systems to Improve Breastfeeding Outcomes: Five Years of the Continuity of Care Blueprint.

Learn how communities across the nation have translated NACCHO's Continuity of Care in Breastfeeding Support Blueprint into action to strengthen partnerships, improve referral systems, and build sustainable breastfeeding support systems for families. During this webinar, NACCHO will share successes, outcomes, and key lessons learned from this work.
This webinar will also feature:

Dr. Marlo Vernon, Augusta University Research Institute (Augusta, Georgia / Aiken, South Carolina)
Isha Johnson and Rachael Wigley, Black Mothers Breastfeeding Association (Detroit, Michigan)
Love Anderson, Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities (Durham, North Carolina)

Speakers will demonstrate different pathways for operationalizing the Blueprint to align systems, improve patient navigation, strengthen partnerships and community-driven systems, and build strategic plans that advance and sustain breastfeeding outcomes for families.

Register today: https://bit.ly/4fmxPrU
Continuing Education (CE) offerings: Participants will be eligible to receive 1.50 R-CERPS at no cost.
For questions, please email [email protected]

08/11/2026

We’re incredibly proud to celebrate Love Anderson on receiving the Innovation in Human Lactation Award at this year’s Uplifting Black and Brown Lactation Success Conference! 🏆✨

Love says: "I hope that this work has changed the world, because we have identified a national policy gap around infant and young child feeding in emergencies."

Congratulations on this well-deserved honor! We’re proud of the hard work you have done and what is to come. 💙

08/08/2026

🪴 Indigenous Milk Medicine Week (August 8–14)

During Indigenous Milk Medicine Week, we honor the traditions, knowledge, and cultural practices that have supported Indigenous families for generations. We recognize the importance of preserving these traditions while promoting equitable breastfeeding support.

To learn more: https://www.indigenousmilkmedicinecollective.org/milkmedicineweek

08/02/2026