La Leche League of Half Moon Bay

03/25/2026

La Leche League USA blog, New Beginnings is currently seeking contributors for this upcoming National Breastfeeding Month (and beyond) for August 2026.

If you or someone you know may be interested in writing, we still need a story for the following special observance weeks

- Indigenous Milk Medicine Week
- Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week
- Black Breastfeeding Week
- Semana de la Lactancia Latina
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing Breastfeeding Week
- Workplace Lactation Week

La Leche League USA will make a donation to an organization of your choosing as a thank you for contributing! 💚

You can share a personal story, information about breastfeeding within your culture, cultural recipes, stories about a specific breastfeeding or parenting topic, or anything else you wish to share. 700-900 words is ideal, but not required. Please share!

Please email your story submissions to Kylie at [email protected] before July 1.

08/21/2025

In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week this year, New Beginnings is featuring stories from three individuals who support lactating families in an AANHPI language (or more than one!). We hope you will enjoy reading their experiences.

Visit the link in bio to read the article, or go to https://lllusa.org/conversations-about-breastfeeding-support-in-aanhpi-languages/

08/20/2024

La Leche League USA helps parents, families, and communities to breastfeed, chestfeed, and human milk feed their babies through parent-to-parent support. LLL USA encourages, informs, educates, supports, and promotes the use of human milk and the intimate relationship and development that comes from....

08/13/2024

Join us this week for a virtual community forum!

Current and up-and-coming AANHPI lactation professional community members will share about their journey to becoming lactation professionals. It will be a casual discussion with an opportunity to engage the audience in how we as a community can bridge the gap in lactation resources for our AANHPI communities.

Details are below:
Date: Friday, August 16, 2024
Time: 1-3 PM PST
Location: Zoom
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/aanhpibwforum

07/17/2024

Calling for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders story contributors. Please comment directly under the original New Beginnings post!

Seeking responses from New Beginnings readers and followers who identify as Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) ethnically or culturally. **Responses may be used in a future blog post for La Leche League USA.**

Share your personal story or experience with breastfeeding in a public space, or in front of family members. The following questions may help prompt your response.

How did or do you breastfeed in public discreetly while trying to normalize breastfeeding at the same time?
Share your tips and advice for feeding your baby while having to navigate potential judgment, avoiding discomfort for others, and protecting yourself from unwanted attention.
Most importantly, how does carrying the cultural values of an AANHPI individual shape your perspectives on and your ability to effectively breastfeed in public?
Share your thoughts on the attitudes and support among AANHPI individuals toward breastfeeding in public.

Please share and write responses directly to this post. Thank you!

07/09/2024

Please comment directly under New Beginnings’ original post! Your personal stories can play an important role in highlighting the rich and vibrant breastfeeding culture within the AANHPI community.

Seeking responses from New Beginnings readers and followers who identify as Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) ethnically or culturally. **Responses may be used in a future blog post for La Leche League USA.**

Share your personal story or experience with a favorite, delicious, and heartwarming postpartum dish that was prepared especially for you, helping you through the early days of breastfeeding and caring for a newborn, and most importantly, reconnecting you with your very own cultural roots.

Please share and write responses directly to this post. Thank you!

08/16/2023

La Leche League USA helps parents, families, and communities to breastfeed, chestfeed, and human milk feed their babies through parent-to-parent support. LLL USA encourages, informs, educates, supports, and promotes the use of human milk and the intimate relationship and development that comes from....

08/13/2023

AANHPI Lactation Community Forum
Friday, August 18, 2023
1:00-3:00 PM PDT

Join our open panel discussion to hear from AANHPI community members and their journeys to becoming lactation support professionals!

The presentation will be followed by a discussion on how we can further build community capacity to support our AANHPI families.

Register at https://tinyurl.com/AANHPI-Lactation-Forum

08/05/2023

The Indigenous Milk Medicine Schedule is HERE!!!!!
Please mark your calendars and make plans to attend and participate in the wonderful sessions we have planned!

All events are virtual and free!!!!
- Educational Sessions
- Support Circles
- Movement Sessions
- Virtual 5K
- Collab Virtual Latch!!!

To register for individual sessions, please visit our website for the Zoom links and session descriptions. ➡️ https://www.indigenousmilkmedicinecollective.org/

We can’t wait until next week and we hope you can make time and join us!

08/02/2023

La Leche League USA helps parents, families, and communities to breastfeed, chestfeed, and human milk feed their babies through parent-to-parent support. LLL USA encourages, informs, educates, supports, and promotes the use of human milk and the intimate relationship and development that comes from....

06/24/2023

https://llli.org/lll-today-3-before-sunrise/

Heather Rose Artushin

06/18/2023