Sunday, August 02, 2009

Happy World Breastfeeding Week.


August 1st-7th is World Breastfeeding Week .

Here's some information from the official press release:

"From 1-7 August 2009, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), and breastfeeding advocates in more than 150 countries worldwide will be celebrating World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) for the 18th year. This year, WABA teams up with the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) and the International Baby Food Action Network-Geneva Infant Feeding Association (IBFAN-GIFA) who represent an international collaboration of United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations (IFE Core Group) concerned with protection and support of safe and appropriate infant and young child feeding in emergencies. Together we call for the active protection and support of breastfeeding during emergencies and the prevention and refusal of donations of breastmilk substitutes1, bottles and teats that, too often, do more harm than good."


To celebrate WBW, I went stomping through my archives for my favorite posts on the topic.


Here they are in no particular order:


Funny:


Serious:


Even more serious:


Deep Thoughts/Religious:


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