World Breastfeeding Week!

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Mothers, and mothers-to-be, may be interested to learn about the World Breastfeeding Week events!  This is a World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) annual event.  The aim of this event is to celebrate and support breastfeeding, and to educate the public about its benefits and increase the cultural acceptance of it.  They hope to increase support for mothers to achieve the “gold standard of infant feeding: breastfeeding exclusively for six months, and providing appropriate complementary foods with continued breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond.”

Listen to the NPR discussion based on the 2007 World Breastfeeding Week event on breastfeeding barriers, issues and current state. (If you have problems with the link, copy and paste the following into your browser: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12556598).

Go to their website www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org to find out when the next event will be, and to learn about the past events.