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Breastfeeding Advocacy: Nurturing Healthier Communities with Breastfeed Durham

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At Breastfeed Durham, our mission is to promote and normalize breastfeeding, particularly in communities and closing the disparity gap in breastfeeding and lactation, a key component in ensuring the health and well-being of parents and infants. We’re excited to share a significant milestone in our journey. Thanks to the generous support from Blue Line Media […]

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Medical Office Sample Lactation Policy

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For many parents, including myself, a family’s primary care providers are critical to successful lactation. Especially when you have a child with health challenges, you see your primary care provider every few days in the beginning. Our primary care provider was our point of contact for everything. Having truly supportive healthcare clinics, means having support

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Supporting Breastfeeding and Lactating Student Parents

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I would like to share some information from The Pregnant Scholar. Here is a link to join the national work group. Strategies for Equity on US Campuses The Making It Work Tool Kit for lactating parents is a resource to help breastfeeding parents return to work. It is designed to assist breastfeeding parents, their employers, and their family. Breastfeeding

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An Act of Advocacy

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Join Breastfeed Durham for a day of advocacy. Reach out to your favorite locally owned business or community organization and encourage them to apply to become a Breastfeeding Friendly Community Partner. Or reach out to your favorite bodega and/or the safe places for breastfeeding families. We intentionally ask those of you who are connected to

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Proof…Breastfeeding Saves Lives!

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We wanted to share these remarkable studies that proves what many of us have known for a long time. Unequivocal evidence that breastfeeding decreases infant mortality in the United States. We welcome you to review the following studies: Breastfeeding and post-perinatal infant deaths in the United States, A national prospective cohort analysis.Ruowei Li, Julie Ware, Aimin Chen, Jennifer M. Nelson, Jennifer M. Kmet, Sharyn E. Parks, Ardythe

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