Breastfeeding Communities

First Food Equity: Fully Integrating Lactation Support into Patient Visits

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Are you a provider in Durham County? Are you passionate about incorporating lactation support into your patient visits? On March 14, 2023, Breastfeed Durham hosted a presentation and discussion on how medical professionals can successfully partner to fully integrate appropriate lactation support into patient visits by Emily Harmon, MD, IBCLC as part of our First Food

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Welcoming New Community Health Worker

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I am extremely excited to introduce Andrea Chicas, our new community health worker! Andrea was born in New York but moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at an early age where she was raised. Andrea graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she studied Public Health. As a native Spanish speaking,  first-generation college

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Equity Before Birth Dance Party

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Equity Before Birth is a nonprofit charity organization that saves the lives of Black birthers and their babies by increasing access to pregnancy-related support and services and eliminating financial barriers to these services. Equity Before Birth is organizing a Dance Party Fundraiser in observance of Black Maternal Health Week. The organization’s mission is to save

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Free Perinatal Mental Health Screening Clinic

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Perinatal mental health refers to mental health during pregnancy and the postpartum period. At Breastfeed Durham, we believe that all birthing people experiencing perinatal mental health struggles should have access to proper screening, diagnosis, and treatment. To that degree, we want to share with our community: Anchor Perinatal Wellness. Based in Raleigh, Anchor Perinatal Wellness

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It’s Time to Celebrate

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We celebrate Black History Month by acknowledging our black people in the things that we do to make a difference in the world. Whether it’s acting, singing, inventing, breastfeeding, or humanitarian efforts, we celebrate “the Black people who have built this country.” Let’s do something different this month. In 2020-2022, celebrities and more people have

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SisterSong Birth Justice Care Fund

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SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective was formed in 1997 by 16 organizations of women of color from four mini-communities (Native American, African American, Latina, and Asian American) who recognized that we have the right and responsibility to represent ourselves and our communities, and the equally compelling need to advance the perspectives and needs

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First Food Equity: Gaps in Care for Lactating Families in Durham

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Are you a provider in Durham County? Are you passionate about closing gaps in care related to lactation support? Breastfeed Durham hosted a discussion on Gaps in Care for Lactating Families in Durham, presented by Maya Jackson, founder and Executive Director of Mobilizing African American Mothers through Empowerment (MAAME, Inc.), as part of our First

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2022 Breastfeed Durham Reflections

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Editor’s note (September 2026): This post is kept as part of Breastfeed Durham’s history and reflects 2022. Reflections help us learn, grow, understand, and appreciate our experiences. Thank you to our staff, volunteers, community partners, and community members for sharing how you have engaged and the impactful and memorable experiences you’ve had with Breastfeed Durham this past

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