New AAP Policy: Pediatricians Should Partner With Community Lactation Support

Racial Equity, Providers /

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a new policy statement naming implicit bias, interpersonal microaggressions, and structural racism as real barriers to breastfeeding, and the very first solution it names is partnership with community health workers. That is who we are. The entire Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities framework is built around community health workers and health educators, and around training clinicians to think the way community health workers think. To see that named in national pediatric policy is significant. Read the full policy statement.

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Congratulations, Becca!

Advocacy, Breastfeeding Communities, Parent Information /

[PHOTO: Becca and her family — provided by Becca, August 2026] Some people join a coalition. Becca Brandt French joined ours and quietly made it better in about four different directions at once. This summer, Becca welcomed a brand-new baby. And with support from Breastfeed Durham, Becca completed the Certified Breastfeeding Specialist program through Lactation Education Resources.

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Better Data, Better Care: The Need for Disaggregated Health Metrics for South Asian and AANHPI Mothers

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Observed annually from August 15 to 21, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Breastfeeding Week draws attention to the diverse lactation experiences, cultural contexts, and systemic barriers affecting families across AANHPI communities (Asian Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Task Force of LA County / USBC AANHPI Caucus, 2020–2026). This year’s theme, “Better Data, Better Care

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Beyond the Screen: What Door-to-Door Public Health Outreach Taught Me in Durham

Advocacy, Breastfeeding Communities /

By Nicola Bronson, MPH CandidateUNC Gillings School of Global Public HealthField Placement with Breastfeed Durham, Summer 2026 My name is Nikki, and I have spent the last ten weeks working as Breastfeed Durham’sBusiness Outreach Coordinator. In practice, this meant walking through Durham neighborhoodsand knocking on the door of every church, restaurant, retail store, coffee shop, doctor’s

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How the Lactation Collaborative Began: Co-Founder Jess Woon

Breastfeeding Communities, Lactation Collaborative, Parent Information /

When Jess Woon describes the work of the Breastfeed Durham Lactation Collaborative, the word that anchors everything is one most clinics never use. Our hope is that through the Collaborative, families feel more than educated. They feel held. A labor and delivery nurse turned postpartum nurse turned International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Jess co-founded the

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From a Hard Moment to a Warm Welcome: Simons Says Dip This Joins Breastfeeding Welcome Here

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Every now and then something happens in our community that reminds us exactly why this work matters — and how good people respond when it does. This week, a Durham mother sat down to feed her baby at a local ice cream shop and was asked to cover up. For a nursing parent, that moment

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