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Want to learn more about how WIC can support you on your breastfeeding journey? 🤔
Tune into Instagram Live event TOMORROW, August 7th at 8 pm ET to hear from a WIC breastfeeding peer counselor and a staff person about the breastfeeding benefits the program has to offer!

Can’t make it? Stay tuned for another WIC Breastfeeding IG live next Wednesday at the same time! ✨

With Trillium House-Birth Center – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

https://www.cdc.gov/infant-feeding-emergencies-toolkit/php/introduction.html #:~:text=It%20is%20important%20to%20address%20infant%20and%20young,the%20nutrition%2C%20health%2C%20and%20development%20of%20the%20child.

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Read how a group of Doulas set up an emergency hot line to help families, especially breastfeeding mothers after Hurricane Laura . I

“A Vulnerable Time To Be a Young Family in an Emergency”: Qualitative Findings From an Exploration of an Emergency Perinatal and Infant Feeding Hotline in Louisiana - Tyra T. Gross, Malaika Ludman, Alexis Woods Barr, 2024 Background: Birthmark Doula Collective, a cooperative that provides doula and lactation services in the Greater New Orleans area, mounted an emergency response ...

Dads can be part of the first embrace!
When fathers hold babies skin-to-skin, it helps them stay warm and safe. It’s a simple but powerful way of improving the health of preterm and low-birth-weight babies.

Yes! Use ALL the breastfeeding support available to you; friends and family who have breastfeed, your local IBCLCs in your area both in the hospital and those available after you go home (I'm one of them!!!), the Baby Cafe at Virginia Baptist Hospital, and our local La Leche League of Lynchburg, VA group meetings, both in person and virtual monthly. There are breastfeeding "Peer Counselors" at the Health Department. If breastfeeding seems hard or hurts (it is supposed to be easy and completely comfortable), or you have concerns about your baby not getting enough milk, , reach out. https://go.lactationnetwork.com/BestStartParentingCenter

Never just a one-and-done! Your local Baby Café is set up to welcome you in as many times as you want and need to come in. We collect data that PROVES that breastfeeding mothers and parents who come in for Baby Café drop-ins more times meet OR exceed their own breastfeeding goals! Connect with your local Baby Café today - whether you're pregnant or breastfeeding already - we're ready to meet you and join you on your breastfeeding and milk-making journey!!
www.babycafeusa.org

Skin-to-skin. Such a precious moment of bonding and euphoria as well as physiologically beneficial to regulate your baby's temperature, breathing and heart rate! Trillium midwives honor skin-to-skin during your immediate postpartum, but also recommend it for weeks after birth!🥰🥰

📣Millions of kids rely on for access to healthy foods.
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Today is World Day.

Anyone can drown, no one should. Drowning prevention starts with you:

👀 Supervise children & don’t look away when they're near water.
🦺 Use safety equipment like life jackets & make sure they’re in place before going out on a boat.
🏊‍♂️ Learn to swim, or if you can’t swim, stay away from the water.
🌧️ Check the weather conditions, the depth of the water & the strength of the current before entering the water.
🚫 Don’t drink alcohol near water, it dulls your senses & can cause fatal accidents near water.

Remember! Drowning is often silent & goes unnoticed. Watch for the signs when someone is struggling to stay afloat, it’s never too soon to respond.

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