Black Breastfeeding Week- Arizona

Year 2022

Year 2021

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Black Breastfeeding Week 2020

  • Promotes breastfeeding in black communities for black mothers, to lower infant mortality rates

  • Highlights physical, emotional, and societal benefits of breastfeeding

  • Making cognitive connection that choosing to breastfeed helps keep babies alive and thriving

  • Advocating for breastfeeding in black community promotes life-long wellness by lessening the rate of diet-related diseases such as diabetes and childhood obesity

  • Promote confidence, self-esteem, and trust in providers for Black families in Arizona 

  • Highlighting black lactation professionals and their work in community to support Black women and breastfeeding

  • Address and educate on historical context of breastfeeding, slavery, and why Black women have had barriers or challenges to breastfeeding 

  • To combat areas where there is little to no familial, community, or professional support for Black breastfeeding families 

  • To continue the legacy of supporting black breastfeeding in Arizona

  • To build and connect to a larger nationwide campaign to address challenges to and to promote Black Breastfeeding

  • To be confident, feel supported, reassured, uplifted, connected to each other, to professionals, gain personal and community resources, to be celebrated by and in their community

Images by Keosha Miller

 Black Breastfeeding Week Arizona

2021