World Breastfeeding

Week 2011

International Lactation Consultant Association

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World Breastfeeding Week 2011

• WABA’s Theme:

“Talk To Me!

Breastfeeding: A 3-D Experience”

• Highlights the importance of communication to build connections between mother, baby, and ‘third parties’:

– Family

– Friends

– Health care professionals

– Mother-to-mother support groups

World Breastfeeding Week 2011

• ILCA’s version of the 2011 Theme:

“Breastfeeding Support:

Stay Connected!”

• Highlights the ‘connections’

breastfeeding families can make

by communicating using ‘old’ and

‘new’ media

Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition Washington State, USA

WIC Breastfeeding

Celebration Tea

Baby Massage was demonstrated by

Martha Suronen, IBCLC, of Sante

Mama and Welcoming Birth

Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition Washington State, USA

WIC Breastfeeding

Celebration Tea

“Beaches” Restaurant Billboard with a different

slogan throughout the month 7/30 and 7/31: August is World Breastfeeding

Month

8/4 and 8/5: Breastfeeding- 100% Natural

Ingredients

8/6 and 8/7: Breastfeeding- Nature’s Low

Cost Health Plan

8/11 and 8/12: Breast Milk is Better than Any

Udder Milk

8/13 and 8/14: Breast Milk Has Never Been

Recalled

8/18 and 8/19: Breastfeeding - a Gift that

Lasts a Lifetime

8/20 and 8/21: Support Businesses that

Support Breastfeeding

8/25 and 8/26: Normalize Breastfeeding;

Nurse in Public!

8/27 and 8/28: Thank a Breastfeeding Mom

Today!

Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition Washington State, USA

Minnehaha Billboard

Display

Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition Washington State, USA

Display at the Vancouver

WIC office

The Big Latch On in

the Breastfeeding

Tent at the Clark

County Fair

Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition Washington State, USA

Library display

at Three Creeks

Community

Library in

Salmon Creek,

WA. By Lisa

Kudva, BSN, RN

Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition Washington State, USA

WBW cake celebrating skin-to-skin care, created by Roshini Rajeswaran

of the greater Sydney, Australia,

area.

ILCA Buttons for emails, websites, blogs, etc

International Board Certified Lactation Consultants

conducted breast feeding awareness session for

75 Nursing staff, Midwives and Nursing assistants

from Obs & gyn units, Labour Room, Pediatric

units and consulting clinics.

Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan

Nursing staff along with International Board

Certified Lactation Consultants conducted

sessions for Mothers at Maternal & Child Health

units and related Outpatient Clinics.

Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan

Nursing staff and Midwives along with Lady

Health workers conducted sessions for Mothers

at Maternal & Child Health units and related

Outpatient Clinics.

Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan

International Board Certified Lactation Consultants

conducted a breast feeding awareness session for

50 of the nursing midwifery students from

secondary hospitals.

Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan

On Sept. 8, at the AKUH Auditorium, a poster competition on the theme of

“Enhance communication to protect, promote and support breast

feeding”.

• Total 24 posters were received from Faculty SON, nursing & hospital

staff and nursing students from secondary and other hospitals.

• Poster Judgment was held by Dr. Rahat Qureshi, Consultant Obsteric

and Gyneacology, Dr. Fauziya Ali, Assistant Professor and Director,

MScN Programme, Ms. Khairunnisa Hooda, Nurse Manager & Ms.

Yasmeen Surani, HN, Labour Room.

• Faculty AKU-SON, Department of

Human Resource and student from

Secondary hopsitals, Hyderabad

received the winning prizes.

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Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan

On Sept. 8, at the AKUH Auditorium, a mini-conference has held:

• Dr. Anita Zaidi, Chief Guest, Chair Department of Paediatrics and

Child Health delivered speech on the event

• Ms. Noureen Lalani, Nurse Manager, Maternal and Child Health

Area, the Aga Khan University Hospital introduced the theme of

World breast feeding day 2011.

• Dr. Rafat Jan, Director, Midwifery Programe concentrated on the

Importance of Breast Feeding

• There were 150 participants.

• Quiz competition was held and

participants received prizes

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Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan

Nurse-In participants at Family Care Health Center in St. Louis, Missouri,

USA

Surry County Health and Nutrition Center

Dobson, North Carolina, USA

A newly-decorated

breastfeeding room

was opened during

WBW. Breakfast was

offered to staff who

toured the room.

Surry County Health and Nutrition Center’s Breastfeeding Room

Croatian and Slovenian Association of Lactation Consultants

Nils Bergman was hosted

for several conferences,

media appearances, and

hospital rounds in Croatia

and Slovenia. Read all

about it at:

http://lactationmatters.word

press.com/2011/11/10/the-

many-benefits-of-

attending-an-ilca-

conference-or-how-nils-

bergman-ended-up-in-

croatia-and-slovenia/ Nils Bergman and Irena Zakarija-Grkovic at hospital

and at television station

IBCLC Ksenija Rajkovic in front of WBW display board at her hospital, Koprivnica General Hospital (right) and

giving a talk to hospital staff on 'Breastfeeding and communication‘ (below)

Croatian and Slovenian Association of Lactation Consultants

IBCLC, Dragica Jurcevic (L) and friend promoting WBW in Rijeka (upper right)

IBCLCs on Split's main walkway in front of WBW display board and CALC poster (below right)

Croatian and Slovenian Association of Lactation Consultants

Mum and IBCLC, Zdenka Klajic

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Bailey for World Breastfeeding Week Action Kit, “Breastfeeding Support: Stay

Connected.”