Breastfeeding Committee For Canada | Baby Friendly Initiative

🚨BCC MEMBERS, SAVE THE DATE🚨

2026 AGM will be held April 16th, 2026.
2-3PM ET
Meeting link to follow closer to the date.

Did you know:
Skin-to-skin
- reduces post traumatic stress symptoms that may follow after giving birth
- prevents neonatal hypoglycaemia
- supports microbiota development in infants
- breastfeed sooner than those who do not

#valentinesday #love #skintoskin #kangaroocare #breastfeeding #chestfeeding

Advocacy works best when many voices speak together.
If you haven’t yet, download BCC’s MLA letter template and send yours today.
Your voice can help shape healthier futures - across generations.

Take action: get the template letter link in our Bio's Linktree.

#BabyFriendlyCanada #WriteYourMLA

Get the template letter here: breastfeedingcanada.ca/wp-content/u...

All families deserve evidence-based infant feeding support free from commercial influence.

Mandating the Baby-Friendly Initiative helps protect families, reduces health inequities, & supports informed choices.

Add your voice today: link in comments
#BabyFriendlyCanada #HealthEquity #WriteYourMLA

Breastfeeding saves lives and #healthcare dollars. Suboptimal #breastfeeding costs Ontario over $130 million annually, with thousands of avoidable hospital visits. Baby-Friendly Care is evidence-based & cost effective.
Tell your MLA it’s time to act: breastfeedingcanada.ca/wp-content/u...

Advocating for breastfeeding shouldn’t be complicated.
We’ve launched a downloadable letter you can send your MLA calling for Baby-Friendly care as a standard in Canada
Get it: https://f.mtr.cool/mzwepmjszs

#BabyFriendlyCanada #WriteYourMLA

Call for 2026 Board of Directors nominations:

Nomination period:
We invite you to nominate yourself or a colleague (with permission) by midnight (ET) on Friday, February 27, 2026

Learn more:
breastfeedingcanada.ca/wp-content/u...

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Peer support plays a critical role in helping families initiate and sustain breastfeeding. Link in comments:

Speakers:
Nikki Bell (Le Leche League Canada)
Jennifer Quin (Breastfeeding Buddies)
Robyn Brown (Milk Mentors)

#BFI #chestfeeding #breastfeeding #peersupport #babyfriendlyinitiative

There's still space available in this upcoming Empowering Conversations course, a highly practical, skills-based workshop designed for IBCLCs, public health nurses, healthcare providers, community workers, and peer supporters.

Special Offer: $25 
6 CERPs 

www.lllc.ca/empowering-conversations

May your days be merry and bright, and your nights be filled with peace, closeness, and hope. From all of us at the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada.

#BFI #babyfriendlyinitiative #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #baby #infant #parent

As the season invites quiet and closeness, we recognize the bond that allows families to nurture and sustain a child. Wishing families comfort, connection, and well-being this season.

#seasonsgreetings #holidays #bfi #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #parent #family #baby #nurture #sustainability

The 2025 Cochrane Review validates again that Skin To Skin is a key element of care delivery. 2025 Update integrates the evidence found since 2015.

www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

#skintoskin #kangaroocare #birth #deliveryroom #babyfriendlyinitiative #BFI #breastfeeding #chestfeeding

Join us for our November 5th BFI Round Table Gathering.
Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/70d430...

#BFI #babyfriendlyinitiative #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #humanmilk #infantfeeding #healthcare

Recordings are now available of the virtual speaker series from National Breastfeeding Week 2025!
Go to: shorturl.at/DbU1R

#NBW2025 #nationalbreastfeedingweek #sustainability #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #humanmilk #infantnutrition #canada #healthcare

Join this @UBC WEBINAR:
- Prenatal Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Childhood Autism and Behavior
- How do wildfires shape the health of the next generation?

Register now:
scienceofbirth.ubc.ca/events/regis...

#wildfire #prenatal #smokeinhalation #autism #health #childhood #baby #infant #ubc

Join us for our virtual speaker event today:
Topics include:
- Introduction to #breastfeeding and the #environment & #emergency situations
- Integrating #wildfire risk into #prenatal health promotion

#nationalbreastfeedingweek #sustainability #humanmilk #NBW2025 #infantfeeding

This #NationalBreastfeedingWeek, we join @WHO & @UNICEF in calling for:
✅ More investment in maternal & newborn care
✅ Educated health workers to support breastfeeding
✅ Stronger community health systems
✅ Protection from harmful marketing practices

#NBW2025 #sustainability #breastfeeding

On World Breastfeeding Week, countries urged to invest in health systems and support breastfeeding mothers Strengthening health systems to support breastfeeding is not just a health imperative, it is a moral and economic imperative. WHO and UNICEF remain committed to supporting countries to build resilient...

Source: www.who.int/news/item/04...

💡 Every $1 invested in breastfeeding generates $35* in economic returns. #Breastfeeding is not only a #health imperative, it's an #economic and moral one.
(US Dollars)
#NationalBreastfeedingWeek #PrioritizeBreastfeeding #NBW2025 #chestfeeding #humanmilk #sustainability

New from @who.int
2nd edition: Model Chapter for medical textbooks on infant & young child feeding summarizes the essential knowledge that healthcare pros & others need to protect, promote,& support optimal infant and young child feeding. shorturl.at/WcYC7

#NBW2025 #worldbreastfeedingweek

During Canada's #NationalBreastfeedingWeek, we call on governments across the country to invest in health systems that support #breastfeeding families.
Breastfeeding saves lives: it's a baby's first vaccine, protecting against diseases like diarrhoea & pneumonia.
#NBW2025 #sustainability #support

HAPPY NATIONAL BREASTFEEDING WEEK!
Join us today for our first day of virtual presentations. Go to breastfeedingcanada.ca/events to register for today or other days of our speaker series for #nbw2025

#nationalbreastfeedingweek
#breastfeeding
#chestfeeding
#sustainable
#support

#breastfeeding #chestfeeding #nationalbreastfeedingweek #canadianbreastfeedingweek #sustainability #supportsystems #environment #NBW #NBW2025 #lactation #humanmilk #infantnutrition #communitysupport #infantfeeding #October #Canada #parents #employers #virtual #online

Only 2 more days to go!
📅 Register Now 📅 for our October National Breastfeeding Week's FREE Virtual Speaker Series! Link in Bio, or go to www.breastfeedingcanada.ca/events

This year's #NBW2025 theme is "Prioritise Breastfeeding: Create sustainable support systems".

WBTi Canada Launch Webinar on October 2nd, 2025:

Join us for the first WBTi Canada Webinar on the inaugural national assessment during National Breastfeeding Week, on October 2nd, 12:00–1:00 PM Eastern Time.

Link to webinar:
meet.google.com/isa-ykzj-ehp

You're invited to our upcoming BFI Roundtable!

Please join us on November 5th, 2025 from 12-1:30PM EST.

Register here: bit.ly/4nGObNr

#roundtable #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #lactation #BFI #babyfriendlyinitiative

National Breastfeeding Week 2025 - Breastfeeding Committee for Canada The theme for this year’s National Breastfeeding Week Toolkit is Prioritising Breastfeeding - Create sustainable support systems. We encourage you to explore the toolkit and see what you, your workpla...

Plant A Milk Garden! 🍁🌷🌾This is one way you can celebrate #NationalBreastfeedingWeek in Canada (October 1-7). Watch your #perennial #garden blossom in the future, just like children do.
Get more NBW activity ideas on our website:
breastfeedingcanada.ca/en/national-...

#breastfeeding
#chestfeeding

Project focuses on the strategies #healthcare professionals use to advise #pregnant individuals on managing risks related to #wildfires. Seeking to interview those working with pregnant individuals, regardless of whether their region has been directly affected by wildfires. Interviews = 30mins