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Black Breastfeeding Week 2024

27 August, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

“Breastfeeding is a radical act of reclaiming our health, our bodies, and our future.” August 25th to 31st marks Black Breastfeeding Week 2024, the last week of Breastfeeding Awareness Month. In the US, but also in the UK, black mothers experience significantly worse health outcomes during their pregnancy and childbirth, and breastfeeding rates in the US are also lower amongst these communities. According to Kimberly Seals Allers, black author and activist’s book “The Big Let Down – How Medicine, Big…

Black Breastfeeding Week

24 August, 2022 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

From 25th to 31st of August, we are celebrating Black Breastfeeding Week! This event has been organised for the past 10 years, calling for breastfeeding support to be based on racial equality, cultural empowerment and community engagement, driven by the collective resilience of the black community. Kimberly Seals Allers is one of three black maternity activists who launched this project 10 years ago. She is an acclaimed and award-winning journalist and considered one of the leading voices of the counterculture…

Welcome to World Breastfeeding Week 2021!

3 August, 2021 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

The Week ahead at LactApp This week we celebrate World Breastfeeding Week 2021, an occasion that our cofounder Alba has been celebrating over 20 times and every year more associations, brands and individuals join. This year the official theme of worldbreastfeedingweek.org is all about #ProtectBreastfeeding #SharedResponsibility and #buildingbackbetter. At LactApp we are here for breastfeeding mothers every day of the year, but on this occasion, we would like to look back to what was a very difficult year for many, and probably most mothers…