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

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

Shujana Keraudren is an academic midwife with an interest in incorporating salutogenic theories within maternal and child health research. She is a Midwifery Lecturer and leads on the Baby Friendly Initiatives for the Midwifery Department. #Midwifery #BabyFriendlyInitiative

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

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

⏰Reminder!⏰ Register for our upcoming Community Baby-Friendly Initiative Collaborative (CBFI-C) information webinar happening next Tuesday June 24th at 1pm EST.

To register go to: shorturl.at/z9x62

#BFI #BabyFriendlyInitiative #CBFI #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #healthcare #communityhealth

Have you got your membership for 2025?
Your membership fee of $35.00/year supports the work of the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada.

Get more info at
www.breastfeedingcanada.ca/membership

#membership
#breastfeeding
#babyfriendlyinitiative
#reminder

The BCC invites its members to apply to join the new BCC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) standing committee.
If you have any questions, please reach out to bccboard@breastfeedingcanada.ca

#DEI #BFI #babyfriendlyinitiative #breastfeeding #chestfeeding

The BCC invites its members to apply to join the new BCC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) standing committee. If you have any questions, please reach out to bccboard@breastfeedingcanada.ca

#DEI #BFI #babyfriendlyinitiative #breastfeeding #chestfeeding

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
-Lao Tzu

Kathy O'Grady & Michelle LeDrew

#BFI #BabyFriendlyInitiative #leadership #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #infantfeeding

The BCC invites its members to apply to join the new BCC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) standing committee. If you have any questions, please reach out to bccboard@breastfeedingcanada.ca
#DEI #BFI #babyfriendlyinitiative #breastfeeding #chestfeeding

The BCC invites its members to apply to join the new BCC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) standing committee. If you have any questions, please reach out to bccboard@breastfeedingcanada.ca
#DEI #BFI #babyfriendlyinitiative #breastfeeding #chestfeeding

Have you got your membership for 2025?
Your membership fee of $35.00/year supports the work of the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada.

Get more info at
www.breastfeedingcanada.ca/membership

#membership
#breastfeeding
#babyfriendlyinitiative
#reminder

⏰Save The Date!⏰
Baby-Friendly Initiative Round Table
Tuesday 4th March, 2025
12:00 – 13:30 ET
Further details coming soon.

Contact bfiprojectdirector@bccbfi.com for the meeting link.

#BFI
#babyfriendlyinitiative

We're pleased to welcome Emma Seager as the new National BCC Baby-Friendly Project Director, focusing on community health settings. She will lead THRIVE, a research grant funded by CIHR & is a partnership with University of Manitoba

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#babyfriendlyinitiative
#welcome

Rady researchers receive more than $1 million toward breastfeeding initiatives Researchers from the Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, have received more than $1.1 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to improve br

#MCHPResearch Director Dr. Nathan Nickel told UMToday how recent CIHR funding will support the THRIVE #Breastfeeding research team's expansion of the
Breastfeeding Committee for Canada's #BabyFriendlyInitiative into #CommunityHealth centres.
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