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Check out our newsletter for April 2025. Watch the webinar recaps for Black Maternal Health Week and learn more about events hosted during the week.

Are you considering breastfeeding, but did not breastfeed with previous children? Are you trying to decide if breastfeeding is worth...

January 2025 Newsletter: New Resources, Tools, and Events

We hope you are enjoying Black Breastfeeding Week! The 2022 theme (and 10th anniversary year) is, “10 Years, A New Foundation”. The rate...

Happy National Breastfeeding Awareness Month! It is our favorite time of the year. Every year, we celebrate this month and Black...

Learn all about breastfeeding and exercising, including dispelling myths, the positive impact of exercise, and tips.

For the last week of Black History Month, we are celebrating the next generation of Black women researchers in breastfeeding and Black...

As the political climate in this country is ever-changing, public health leaders need to find innovative, timely, and real-world solutions..

For the last week of Black History Month, we are celebrating the next generation of Black women researchers in breastfeeding and Black...

For many reasons, 2020 was a historic year. While surviving a global pandemic with an unimaginable number of lives lost, we also have...

Both received support and perceived support for breastfeeding predict breastfeeding success (Mitra et al., 2004). Several typologies...

Author and wellness consultant, Alex Elle, shares her breastfeeding journey with our breastfeeding boot camp participants.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of an infant’s life and the continuation of...

Are you ready for Black Breastfeeding Week (08/25 - 8/31)? We have a full week ahead. Mark your calendars for all of our events & appearance

What? Black Girls’ Breastfeeding Club is launching our bEarth Work app, which makes it easier for Black mothers and birthing persons to...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the nation's 2018 Breastfeeding Report Card.

May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month and May 4th through 8th is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week. Becoming a mother and...

Learn about one mother's story through birth and accepting donor breast milk for her child. Sometimes breastfeeding looks like this.

In research with Black mothers who participate in online groups for breastfeeding support, one thing is clear.... Black mothers desire to...

In the United States, Black women are more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women. Doulas (and...