2025 National Breastfeeding Month Events

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2025 Recognition Weeks

• August 1-31 – 2025 National Breastfeeding Month
  • Theme: Forward Together
  • More info: usbreastfeeding.org/national-breastfeeding-month.html
• August 1-7 – 2025 World Breastfeeding Week
  • Theme: Prioritise Breastfeeding. Create sustainable support systems.
  • More info: worldbreastfeedingweek.org
• August 1-7 – 2025 National WIC Breastfeeding Week
  • More info: wicworks.fns.usda.gov/topic/health-observances/national-wic-breastfeeding-week
• August 8-14 – 2025 Indigenous Milk Medicine Week
  • Theme: Unapologetically Indigenous: Love, Landback, & Liberation
  • More info: indigenousmilkmedicinecollective.org/milkmedicineweek
• August 15-21 – 2025 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week
  • More info: indigenousmilkmedicinecollective.org/milkmedicineweek
• August 22-24 – Military Lactation Celebration
  • More info: globalmilcom.org/
• August 25-31 – 2025 Black Breastfeeding Week
  • Theme: Boots on the Ground
  • More info: blackbreastfeedingweek.org/ and facebook.com/BlackBreastfeedingWeek/
• September 1-7 – 2025 Workplace Lactation Week
  • Theme: A World of Support: Creating Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplaces Everywhere
  • More info: healthyhorizons.com/blogs/blog/workplace-lactation-week

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These events are sponsored and run by other groups and organizations. The New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition takes no responsibility for the description, content, or speakers. These listings are for informational purposes only.

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Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Cost: $30
Register: cjfhc.org/news-events/event/2025/08/06/2025-monmouth-ocean-breastfeeding-consortium-annual-virtual-conference-/519785

• 8:10 am – Supporting Families in the NICU: Strategies to Maximize Milk Production & How Much Milk is Enough?, Ilana Levene, BM, BCh, MRCPCH, DPhil (Oxon)
• 10:00 am – Going Beyond Supply & Demand, Tenise Hordge, DHA, MBA, BSE, IBCLC
• 12:30 pm – WIC Panel
• 1:00 pm – Lactation Pharmacology: How Does Medication Transfer Into Milk, Kaytlin Krutsch, PhD, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
• 2:00 pm – Lactation Pharmacology: Bridging Research & Reality, Kaytlin Krutsch, PhD, PharmD, MBA, BCPS

Registration now open! When registering, please be sure to use your home e-mail address, especially if you anticipate issues receiving e-mails at work. Filters and firewalls at work may prevent you from receiving your registration confirmation, link to view webinar, evaluation and continuing education hours/CERPS.

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON AUGUST 5, 2025 AT 5:00 PM. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS.

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Strategies in Lactation Support: Addressing Ethics and Family-Centered Care

Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2025, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Location: Hudson County Schools of Technology, Secaucus
Cost: $75. Early bird ticket price is $60 if purchased by July 29, 2025
Register: pmch.org/event/strategies-in-lactation-support/
Target Audience: Nurses, lactation consultants and counselors, doulas, community health workers
Continuing education: 3 L-CERPs (1 L-CERP for each breakout session), 2 E-CERPs, and 1 R-CERP. Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours: 4.0.

• 9:15 am – Successful Long-Term Lactation via Paternal Preparation and Education, Peter Bullock, CD
• 10:15 am – NJ Breastfeeding Strategic Plan Update, Videsha Joshi, MPH
• 10:45 am – Breakout groups
  • Session A: Providing Expert IBCLC Support to Families Breastfeeding in the Presence of Ankyloglossia, Carmen Baker-Clark, BA, IBCLC, RLC
  • Session B: Lactation Support Beyond the Fourth Trimester: Debunking Myths, Vickie Nizin, IBCLC
  • Session C: Navigating Prenatal Breastfeeding Education, Brittany Wright, MPH, IBCLC, CBS
• 12:45 pm – Unravel Conflict-of-Interest with International [WHO] Code: How predatory marketing plays with our minds, Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC, FILCA

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World Breastfeeding Month Lecture Series Prioritize Breastfeeding & Create Sustainable Support Systems

Free, fully virtual
When: Every Wednesday of August, 9 am – 10 am

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Lactation Professionals

Register here: events.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/event/breastfeedingmonth2025/summary

• Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
  • Breastfeeding: A Multi-Faceted Sustainable Support System
    • Alicia Dermer, M.D., FABM, NABBLM-C Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Centrastate Family Medicine Residency Program
• Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
  • How Programs Create Stability for Families from Pregnancy to Parenting and Beyond
    • Justin Silpe, PhD CSO PumpKin-Baby, NJBC Trustee
• Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 9:00  A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
  • Underutilization of Breastfeeding Services: How to Better Support the Black Dyad and to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding
    • Kashieka Phillips Community Alignment Program Supervisor Partnership for Maternal & Child Health of Northern New Jersey
• Wednesday, Aug 27, 2025 9:00  A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
  • Black Breastfeeding Week: Under-utilization of breastfeeding services: how to better support the Black dyad and to promote exclusive breastfeeding
    • Natashia Conner, PhD., M.Phil, MS, IBCLC Board-Certified Health Education Specialist, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant and Public Health Expert

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