Check out the following local and online events promoting breastfeeding and lactation:

Tuesday August 1st

Wednesday August 2nd

Wednesday, August 2nd

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

To kick off to National Breastfeeding Month, Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley Lactation Center is hosting a resource fair at 5555 W. Las Positas Blvd. Pleasanton, CA. We hope to see you there!

Thursday August 3rd

Friday August 4th

Come by the ACBC and LatCh table to say "hi!"

Tuesday August 8th

For World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center (TVHC) WIC will hold two in-person classes in August:

“Celebrating and Enabling Breastfeeding:”

Spanish:   Tuesday, August 8, 2023  3pm-4:30pm

                  2^nd Floor Conference Room

                  TVHC WIC Hayward

                  22331 Mission Blvd

                  Hayward, CA 94541            

English:     Thu, August 10, 2023      10am-11:30am

                   TVHC WIC Union City Conference Room

                  32970 Alvarado-Niles Rd Ste 760

                  Union City, CA 94587

We will have goodies for each attendee and raffle prizes.

Contact: Anna Lopez, IBCLC

                 [email protected]

                510.471.5913 Option 2

Thursday August 17th

Pacific Islander Maternal Child Health

Thursday August 17th 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Join the community discussion for Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week focused especially on on Pacific Islander families in Alameda County.

Includes special data report by Lisa Goldberg, MPP, MPH, Alameda County MPCAH Epidemiologist.

Tuesday August 22nd

Mommy Meet Up Group at De Fremery Park

Tuesday August 22 at 11am

West Oakland Health Center WIC is partnering with Breast Friends to have a

Mommy Meet Up Group at De Fremery Park

for any pregnant moms, and moms who are breastfeeding baby's/toddlers up to age 3.

For more information contact:

WOHC WIC Breastfeeding Coordinator Sydney Jones at [email protected]

Do you have an event for Breastfeeding Awareness Month that you would like to share with the community through the ACBreastfeeds newsletter?

Send it in today so we can share in next week's August edition!

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