As a result of the COVID lockdown, Whānau Mai (Te Puawaitanga’s kaupapa Māori pregnancy and parenting programme) was no longer able to continue in its group format. As it moved to an online format, videos were developed to readily deliver some of the course’s content. CanBreastFeed did the breastfeeding sessions in the wānanga so Kelly…
Please find our first newsletter here We are really excited to have developed our first newsletter and plan to make this a 4-6-weekly email-out. If you would like to receive this as an email, please email us at canbreastfeed@omwwl.maori.nz and we can add you to our email list.
I write this on the last day of World Breastfeeding Week 2019. This years theme was “Empower parents, Enable breastfeeding”. We loved this message as it is one that is directed towards the wider community rather than towards breastfeeding families. We know breastfeeding families are aware of the impact of breastfeeding, because we have a…
We are excited to announce that the 2019 Big Latch On will be held at the Eastgate Shopping Centre, 20 Buckleys Road, Linwood on Friday August 2nd. The event runs from 9:30am, with the big count of all pēpi breastfeeding at once at 10:30am on the dot. The Big Latch On event has been running…
The Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service is super-excited to announce that The New Brighton Project has just been certified as being a Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace. Breastfeeding provides a number of well-evidenced health benefits both to breastfeeding women and to their babies. Women report that returning to the paid workforce is a common reason for breastfeeding journeys to…
This is a presentation originally given at the La Leche League Health Professional’s Breastfeeding Seminar in Christchurch in October 2018. This link will take you to a video of it being presented at the Baby-Friendly meeting held in Wellington in November 2018. Thank you to NZBA for supporting it, for filming it and for providing…
Eastgate Shopping Centre acknowledged as Breastfeeding-Friendly. The Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service is super-excited to announce that Eastgate Shopping Centre has just been certified as being a Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace. Breastfeeding provides a number of well-evidenced health benefits both to breastfeeding women and to their babies. Women report that returning to the paid workforce is a…
The Loft is a community of agencies with the collective purpose “to enhance outcomes for children, young people, families and communities by achieving the optimum added value that co-located community well-being services has to offer.” It offers a new way for the people of Canterbury to access a wide range of health and well-being services…
We recently had the pleasure of awarding the University of Canterbury Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace status. Breastfeeding is well researched and recognised as providing many short and long term health and wellbeing benefits to babies, mothers, families and communities. Today, for a myriad of reasons, many women are returning to work after the birth of their baby…
The Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service and the Canterbury Breastfeeding Network ran a Big Latch On Event at the McFaddens Centre in St Albans on Friday, August 3, 2018. The event was very well attended with 55 latched mothers and babies/toddlers recorded. We were fortunate to be able to offer more space this year allowing us…