World Breastfeeding Week 2023

La Leche League Dubai
Theme: Pumping 101
Date: World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August)
Location: Dubai, UAE
Activity Platform: Both (physical and virtual)
Description: Anchor optimal paid leave and workplace support as important tools to enable breastfeeding, engage with individuals and organisations to enhance collaboration and support for breastfeeding at work.
La Leche League of Egypt
​Event platform: free online seminar
Dates: August 2 - 8
Languages: Arabic and English
Topics:
  • Maintaining breastfeeding after returning to work (English)
  • The first hour after birth (Arabic)
  • The secrets of choosing a pump and ensuring the effectiveness of expressing milk after returning to work (Arabic)
  • Late onset decreasing milk supply (English)
  • Breastfeeding and returning to work (Arabic)
  • Psychological changes of a nursing mother (Arabic)
  • Human milk components and long-term benefits of breastfeeding (Arabic and English)
Speakers: Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, and South Africa
Click here to register.
Offer to La Leche League Groups worldwide
​to view thought-provoking documentary “Untying Breastfeeding". The film is 57 minutes long in English with close captions/subtitles available in Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Urdu.  La Leche League Leaders are encouraged to organize virtual or in-person screenings within La Leche League ​ Groups during World Breastfeeding Week, August 1 – 7.
​Please contact LLL Asia & Middle East.

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La Leche League International fully supports the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions.  See here for more information.