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IT’S WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK!

Every year, August 1-7 is deemed World Breastfeeding Week.  The month of August is World Breastfeeding Month.  Stay tuned all month for educational and empowering information about breastfeeding from all over the globe.  

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Things we talked about:

Things coming up this month to showcase breastfeeding [3:14]

Breastfeeding Rates [5:00]

Return to Work and breastfeeding stats [9:26]

Norway [9:58]

Rates for babies who are ever breastfed [11:40]

Rwanda [12:35]

Mongolia [16:17]

Extended breastfeeding – amazing statistic supporting expended breastfeeding [23:14]

Brazil [26:07]

Formula stats in the billions of dollars [28:06]

How breastfeeding impacts our planet [29:30]

How you can help [32:00]

Shout out of the week – Moms Rising [21:58]

https://www.momsrising.org

This episode is sponsored by Puracy and Fairhaven Health

Other episodes we mentioned this week, or we just think you should check them out~

https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/087-breastfeeding-toddlers-and-small-children/

https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/025-back-to-work/

The cool articles we talked about~

https://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2016/breastfeeding_brief.pdf

https://www.mothering.com/articles/10-breastfeeding-traditions-from-around-the-world/

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/326049/WHO-NMH-NHD-19.22-eng.pdf?ua=1

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Music we use~

Music: "Levels of Greatness" from "We Used to Paint Stars in the Sky (2012)" courtesy of Scott Holmes at freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott Holmes