Breastfeeding Awareness Week Ideas

There is no government funding for Breastfeeding Awareness Week this year but that need not stop us!

I asked on the Lactivist Facebook page  for ideas for events to promote breastfeeding. So far we have this list, please feel free to add to it and I’ll follow it up with more details that can help, including a draft press release.

I’ll also collect a bunch of free printable resources for anyone to use – if you have any ideas of things they could cover please add them to the comments.

• Flash mob, maybe out side the houses of parliament?
• Meeting in unfriendly cafes
• Meeting in friendly cafes
• Putting up Breastfeeding Welcome Here posters in cafes/libraries/shops
• Giving out ‘thank you for breastfeeding in public‘ cards
• Get a group together and play ‘breastfeeding bingo’ or ‘full term breastfeeding bingo’
• Getting older siblings to draw pictures/paint pictures of mummy nursing little ones to create a display at children’s centres or libraries
• Doing a big picnic with peer supporters present where mums can come a discuss any problems and have leaflets to give out and people can come to learn more
• Booby themed cake sale.
• Art competition?
• Picnics organised at BF groups – everyone brings something and everyone shares.
• Hand and foot canvas momentoes – mums bring their own canvases or pay to buy one on the day, children’s centre or group provides the paint and baby wipes!
• Pram push along the high street giving out ‘breastfeeding welcome’ stickers to shops and cafes.
• Put together a breastfeeding calender with mums at local groups etc
• BF picnics are a great idea, it would give the press something decent to report on
• Doing a stand or something in our local mothercare.
• Hold a stitch, nurse and bitch event, and knit boobs for your local peer group to use as a teaching aid.

Please add your ideas!

Lisa