Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition

Breastfeeding Challenge: Sat. Oct 11, 11am at Brookfield Zoo. Meet at the Discovery Center at 10:30am.

Join us to celebrate breastfeeding in a fun “competition” where every child “wins” because they are breastfed!!

What: Quintessence Breastfeeding Challenge 2008 - This fun event is a challenge for which geographic area ( province, state or territory) has the most breastfeeding babies, as a percentage of the birthrate, “latched on.” at 11am local time. A great opportunity to get together with other moms!

September 2, 2008 Chicago Tribune Metro section has an article, "Hospitals send formula home with baby while encouraging mother to breast-feed", http://tinyurl.com/65w9y9 and they contacted CABC for information, contacts and quotes. Exciting!

If you have interest in our Media initiative, http://chicagoareabfc.org/mediamonitoring , please let us know.

The Inside Tracks are breastfeeding handouts from the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA).

Topics include: Managing Your Milk Supply, Latching, Jaundice, When to See an LC, What to Expect When you See an LC, Grandparent Support of a Breastfeeding Mother, Returning to Work, Milk Expression and Pumping, Weight Loss and Diets for the Mother, Starting Solids, and Mastitis, Breastfeeding Your Older Baby. See the entire list.

Locate a Lactation Consultant by entering your zip code to find a list of LCs in you area: http://ilca.org

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Help Improve the Health and Well-Being of Infants and Families

Join the Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition (CABC)

Strength in Numbers

Founded in 2003, the CABC is a network of individuals and organizations who believe that infant and family health can be improved by making breastfeeding the norm. We are dedicated to protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding and increasing its acceptance in the greater Chicago area.

You can download the new brochure so you can:

• read it yourself,
• email it to others, or
• print a few to display or handout.

There are two ways to download it.

1. Get the whole brochure. This is both sides of the brochure, good for viewing for yourself, or emailing to others.
2. Get side 1 of the brochure. Then get side 2 of the brochure. Now you can print out a stack of "side 1's", then depending on your printer, you can reinsert (or turn over) your stack and print out "side 2" on each. Now fold and display or handout where you like.

Time Period: Ongoing.
For: all breastfeeding advocates (on our Media Committee or not). We need your help!

Would you like to see more breastfeeding news on television, on the radio, and in the local newspapers? The Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition is working to develop relationships with media contacts, respond to breastfeeding stories, and provide press releases on timely breastfeeding issues.

Planning is beginning for the next conference. There are opportunities for everyone no matter their available time. Be one of the decision-makers who will determine how often future Coalition conferences are held, the best speakers and topics, and much, much more. Please contact the Conference Committee (conference@chicagoareabfc.org) for more information.

Find a Lactation Consultant
http://www.ilca.org/falc.html

Find an Illinois La Leche League group in your area
http://www.lalecheleague.org/Web/Illinois.html

Find local Illinois WIC (Woman, Infants and Children) office
telephone: (217) 782-2166
toll-free in-state: 1-800-323-4769
fax: (217) 785-5247
email: dhshpat@dhs.state.il.us
http://www.dhs.state.il.us

Common Sense Breastfeeding Topics by Diane Wiessinger
http://normalfed.com

Breastfeeding Made Simple by Nancy Mohrbacher (member of CABC) and Kathy Kendall-Tacket
http://breastfeedingMadeSimple.com

Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition (CABC) came together in 2003 for the purpose of promoting breastfeeding in the Chicago area. We are made up of individuals and members from other Chicago area breastfeeding advocacy groups and ILCA affiliates:

Northern Illinois Lactation Consultants Association
Chicago Region Breastfeeding Task Force
North Central Region Breastfeeding Task Force
La Leche League of Illinois
Lactation Resource Alliance
Metropolitan Illinois Lactation Consultants