What a wonderful thing to breastfeed in nature,
to breastfeed in public,
and to breastfeed among other breastfeeding mothers.
All at the same time!
This was the Breastfeeding Challenge 2009 in my town.
I think The Quintessence Foundation should have a category for prettiest location because I’m pretty sure our outdoor courtyard next to the Farmer’s Market would have won.
We had 26 moms and 27 nurslings.
And our La Leche League group raised almost $200 with a raffle and silent auction.
It was a wonderful day.
Did you take part in this year’s Challenge? What kind of location was it held at? How many moms and babes took part? I’d love to hear some stories from other places.
P.S. I hate that none of these photos actually show anyone breastfeeding, but in my defense, I think my toddler nursed longer than anyone that day AND my camera fell and broke right after these ones were taken. It has since been fixed. Phew.
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I’m long past breastfeeding, but it does need to be more acceptable to do in public. Especially when you breastfeed beyond 6 mos.
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Thanks for contributing to breastfeeding awareness!
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I’ll agree with prettiest location! And glad your camera’s back in business. We’ve had various technology-related mishaps over this way, too.
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There was a Challenge in my town, but I wasn’t able to participate this particular weekend! I was disappointed.
But yours was MUCH larger! (Ours was only six moms, but still!)
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I’ve never heard of this challenge, but then again it’s been awhile since I’ve breastfed and belonged to La Leche. This is an excellent idea and I hope it gets more recognition.
Glad your camera is fixed.
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What a great idea! I have not heard of it either but I would def. participate with my next!
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It looks pretty! Ours (Los Angeles, CA) was held in a park near a lake. The numbers were approx 44 moms and 46 nursing babies/toddlers(I don’t have the official count). One mom was tandem nursing her twin 3-year-old boys! I wrote a blog post about it and yours inspired me so I just added some pictures just now
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All the way here in Aruba, we too celebrated the 2009 Quintessence Breastfeeding Challenge. This was a project taken on for the first time by our only Non profit breastfeeding organization, Pro Lechi Mama Aruba! We had a good turn out considering it was planned very last minute. We had a total of 24 moms and 26 babies! It was held by Paseo Herencia ( a mall), on the terrace of a restaurant, Moby Dick’s. We received generous donations for numerous breastfeeding related items, that included, a single electric breast pump from Avent. Two ‘My Brest Friend’ nursing pillows, one locally manufactured high quality nursing cover, packs of Pamper Diapers for every single mother. A basket with supplies from Huggies, A ring sling, juice, and t-shirts from bearing the organization’s name and slogan for each and every baby. We were sponsored over 200 shirts! Healthy Sandwiches were sponsored, and a Dino Jump for older children was also made available. It was a note worthy affair with tremendous feedback and support received from breastfeeding moms and the community! Our youngest baby participant was only 2 days old! Our oldest was about 3. We fully intend on having this breastfeeding challenge every single year from now on!
For pictures visit Pro Lechi Mama Aruba’s Facebook!
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I participated in the one in Victoria! There were 148 babies latched on at once! It was great!! I was in Victoria to do the Run for the Cure with my extended family, so it was quite the boobie weekend! It was nice to be with so many women breastfeeding all at once. The oldest nursing child was 4 and the youngest was 13 days. Five women had twin nurslings, and several were tandem nursing (including me but I didn’t count as more than one for the official count because my older son gets pumped breastmilk instead of actually nursing).
The only things I didn’t like were the fact that it was at the movie theatre, so there were no random public walking by who were exposed to the challenge or nursing in public, and there were fewer women there this year than last year apparently. Like, one hundred fewer.
Last year’s winning city was a city in the Phillipines, which had over 3,000 women latched on at once!!! Wowza!!
All I have to say is, GO BOOBIES! GO MILK! YEAH!!!
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Oh yay!! We had 38 mamas and 39 nursers!!
So exciting!
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@Shan – Thanks for your support!
@Melissa – Welcome! And thanks for commenting!
@Christina – I’m going to go take a look at your post right now. Thanks for leaving the link!
@Wendy – Wow! That sounds fantastic. You have so much to be proud of! Especially considering it was last minute!? Wow! What a great day!
@Melissa – Did you see that Victoria won the Challenge? Yay for my university town!
our office participated in the activity – but we only had 4 moms! there was an incoming typhoon and a lot the moms were scared and didn’t want to take their babies out. there were also several activities in various parts of the metro.. that said, October has been a very hectic month (and i thought August was already busy)!!
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I was really proud to be a part of this in my city!! (Grand Rapids, MI.)
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