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National WIC Breastfeeding Week 2016

August 01, 2016 Sarah Widor, Director, Supplemental Food Programs Division, Food and Nutrition Service

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated around the world each year during the first week of August to promote breastfeeding and highlight its importance to the health of mothers and babies. This year’s theme is “Breastfeeding: A Key to Sustainable Development.” USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition...

Food and Nutrition

USDA Promotes Breastfeeding

September 23, 2010 Audrey Rowe, USDA Deputy Administrator of Special Nutrition Programs

I recently had the pleasure to spend a little time with some expecting and nursing mothers in Martinsburg, West Virginia. It was the first meeting of a newly formed community breastfeeding support group planned to coincide with World Breastfeeding Week. My friend Mitch Greenbaum, Director of...

Food and Nutrition
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