Resources
The Breastfeeding Community of Practice utilizes a variety of tools and resources to support our work. Here are a few examples.
Make Breastfeeding Your Business
Make Breastfeeding Your Business is a provincial initiative that helps businesses, organizations and municipalities adopt practices that protect, promote and support breastfeeding. This initiative is based on an action support kit that was developed to help walk businesses and organizations through the process of being coming more breastfeeding friendly for both employees and clients. Thanks to a grant from the Dartmouth Community Health Board, we were able to present Breastfeeding Friendly businesses with a dry mounted certificate of recognition.
• Make Breastfeeding Your Business: An Action Support Kit
Resources for CoP Volunteers
• Volunteer User's Guide
• Letter to businesses and organizations
• Mini tool kit for businesesses and organizations
• Leaflet: Become Breastfeeding Friendly
• Certificate of Recognition
• Make Breastfeeding Your Business: An Action Support Kit
Resources for CoP Volunteers
• Volunteer User's Guide
• Letter to businesses and organizations
• Mini tool kit for businesesses and organizations
• Leaflet: Become Breastfeeding Friendly
• Certificate of Recognition
Breastfeeding Basics
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10 Great Reasons to Breastfeed your Baby
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Mother to MotherCreating a Breastfeeding Support Line in Your Community
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Breastfeeding Workbook for Community Based Programs
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Loving Care
Loving Care is a series of four books for parents of children from birth to age three developed by Nova Scotia’s Department of Health and Wellness. Loving Care focuses on information that will help young families to protect, promote, or improve their health, and to prevent illness, injury or disability.
Birth to 6 months |
6 to 12 months |
1-3 years |
Parents and Families |
International Code
The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes is an international health policy framework for breastfeeding promotion adopted by the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981.The Code was developed as a global public health strategy and recommends restrictions on the unethical marketing of breastmilk substitutes, such as infant formula, to ensure that mothers are not discouraged from breastfeeding and that substitutes are used safely if needed.The Code also covers ethical considerations and regulations for the marketing of feeding bottles and teats. The Code protects all babies, regardless of how they are fed.
• International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
• International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
Breastfeeding in Public Business Cards
The breastfeeding Community of Practice has developed this business card template that you can print off yourself to use if you are out in public and are met with challenges to help create awareness about breastfeeding in public. This can help educate people in a gentle way without confrontation.
• Business Card Template
• Business Card Template