World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is being celebrated in Charlotte with two exciting public events. Latch-On and Smile is a free event to be held at Freedom Park’s Mahlon Adams Pavilion at 10:00 am on Friday, August 8th. This event is designed to show the happy, healthy and diverse face of breastfeeding and to raise awareness of local breastfeeding-support resources. Mothers from all walks of life will gather with their nurslings and breastfeed together for one minute. WIC is providing baby tees to the first 25 infants.
Carolina Medical Center (CMC) Main and CMC Pineville are sponsoring a free Fashion Show and Baby Fair on Saturday, August 9th from 1:00 – 4:30 PM at Myers Park Baptist Church Heaton Hall, 1931 Selwyn Avenue. The fashion show will feature maternity, nursing and children’s clothes, as well as accessories, by Belly Elan, Motherwear and Peek A Boo Couture. It will include children’s activities, refreshments, silent auction and vendors. This event is presented by La Leche League of Charlotte, BELLAS, and Mocha Moms. All are welcome.
World Breastfeeding Week is an annual global effort to raise awareness for breastfeeding. It celebrates the signing of the Innocenti Declaration, produced and adopted in 1990 by participants at the WHO/UNICEF meeting on “Breastfeeding in the 1990s: A Global Initiative on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding.”
Please plan to attend both events and invite your friends!
