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Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7, 2008

July 31st, 2008 by API Speaks · 9 Comments

Today is the first day of World Breastfeeding Week, and so it is with great pleasure that I kick off API?s World Breastfeeding Week celebration with API Speaks? very first giveaway! Read on for contest entry details!

Why Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week?
I believe that the breastfeeding support I received when I was a new mother from the wonderful women of Peaceful Baby and Cherished Children API, and great online resources like attachmentparenting.org, La Leche League, Kelly Mom, and AskDrSears, was critical to my breastfeeding success.

I started out, like so many new and expecting moms, with very little knowledge of breastfeeding. I was breastfed for about six months, and the few things I?d read indicated that trying to nurse for a year was an admirable goal. So that was my intention?to make it to a year?when Gabriel was born four years ago. Then I met someone who was breastfeeding a toddler, and talked to someone else who had tandem nursed her children for quite some time, and I started to think maybe I should adjust my goal.

I've entered!  Go check it out!