World Breastfeeding Week

Please visit the http://www.waba.org.my for comprehensive information about worldwide breastfeeding promotion and for details of the theme and goals for 2008 go to http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org

Each year, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action sponsors an international celebration of breastfeeding, emphasizing a particular issue that impacts breastfeeding around the world.

In 2007 the theme was:
Breastfeeding: The 1st Hour - Save ONE million babies

In 2006 the slogan for WBW was::
Code Watch: 25 Years of Protecting Breastfeeding

This year "In conjunction with the Olympics next August,
WBW 2008 calls for greater support for mothers in achieving
the gold standard of infant feeding: breastfeeding exclusively
for six months, and providing appropriate complementary foods
with continued breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond."