08/29/2026
Black Breastfeeding Week is here, and the theme is "We All We Got." 🖤
This week celebrates Black mothers, Black babies, and Black communities navigating breastfeeding while facing systemic racism in healthcare, implicit bias from providers and health inequities.
Black maternal mortality is a crisis. Black infant mortality rates are unacceptably high. And Black breastfeeding rates are lower—not because Black mothers
don't want to breastfeed, but because the systems meant to support them are broken.
Black Breastfeeding Week lifts up the resilience, power and expertise of Black breastfeeding parents. It celebrates Black lactation consultants, midwives, doulas, and birth workers. It acknowledges the wisdom passed down through generations. And it demands better: better access to care, better provider training on cultural humility and implicit bias, better representation in lactation and maternal health spaces and better outcomes for Black babies and families ✨✨