July 28 - Milk For Thought "Latch On America" Tour Bus GRAND RAPIDS
location TBA
45 days - 30+ Cities - 1 Goal
Highlighting how America is taking action to empower breastfeeding mothers.
Come and celebrate breastfeeding, connect with community and share our stories of breastfeeding. We want to hear from anyone who has ever or will ever breastfeed (for any amount of time) as well as anyone who has ever loved or supported someone who has. Your story matters and can help other new and future moms.
August 6 - Grand Rapids BIG LATCH ON
10 - 11AM
Rosa Parks Circle
Breastfeeding mothers of West Michigan UNITE! Together we will try to break the record for most women latched together simultaneously while promoting and supporting breastfeeding. There will be 50 amazing swag bags for the first 50 mothers at the event and two raffle prizes as well provided by businesses in our community who support nursing mothers.
Through these two events a Grand Rapids based list will be created for mothers to find the places where she is "Free To Feed" her baby. The businesses that are on this list will receive information about breastfeeding that they will pass along to their employees to ensure that everyone who works for them is aware of current policy. This will avoid future embarrassments for companies like the Smart Bus who's drive went against policy and tried to kick a mother off for nursing her two week old baby.
These events are more than just breastfeeding events, they are important movements towards understanding and changing our attitudes towards breastfeeding mothers which will help to increase our breastfeeding rates, saving money and lives along the way.
