World Breastfeeding Week

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The World Breastfeeding Week is one of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action organized action week. It is considered the largest joint campaign of all breastfeeding promoting organizations, including UNICEF and the WHO , and is celebrated annually in over 120 countries. In Germany it always takes place in the 40th calendar week.

The World Breastfeeding Week took place for the first time in 1991, on the initiative of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA, translated as “World Alliance for Breastfeeding” or “World Alliance for Active Breastfeeding Promotion”). This is a global initiative for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding worldwide, based on the 1990 “Innocenti Declaration on Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding” and the UNICEF and WHO Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Nutrition .

The World Breastfeeding Week takes place every year under a different motto , which is adopted in modified formulations in German-speaking countries. Since the founding of the round table on breastfeeding promotion in 1999, the German transmission at the spring meeting of this committee has been developed and determined. The mottos of the last few years are:

  • 2019: EMPOWER PARENTS, ENABLE BREASTFEEDING ("STRENGTHENING PARENTS - FOR BREASTFEEDING")
  • 2018: BREASTFEEDING: Foundation of Life ("Breastfeeding - Basis for Life")
  • 2017: Sustaining Breastfeeding - Together! ("Promote breastfeeding - together!")
  • 2016: Breastfeeding: A key to Sustainable Development ("STILLEN Foundation for Sustainable Development")
  • 2015: Breastfeeding and work - Let's make it work! ("Breastfeeding and work - it's possible together!")
  • 2014: Breastfeeding: A Winning Goal - for Life! ("Breastfeeding - a gain for life")
  • 2013: Breastfeeding Support: Close to Mothers (" Support breastfeeding - focus on mothers")
  • 2012: Understanding the Past-Planning the Future ("Breastfeeding - Shaping the future from experience")
  • 2011: Talk to me! Breastfeeding - a 3D Experience ("Breastfeeding - talk about it!")
  • 2010: Breastfeeding - Just 10 Steps! The Baby-Friendly Way ("Just 10 Steps - The Baby-Friendly Way !")
  • 2009: Breastfeeding: A Vital Emergency Response ("Breastfeeding - easy and good")
  • 2008: Mother Support: Going for the Gold ("Promote breastfeeding - spot on")
  • 2007: Breastfeeding: The 1st Hour - Save ONE million babies! ("The beginning counts - breastfeeding from the first hour of life" / "Breastfeeding - the beginning counts")
  • 2006: Code Watch: 25 Years of Protecting Breastfeeding ( ". For the protection of breastfeeding 25 years International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes ")
  • 2005: Breastfeeding and Family Foods: Loving & Healthy ("Healthy nutrition right from the start. Breastfeeding and family table - loving, healthy and fresh" / "Breast or spoon? Breastfeeding: lustful & healthy")
  • 2004: Exclusive Breastfeeding: the Gold Standard Safe, Sound, Sustainable ("Exclusive Breastfeeding - Safe, Healthy, Sustainable")
  • 2003: Breastfeeding in a Globalized World for Peace and Justice ("Breastfeeding in a globalized world")
  • 2002: Breastfeeding: Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies ("Breastfeeding: Healthy Mothers - Healthy Babies" / "Breastfeeding - Healthy Mothers - Healthy Children")
  • 2001: Breastfeeding in the Information Age (" Breastfeeding in the Information Age ")
  • 2000: Breastfeeding It's Your Right! ("Breastfeeding - it is your right!" / "Breastfeeding - a basic right")
  • 1999: Breastfeeding - Education for Life ("Breastfeeding - Learning for Life ")
  • 1998: Breastfeeding - The Best Investment ("Breastfeeding - the best investment")
  • 1997: Breastfeeding - Nature's Way ("Breastfeeding - the best for mother, child and the environment")
  • 1996: Breastfeeding: A Community Responsibility ("Breastfeeding - The whole society is responsible!")
  • 1995: Breastfeeding: Empowering Women ("Breastfeeding - Makes Women Strong")
  • 1994: Protect Breastfeeding: Making the Code Work ("Preserving Breastfeeding: Putting the WHO Code into Action")
  • 1993: Mother-Friendly Workplace Initiative (MFWI)
  • 1992: Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI)

In 2008 a competition was held (called the World Breastfeeding Week Marathon ), in which all groups or individuals who hold at least one event on the occasion of the World Breastfeeding Week can participate. The initiatives are awarded “gold”, “silver” or “bronze” according to the number of organized events or the number of mother-baby couples taking part in breastfeeding activities, separated by state. The highest number of gold medals and the highest total number of medals went to Peru in 2008 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Breastfeeding Week , babynahrung.org
  2. ↑ Round table on breastfeeding promotion ( Memento from June 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ WABA WBW 2008 Marathon Events (Tally) , worldbreastfeedingweek.org