Nutrition: Breastfeeding Resources

• National Maternal Health Hotline—Free, confidential, support available 24/7 with options to connect via text, call, or chat.
• National Women's Health and Breastfeeding Helpline—Talk with a health information specialist in English or Spanish between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, at 1-800-994-9662.
• Making the decision to breastfeed—Explore feeding options and choose an approach that is right for your family
• Breastfeeding benefits both babies and mothers—Recommendations and guidance from the Office of Women's Health.
• Returning to work and breastfeeding—Get advice to prepare to return to your workplace while providing breast milk for your baby.
• Returning to school and breastfeeding—Get advice to prepare to return to school while providing breastmilk for your baby.
• Understanding Protections for Pregnant and Lactating Workers—Understand workplace rights and protections for pregnant and nursing workers.
• Mother’s Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes—Learn about donating or receiving screened donor human milk for eligible infants.

• The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) is a global organization of physicians and healthcare providers dedicated to lactation success. The ABM publishes evidence-based clinical protocols, position statements, and expert educational materials for use in standards of care in lactation.
• The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is an authority on breastfeeding guidelines, policies, and educational resources featuring expert recommendations on infant nutrition and lactation support.
• The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) provides access to data, breastfeeding guidance, and educational materials, including toolkits and fact sheets.
• The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding outlines actionable steps for communities, employers, hospitals and healthcare providers to ensure every person who wishes to breastfeed has the support to do so successfully.
• The U.S. Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) is a national coalition of more than 130 organizations that work collaboratively to drive efforts for policy and practice of breastfeeding support across the United States. The coalition serves as a key organizer for work happening around lactation across the country.
• The Wisconsin Association of Lactation Consultants offers lactation continuing education opportunities and supports networking between lactation consultants across the state.
• Mother’s Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes serves as a regional resource for donor human milk, supporting hospitals, clinics, and eligible infants.

• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protections for employees to pump breast milk at work.
• The Business Case for Breastfeeding offers tools to help employers provide lactation support for employees and highlights how such support contributes to business success.
• Supporting Nursing Moms at Work provides a wealth of resources for employers and employees about workplace nursing.
• Workplace Lactation Accommodations: Employer Toolkit includes helpful resources to establish lactation spaces, a workplace policy template, and frequently asked questions.
• Guidelines for faculty explain how to support pregnant and parenting students.
• Responsibilities of academic administrators outline resources to fulfill requirements of Title IX.

• August 2026: National Breastfeeding Month (NBM)
  RISE: Resilience, Interdependence, Self-Determination, Empowerment. This year's theme was crafted to capture the heart and strength of the First Food field. Each word in the acronym was chosen to highlight the network's strengths advocating for the policy, systems, and environmental changes necessary to create a landscape of breastfeeding support for every family.
• August 1-7, 2026: World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) Breastfeeding for a Sustainable Start in Life: Strengthen What Works World Breastfeeding Week was created in 1992 by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy. Since 2016, WBW has been aligned with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2018, a World Health Assembly resolution endorsed WBW as an important breastfeeding promotion strategy.
• August 1-7, 2026: National WIC Breastfeeding Week
  Each year in the first week of August, National WIC Breastfeeding Week is hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and celebrated in conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week to promote and support breastfeeding as the best source of nutrition for a baby.
• August 8-14, 2026: Indigenous Milk Medicine Week
  The Wisconsin-specific theme "Indigenous Milk Medicine: A Decade of Support." honors breastfeeding as a sacred, cultural, and political act as part of a ceremony, a knowledge system, and a practice of sovereignty.
• August 15-21, 2026: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week
  Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week's mission is to decrease inequities and normalize chest and/or breastfeeding by improving education and support practices.
• August 22-24, 2026: Military Lactation Celebration
  As part of National Breastfeeding Month, Global Military Lactation Community hosts a three-day lactation celebration for U.S. military families worldwide.
• August 25-31, 2026: Black Breastfeeding Week
  The 2026 theme "We All We Got: 15 Years of Community, Care and Collective Power." highlights the community care, collective wisdom, and the people who continue to be present and make a difference for Black families.
• September 1-7, 2026: Workplace Lactation Week
  The observance celebrates the contributions of nursing mothers and parents in the workplace and aligns with Labor Day, highlighting the vital role working and pumping parents play in the workforce. The theme "Work. Pump. Advance. Empowering the modern parents." provides information, resources and best practices to promote a supportive and lactation-friendly work environment for everyone.
• September 8-14, 2026: Semana de La Lactancia Latina
  The observance celebrates the contributions of nursing mothers and parents in the workplace and aligns with Labor Day, highlighting the vital role working and pumping parents play in the workforce.
• September 16-22, 2026: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Breastfeeding Week
  The purpose of this initiative is to provide the nation's marginalized and underrepresented Deaf community with accessible breastfeeding education, support, and community, because language and breastfeeding access matters from birth!

Ceremonial proclamations raise awareness while recognizing the work being done by groups across the state. Proclamations will be updated as they are issued.

• National Breastfeeding Month 2026 Governor's Proclamation (PDF)
• Indigenous Milk Medicine Week, 2026 Governor's Proclamation (PDF)
• Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week, 2025 Governor's Proclamation (PDF) | Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week accessible version (PDF)
• Black Breastfeeding Week, 2025 Governor's Proclamation (PDF) | Black Breastfeeding Week, accessible version (PDF)
• Semana de la Lactancia Latina (Latina Breastfeeding Week), 2025 Governor's Proclamation (PDF) | Semana de la Lactancia, Spanish version (PDF) | Semana de la Lactancia, accessible version (PFF).