Tuesday, May 6, 2025
“Feeding Our Future: Inclusive Postpartum Nutrition and Infant Feeding Support”
Join us for Day 3 of the National Postpartum Awareness Week for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), a sacred space where we reclaim nourishment as a form of radical self-love and community care. In this powerful virtual gathering, we will explore the challenges and benefits that BIPOC birthing people experience as they seek to nourish themselves and their babies during the 4th trimester and beyond.
BIPOC parents who choose to breast/chest feed are more likely to experience difficulties, such as access to affordable and nutritious food, lack of workplace accommodations, toxic and pervasive stress, and a scarcity of reliable information, education and support. Additionally, we will discuss the social and cultural barriers that people of color experience, ranging from negative perceptions about feeding their babies in public, to criticism of those who are unable to successfully breastfeed /chestfeed or who choose to formula feed.
The intersections of capitalism, medical racism, and systemic oppression have created food deserts, restricted access to culturally relevant lactation support, and severed communities from their own healing knowledge. It is time to disrupt these cycles and reclaim our right to abundant, affirming postpartum care.This session will uplift holistic, trauma-informed, and culturally rooted approaches to postpartum nourishment and infant feeding. Join us as we explore the vital role of body, mind, spirit, and environment in postpartum healing.