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Coastal Health District Celebrates World Breastfeeding Week
July 22, 2010 - The Coastal Health District Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) Breastfeeding Program will celebrate World Breastfeeding Week by holding picnics at several locations throughout the District during the first week of August. There will be games, face painting, door prizes and more at each of the events. In addition, all participants in the WIC program who are pregnant or breastfeeding will receive goodie bags.
Coastal Health District activities will include:
Liberty County
12 - 2 p.m., Tuesday, August 3
Liberty County Health Department WIC Clinic, 1183 W. Bultman Ave. Hinesville
Chatham County
12 - 2 p.m., Wednesday, August 4
Thomas Park (next to Bull Street Library), Savannah
Glynn County
11a.m - 1 p.m., Thursday, August 5
Glynn County Health Department, 2747 Fourth Street, Brunswick
The purpose of World Breastfeeding Week is to raise breastfeeding awareness by providing education on the benefits of breastfeeding and help make breastfeeding the normal choice for women. Children who breastfeed receive important nutrients and antibodies that help protect them from a host of diseases. In addition, breastfeeding has been proven to reduce the risk of obesity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), childhood diabetes, and colic.