Hi everyone,

It was great to see so many new and returning faces at the Health Professional Seminars this month. I attended our Sydney and Brisbane seminars and heard great feedback from my team who attended in Melbourne and Perth.

If you missed out on a live seminar, don’t worry! Registrations are still open for our online program which runs from 31 March – 31 May 2022. During this time, you can access recordings of all live seminar presentations and five additional presentations exclusive to the online program. For more information and to register, click here.

Our feature article this month, ‘Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies’ by Karleen Gribble, offers a timely insight into how health professionals can support women in times of crisis. Both overseas in Ukraine and here in the floods in Queensland and New South Wales this support will be vital to women and children.

This month, we also saw the Australian Government launch the National Obesity Strategy 2022–2032. ABA was pleased to see the strategy acknowledge the importance of breastfeeding in preventative health, as well as the value of breastfeeding-friendly workplaces and the need for improved regulation on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes. If you would like more information the strategy is available here.

If you are a professional member, you may have noticed that the free eLearning module for 2022 has been updated. You can now access ‘Structure and function of the breast’ free if you are a professional member. For more information on professional memberships, click here.

We are always keen to hear what you think, if you have any feedback about this newsletter or any of our services, we are more than happy to hear it, send to: info@breastfeeding.asn.au.

Take care,

Naomi Hull

Senior Manager Breastfeeding Information and Research