Beebe Healthcare, Nemours Children’s Health Bring Back World Breastfeeding Week Event to Lewes Library
Beebe Healthcare and Nemours Children’s Health are partnering to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week with a free family-friendly event at the Lewes Library from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, July 26.
“Powered by Breast Milk” will be an open-house style event for families to access numerous breastfeeding and breast milk feeding resources, alongside a variety of kid activities and raffle prizes. There will be nearly 20 vendors and stations for parents and children.
Representatives from Delaware State Police will provide education around car seat safety, as well as Katy Jonas from Feelings Rock and Andrea Kennedy from the Yoga Studio. Feelings Rock is a music and movement-based class that is designed to help preschoolers and their families navigate social emotional development. Kennedy will offer yoga demonstrations that focus on the neck and back for breastfeeding mothers.
Registration is requested but not required.
Raffle items will include a pack-n-play, breast pumps, boppys, baby carriers, a gift basket from Beebe Women’s and Children’s Services, a Nest Spa gift card, and an Azya Salon gift basket which includes hair products and a gift card for a customizable service.
Nemours Children’s Health serves as the pediatric partner at Beebe’s Margaret H. Rollins Lewes Campus, providing world-class pediatric care to children in the emergency department and newborn babies in our Women’s and Children’s unit alongside Beebe’s neonatal specialists. The partnership ensures children receive the highest level of care right in their community.
Beebe is a Baby-Friendly designated hospital recognized for its educational efforts and practices surrounding infant feeding and mother-and-infant bonding.
Both Beebe and Nemours Children’s are Safe Sleep certified healthcare systems committed to providing the optimal level of care for safe sleep practices. Both organizations offer board-certified lactation consultants to assist with newborn feeding, breastfeeding classes, support groups, and interpreter services.