Breastfeeding is the best food for your baby.  Breastfeeding provides a child with nutritional, emotional, immunological, anti-allergenic, and developmental benefits for as long as a child is breastfed, and has lasting effects even into adulthood.  Breastfeeding also benefits our community. Healthier babies mean savings in local health care dollars. 

The Canadian Paediatric Society recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life with appropriate introduction of complementary foods and continued breastfeeding to 2 years and beyond.  More and more women are breastfeeding for longer periods of time and community acceptance is crucial to their success!  Breastfeeding is a community responsibility.