Congratulations to New BFCCD Awardees!

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Join us in congratulating this most recent cohort of BFCCD awardees!

More about the North Carolina Breastfeeding-Friendly Child Care Designation Program from the Nutrition Services Branch:

The North Carolina Breastfeeding-Friendly Child Care Designation (NC BFCCD) program has been made possible through a grant from Kids Eat Smart Move More. The program recognizes child care facilities that have taken steps to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding. A rating system has been developed that awards child care facilities with a gold-starred building block for every two steps achieved in the Ten Steps to Breastfeeding-Friendly Child Care. These Ten Steps were adopted from the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill and the North Carolina Maternity Center Breastfeeding-Friendly Designation.

10 Steps

  1. Make a commitment to the importance of breastfeeding, especially exclusive breastfeeding, and share this commitment with fellow staff.
  2. Train all staff in the skills to support and promote optimal infant and young child feeding.
  3. Inform women and families about the importance of breastfeeding.
  4. Provide learning and play opportunities that normalize breastfeeding for children.
  5. Ensure that all families we serve are able to properly store and label milk for child care facility use.
  6. Provide a breastfeeding-friendly environment.
  7. Support breastfeeding employees.
  8. Ensure that each infant has a feeding plan that supports best feeding practices.
  9. Contact and coordinate with local skilled breastfeeding support and actively refer.
  10. Continue updates and learning about the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding

Benefits

By participating in this voluntary program your child care can benefit:

  • Babies – Breastfed babies have less risk of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, asthma, ear infections, diarrhea, vomiting, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
  • Mothers – Breastfeeding lowers a mom’s risk of breast and ovarian cancer, enhances the bond with her baby, and speeds recovery from childbirth.
  • Child care – Being breastfeeding friendly may lead to better daily attendance, healthier children,  higher parent satisfaction, and more public recognition.
  • Everyone – Breastfeeding-friendly child care helps everyone by improving breastfeeding rates, leading to healthier people in North Carolina.

Application

The deadline for the next application review is October 15, 2016.

The application for the Breastfeeding-Friendly Child Care Designation is a single document that includes background about the program, application instructions, and the application itself. We welcome your questions, comments and suggestions about the program. Please email or call us at 919.707.5800.

 

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