Breastfeeding All Around The Bay: A Children's Board Book
$11.99
Written and illustrated by Lactation Consultant, Jasmine Marquez, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay helps normalize breastfeeding outside of the home at familiar beloved locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.This fun lighthearted board book is one you'll want to read again and again with your own little nursling (or to give to an expecting or new mama to show your support).
Why this book is needed:
In the many board and picture books I have for my daughter, not one shows a baby being breastfed. Few have Black characters, and none show interracial families, so I wrote and illustrated a book that has all of the above.
Women should feel comfortable and supported to breastfeed their baby out in public. The need for children’s books, TV shows, and movies to start showing babies breastfeeding is real. Infant feeding in media is almost always portrayed with a bottle. It’s difficult to normalize something when it’s not seen anywhere.
As a lactation consultant, I often hear that moms haven’t seen or been around breastfeeding women until they themselves got pregnant and started seeking out videos in preparation. How wonderful would it be for children to be exposed to this normal biological process not only directly from breastfeeding, but also indirectly in our books, TV shows, and movies?
From the perspective of a very hungry newborn, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay:
• Normalizes breastfeeding in public, a right every women has with or without a breastfeeding cover
• Features a Black women breastfeeding. Rates for initiation and duration of breastfeeding for Black women in the United States are the lowest comparatively to other races, but there are nationwide movements happening to help decrease this health disparity.
• Highlights an interracial couple, something that is also rarely seen and reflects the my family. I wanted my daughter to grow up reading stories that have families that look like ours.
All packaged in a sturdy board book to withstand infant slobber and the enthusiasm in which toddlers turn pages.
Thank you for supporting more cultural inclusion in children's literature and normalizing breastfeeding!
Jasmine Marquez, MPH, IBCLC
Why this book is needed:
In the many board and picture books I have for my daughter, not one shows a baby being breastfed. Few have Black characters, and none show interracial families, so I wrote and illustrated a book that has all of the above.
Women should feel comfortable and supported to breastfeed their baby out in public. The need for children’s books, TV shows, and movies to start showing babies breastfeeding is real. Infant feeding in media is almost always portrayed with a bottle. It’s difficult to normalize something when it’s not seen anywhere.
As a lactation consultant, I often hear that moms haven’t seen or been around breastfeeding women until they themselves got pregnant and started seeking out videos in preparation. How wonderful would it be for children to be exposed to this normal biological process not only directly from breastfeeding, but also indirectly in our books, TV shows, and movies?
From the perspective of a very hungry newborn, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay:
• Normalizes breastfeeding in public, a right every women has with or without a breastfeeding cover
• Features a Black women breastfeeding. Rates for initiation and duration of breastfeeding for Black women in the United States are the lowest comparatively to other races, but there are nationwide movements happening to help decrease this health disparity.
• Highlights an interracial couple, something that is also rarely seen and reflects the my family. I wanted my daughter to grow up reading stories that have families that look like ours.
All packaged in a sturdy board book to withstand infant slobber and the enthusiasm in which toddlers turn pages.
Thank you for supporting more cultural inclusion in children's literature and normalizing breastfeeding!
Jasmine Marquez, MPH, IBCLC
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Written and illustrated by Lactation Consultant, Jasmine Marquez, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay helps normalize breastfeeding outside of the home at familiar beloved locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.This fun lighthearted board book is one you'll want to read again and again with your own little nursling (or to give to an expecting or new mama to show your support).
Why this book is needed:
In the many board and picture books I have for my daughter, not one shows a baby being breastfed. Few have Black characters, and none show interracial families, so I wrote and illustrated a book that has all of the above.
Women should feel comfortable and supported to breastfeed their baby out in public. The need for children’s books, TV shows, and movies to start showing babies breastfeeding is real. Infant feeding in media is almost always portrayed with a bottle. It’s difficult to normalize something when it’s not seen anywhere.
As a lactation consultant, I often hear that moms haven’t seen or been around breastfeeding women until they themselves got pregnant and started seeking out videos in preparation. How wonderful would it be for children to be exposed to this normal biological process not only directly from breastfeeding, but also indirectly in our books, TV shows, and movies?
From the perspective of a very hungry newborn, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay:
• Normalizes breastfeeding in public, a right every women has with or without a breastfeeding cover
• Features a Black women breastfeeding. Rates for initiation and duration of breastfeeding for Black women in the United States are the lowest comparatively to other races, but there are nationwide movements happening to help decrease this health disparity.
• Highlights an interracial couple, something that is also rarely seen and reflects the my family. I wanted my daughter to grow up reading stories that have families that look like ours.
All packaged in a sturdy board book to withstand infant slobber and the enthusiasm in which toddlers turn pages.
Thank you for supporting more cultural inclusion in children's literature and normalizing breastfeeding!
Jasmine Marquez, MPH, IBCLC
Why this book is needed:
In the many board and picture books I have for my daughter, not one shows a baby being breastfed. Few have Black characters, and none show interracial families, so I wrote and illustrated a book that has all of the above.
Women should feel comfortable and supported to breastfeed their baby out in public. The need for children’s books, TV shows, and movies to start showing babies breastfeeding is real. Infant feeding in media is almost always portrayed with a bottle. It’s difficult to normalize something when it’s not seen anywhere.
As a lactation consultant, I often hear that moms haven’t seen or been around breastfeeding women until they themselves got pregnant and started seeking out videos in preparation. How wonderful would it be for children to be exposed to this normal biological process not only directly from breastfeeding, but also indirectly in our books, TV shows, and movies?
From the perspective of a very hungry newborn, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay:
• Normalizes breastfeeding in public, a right every women has with or without a breastfeeding cover
• Features a Black women breastfeeding. Rates for initiation and duration of breastfeeding for Black women in the United States are the lowest comparatively to other races, but there are nationwide movements happening to help decrease this health disparity.
• Highlights an interracial couple, something that is also rarely seen and reflects the my family. I wanted my daughter to grow up reading stories that have families that look like ours.
All packaged in a sturdy board book to withstand infant slobber and the enthusiasm in which toddlers turn pages.
Thank you for supporting more cultural inclusion in children's literature and normalizing breastfeeding!
Jasmine Marquez, MPH, IBCLC
Written and illustrated by Lactation Consultant, Jasmine Marquez, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay helps normalize breastfeeding outside of the home at familiar beloved locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.This fun lighthearted board book is one you'll want to read again and again with your own little nursling (or to give to an expecting or new mama to show your support).
Why this book is needed:
In the many board and picture books I have for my daughter, not one shows a baby being breastfed. Few have Black characters, and none show interracial families, so I wrote and illustrated a book that has all of the above.
Women should feel comfortable and supported to breastfeed their baby out in public. The need for children’s books, TV shows, and movies to start showing babies breastfeeding is real. Infant feeding in media is almost always portrayed with a bottle. It’s difficult to normalize something when it’s not seen anywhere.
As a lactation consultant, I often hear that moms haven’t seen or been around breastfeeding women until they themselves got pregnant and started seeking out videos in preparation. How wonderful would it be for children to be exposed to this normal biological process not only directly from breastfeeding, but also indirectly in our books, TV shows, and movies?
From the perspective of a very hungry newborn, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay:
• Normalizes breastfeeding in public, a right every women has with or without a breastfeeding cover
• Features a Black women breastfeeding. Rates for initiation and duration of breastfeeding for Black women in the United States are the lowest comparatively to other races, but there are nationwide movements happening to help decrease this health disparity.
• Highlights an interracial couple, something that is also rarely seen and reflects the my family. I wanted my daughter to grow up reading stories that have families that look like ours.
All packaged in a sturdy board book to withstand infant slobber and the enthusiasm in which toddlers turn pages.
Thank you for supporting more cultural inclusion in children's literature and normalizing breastfeeding!
Jasmine Marquez, MPH, IBCLC
Why this book is needed:
In the many board and picture books I have for my daughter, not one shows a baby being breastfed. Few have Black characters, and none show interracial families, so I wrote and illustrated a book that has all of the above.
Women should feel comfortable and supported to breastfeed their baby out in public. The need for children’s books, TV shows, and movies to start showing babies breastfeeding is real. Infant feeding in media is almost always portrayed with a bottle. It’s difficult to normalize something when it’s not seen anywhere.
As a lactation consultant, I often hear that moms haven’t seen or been around breastfeeding women until they themselves got pregnant and started seeking out videos in preparation. How wonderful would it be for children to be exposed to this normal biological process not only directly from breastfeeding, but also indirectly in our books, TV shows, and movies?
From the perspective of a very hungry newborn, Breastfeeding All Around The Bay:
• Normalizes breastfeeding in public, a right every women has with or without a breastfeeding cover
• Features a Black women breastfeeding. Rates for initiation and duration of breastfeeding for Black women in the United States are the lowest comparatively to other races, but there are nationwide movements happening to help decrease this health disparity.
• Highlights an interracial couple, something that is also rarely seen and reflects the my family. I wanted my daughter to grow up reading stories that have families that look like ours.
All packaged in a sturdy board book to withstand infant slobber and the enthusiasm in which toddlers turn pages.
Thank you for supporting more cultural inclusion in children's literature and normalizing breastfeeding!
Jasmine Marquez, MPH, IBCLC