Model Call for Family Photo Shoot

SDBFC and SDBFC Foundation are hosting a professional photo shoot in a few weeks and are looking for 10 parents/babies of varying ages to participate.  The photographer will be taking breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding photos, so you are still welcome to apply even if you are not nursing at this time.  

These photos will be used by the San Diego Breastfeeding Center and the San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation (our nonprofit) on our website, social media, and marketing materials.  Our goal is to show the diversity of families in our community.   As a 'thank you' for participating, each family will receive 5 digital images that your can print on your own.

If you are interested, here are the details:

Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Time and Location:

12:30-1:30p Southeast Clinic with Chardá (704 Euclid Ave, San Diego, 92114)

2p-3p SD Community Birth Center with Jarrah Foster (2801 Fourth Ave, San Diego, 92103)

4p-6p San Diego Breastfeeding Center with SDBFC Staff (8325 University Ave. La Mesa, 91942)

Requirements: Each family must sign a photo release form prior to the photo shoot, giving SDBFC and SDBFC Foundation permission to use any of the photos on our websites, social media, and marketing materials.

If interested, please send an email to info@sdbfc.com by May 16, 2023. Include:

• Your name

• Phone number

• Age of your baby

• A photo of you, your partner (if he/she would like to be photographed, as well), and your baby.  This can totally be a photo from your phone....doesn't have to be professional!.  

• Indicate while clinic photo shoot you would like to attend

• Indicate whether you are comfortable being photographed while breastfeeding.  Not all photos will be of breastfeeding families, so it is still possible to participate even if you have already weaned or your baby is not breastfeeding at this time :-) 

Once we know who is interested, we will choose 10 families based on infant's age.  We are hoping for a nice variety of age groups! We will be contacting chosen participants by May 19, 2023.

Supply Drive for Afghan Refugees

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As a business that focuses on improving the lives of those in our community, we are putting our chest/breastfeeding ‘hats’ aside to bring awareness to a community that desperately needs our help and resources.  San Diego, specifically El Cajon, is expecting 5000 Afghan refugees to arrive in the next few months, with little notice and few supplies.  The San Diego Breastfeeding Center has partnered with Welcome Home to host a Supply Drive to collect items that these families need to start their new lives in San Diego.  

Details

What: Supply Drive for Afghan Refugees

Where: San Diego Breastfeeding Center (8325 University Ave.  La Mesa, CA 91942)

When: Saturday, September 25, 2021 from 11am-1pm

Just drive up in front of the center or park on the street and our volunteers will help unload the items from your car.  Please wear a mask to protect yourself and our volunteers.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Robin Kaplan at robinkaplan@sdbfc.com

For more information about our partnering organization and the incredible work they do in our community, please visit their website:

Welcome Home

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Thank you, in advance, for your supply donations and for supporting our newest community members.

Warmly,

The San Diego Breastfeeding Center Family

Nice Try, Covid…. But You Can’t Stop Us From Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week

The annual World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7th) is usually filled with parties, gatherings, giveaways, and more.  It is a week to celebrate all of your breastfeeding, chest feeding, and pumping accomplishments with families around the world.  Many of you may have attended our Big Latch On event or participated in our Ultimate World Breastfeeding Week giveaway in the past. For some of you, this may be the first time you have breast/chestfed or pumped for a child.  

And while 2020 has been a complete physical and emotional circus (PG-version of what we really want to say), we are so incredibly grateful to still be here, providing our breastfeeding expertise and emotional support to all of you.  So, if Covid can’t shut down the San Diego Breastfeeding Center, then it sure can’t stop us from celebrating World Breastfeeding Week!

So, who’s ready to celebrate with us??????

We have several online events scheduled for August 1-7th, with more being added (so make sure you are following us on Instagram and Facebook because you will not want to miss out!)  Here is a list of what we have planned so far!

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The Big Virtual Latch On

August 1, 2020; 10-10:45a | Zoom

2020 has proved to make in-person gatherings difficult (to say the least!), so our yearly Big Latch On event has moved online! If you have never attended a Big Latch On event, this is where we bring together as many breast/chestfeeding parents together to latch on their babies all at the same time to set a world record!

This is an event you won’t want to miss this year, as hopefully this will be the only time in our lifetime where we will try to set a world record for the MOST latched on kiddos at the same time during a pandemic! (Well, that’s something I never thought I would write in a million years!)

There will be a few giveaways (like some awesome Kindred Bravely bras/tanks and Tula baby carriers!), laughter, camaraderie, and celebration as we bring together our community of nursing families.  And let’s face it…. we all need something fun to celebrate right now!

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Share Your Stories!

Throughout World Breastfeeding Month (all of August 2020)

To celebrate and acknowledge all the ways we feed; breastfeed/chestfeed/pump/bottle, AND to encourage other families, we would love to feature YOUR story. We will be posting the stories on our blog and featuring them on our social media. Peer to peer support is so crucial, and right now (due to Covid) this may be missing for some of you. So let's lift each other up and let other parents know that they are not alone! With this project we also hope to amplify the voices of communities who are underrepresented in breastfeeding/chestfeeding/lactation and who are failed to be properly supported by the health care system and community.

Stories should be no longer than 1 page, and if you'd like to share a photo that we can include that would be amazing! Here is a link to some breastfeeding memoirs we have collected for our website in the past.

If you are interested in sharing your experience with feeding your child, please email robinkaplan@sdbfc.com

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Instagram Giveaways!

August 1-7, 2020

We absolutely love giveaways because they allow us to collaborate with amazing and inventive companies/products and share with our SDBFC families and social media community!  This year, instead of having ONE large World Breastfeeding Week giveaway with a bunch of products, we will be launching a monthly giveaway event (name TBD!) so that you can really get to know our favorite companies, their products that make your life easier, and their communities.  We will launch our monthly giveaway event with Teat and Cosset and Baby Tula, both outstanding companies we have collaborated with many times in the past.  Start following them now to learn more about them and stay tuned for the giveaways and our IG stories Q&A takeover!

And, you never know when another fun event will be planned, so stay tuned and happy feeding!

Countdown to Baby Event: a resource luncheon for expectant and new parents

Pregnant?  Adopting? Navigating the 4th trimester?

Looking for some professionals and friends to round out your circle of support during the expectant and postpartum periods?

At SDBFC, our mission is to provide compassionate care and help families find their circle of support.  We want all families to feel like we are a safe place to turn to in times of need (and joy!) and a resource of professionals to lean on as they navigate the prenatal and postpartum period.

We also have the honor of working with passionate, local professionals who round out this circle of support, by providing education and medical/emotional/physical support during the prenatal/postpartum period.

Please join us for a FREE event that will encompass many of the different local professional resources you need to best prepare for your new little one and navigate the 4th trimester.  We know that new parenthood can feel incredibly isolating, so we want to share our collective knowledge and professional expertise so that your new family feels supported and surrounded by your community.

Our vendors will include midwives, doulas, prenatal/postpartum classes, prenatal/postpartum yoga, pelvic floor therapist, baby photographers, babywearing experts and more! Meet them, ask them questions, and get their contact information! 

This is also a great time to meet your new group of friends who are going through familiar experiences! 

We will have giveaways and free tacos! (Did you say tacos??? What could be better?) This is definitely worth dropping by on a Sunday morning!

We hope to see you there! 

The Scoop

Who: Pregnant parents, adopting parents, parents of babies being born by surrogate, parents navigating the 4th trimester

What: Vendors and speakers who specialize in services and products preparing for your baby and during 4th trimester

When: Sunday, March 29, 11am-1pm

Where: SDBFC, 8325 University Ave, La Mesa, CA 91942

Speakers

11:20a - Robin Naughton - Ergonomics - taking care of YOUR body during pregnancy and postpartum

11:40a - Nikki Helms - Nighttime Routines and Why They're Important

12:20p - Dr. Cassidy Freitas - Preparing Your Partnership for Postpartum

12:40p - Robin Kaplan - Assembling your Breastfeeding Circle of Support

RSVP are a must so that we don’t run out of tacos!