New Zealand Breastfeeding Alliance - NZBA

11/11/2025

Recent policy changes have led to a dramatic drop in NZ’s global ranking for to***co interference protection.

29/10/2025

😍Such a great day of learning and connection!

📢Shout out to our amazing group of BFHI Coordinators who braved the weather to gather in Ōtautahi.

🙏Thank-you for all you do to protect, support and promote breastfeeding!

28/10/2025

Please see November timetable for Janm Aur Parvarish.

Feel free to share, free for all pregnant Indian women.

To enrol women need to email teritoora@middlemore.co.nz with their full name, NHI number, phone number, due date and where they live in NZ.

They will be sent a welcoming email including links to join.
They will then continue to receive monthly updated timetables.

28/10/2025

“Withholding skin-to-skin contact would now be considered unethical, as there is enough evidence to show that the practice improves newborn health and survival.”

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 By Mia Parkinson Image Immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers offers a better start in life, improving a number of key health metrics, according to a newly-updated Cochrane review.The review found that babies who have skin-to-skin contact with t...

21/10/2025

This week is Faahi Tapu he Vagahau Niue – Niuean Language Week (19 – 25 October 2025).

This years’ theme is: 'Fakatapunu, Ofania, mo e Fakaaoga e Vagahau Niue! - Elevate, Cherish, and use Vagahau Niue!'.

For more information about the celebration of Niuean Language Week in Aotearoa New Zealand, please visit the Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ website:

Learn more about Niue Language Week 2023

16/10/2025

News time!

Cook Islands leads the way! Following the successful Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) audit of Te Marae Ora (TMO) maternity services in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Jules Wilke, NZBA Executive Officer, attended the Te Marae Ora Annual Health Conference – The First 1000 Days. On day one, Jules ...

15/10/2025

Such a great gift to our community and if you want to give a little, the link is in the comments 👇

https://www.facebook.com/reel/4295731973990258

08/10/2025

Thanks to our member organisation, Te Rito Ora for this reminder:
When complications arise, the answer is not always more. More pumping, more gadgets, more schedules often bring more complications. Sometimes the way forward is less: less intervention, less pressure, less complication. Stripping it back to basics reminds us that breastfeeding was designed to be simple: milk moving when baby needs it, in rhythm with their physiology.

07/10/2025

Recently released video from WHO.

https://www.who.int/multi-media/details/babies-before-bottom-lines-formula-milk-advertising-violates-international-agreements #

Babies before bottom lines: formula milk advertising violates international agreements 25 June 2025  | video WHO Team Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health & Ageing (MCA), Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS)

07/10/2025

From the amazing team at Te Rito Ora:
Please see October timetable, feel free to share, free for all pregnant Indian women.

To enrol we are encouraging them to email teritoora@middlemore.co.nz with their full name, NHI number, phone number, due date and where they live in NZ.

We will then send them an email welcoming them, this will include links to join.

24/09/2025

Professor Deborah O'Connor is currently a visiting professor at the University of Otago.

This is an amazing opportunity to hear from Deborah who is considered the Canadian expert on donor milk.