Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Breastfeeding Coalition

08/28/2025

08/26/2025

08/26/2025

Lydia O. Boyd congratulations so very well deserving❣️

08/22/2025

👯‍♀️ Bestie, guess what? Liberation Place has O-Pill (a progesterone-only birth control pill) and it’s totally FREE. We have one month or three month supplies available for you!

It’s breastfeeding-friendly 💕, no doctor’s visit or prescription required. No hoops to jump through, no paperwork, no judgment.

Just show up and grab what you need — because you deserve options, control, and a little more peace of mind. ✨

📍 Liberation Place — we’ve got you.

08/21/2025

PBPNBC will be vending an informational booth at this event!

🌻 It’s Sunflower Baby Shower Week! 🌻

We’re so excited to welcome new and expecting parents to the Sunflower Baby Shower — happening THIS Sunday, August 24, from 2–4 p.m.

• The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus – 2nd Level Auditorium
• Park and enter through Main Entrance A off 7th & Horne St.

Free event! Come explore, connect and celebrate your parenting journey with us!
This free, family-friendly event is your chance to explore local resources, tour our New Life Center, and connect with OB/GYNs, pediatricians and neonatal nurse practitioners who are ready to support your growing family.

Don’t miss the exciting prize drawings!
• MamaRoo Swing
• Smash cake + big cake for baby’s 1st birthday from Ohmygoodies LLC by Sara Jean
• Prizes from our vendors and local businesses, including Circle Coffee, H&H Designs KS- Custom Apparel & Local Goods, Solitaire Head Spa and The HIVE Topeka–plus many more!

08/21/2025

We know the composition of colostrum (the first milk) differs when babies are born term or preterm. But did you know it also differs among term babies who are born small for gestational age (SGA), large for gestational age (LGA), and appropriate for gestational age? Download this study free here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40583475/

08/21/2025

08/20/2025

🤱🏾🤰🏾🍓🌙🫶🏾

August is National Breastfeeding Month and at SPTHB we strive to make meaningful connections in our communities. Our work is stronger through collaboration and this month we're highlighting one of our community partners, Stephanne Rupnicki, and her continued commitment to improving maternal health outcomes for Native communities and honoring culturally rooted care for Indigenous mothers and families.

08/20/2025

With Indigenous Milk Medicine Week at a close, we want to highlight some of the ways that milk is medicine. When we breastfeed or chestfeed, we engage in an act of love and care that nourishes our bodies, our spirits, and our community bonds. Milk Medicine is a sacred tradition that goes beyond lactation.

Human milk:
- is antibacterial, antifungal and anti-inflammatory
- provides essential nutrients
- reduces the risk of SIDS
and many more.

Learn more about the benefits of breastfeeding at https://hubs.la/Q03DfNps0

08/12/2025

Jasha is such an inspiration! Beautifully said!

La Leche League USA helps parents, families, and communities to breastfeed, chestfeed, and human milk feed their babies through parent-to-parent support. LLL USA encourages, informs, educates, supports, and promotes the use of human milk and the intimate relationship and development that comes from....

08/11/2025

The 4th trimester