Will you help us dismantle racial bias in breastfeeding/chestfeeding support?

DID YOU KNOW?

• San Diego has pockets of ‘breastfeeding deserts’ where there is limited access to breastfeeding support groups and lactation consultants, specifically for low income families and families of color.

• Without access to breastfeeding support, these families stop breastfeeding sooner than they planned, negatively impacting the physical and emotional health of both the nursing parent and the baby. 

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Will you help us dismantle this racial bias and income discrimination?

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Your donations go directly to pay for lactation consultations for families, like Julia’s!

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We have raised $7920 this month. Can you help us reach our goal of $10,000?

Our ability to help families like Julia’s is only possible with your help. Thank you so much for supporting our foundation!

Warmly,
Robin Kaplan
President, San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation

Our 2019 Fundraiser was a HUGE Success!

Thank you!  Thank you! Thank you!  

Our 2019 end-of-the year fundraiser was such a HUGE success and we cannot thank you enough for all of your support.  Our goal was to raise $10,000 between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve and we ended the fundraiser with donations totaling $5,850! We are truly humbled by our community’s support, which allows us to forge forward in 2020 to provide free and reduced-fee breastfeeding consultations for families with financial and racial barriers to receiving breastfeeding support. The recipients’ testimonials say it all…. these consultations were lifesavers!

Due to your generosity, we will be able to provide over 50 free/reduced-fee breastfeeding consultations in 2020.  This covers about 25% of the consultations we plan to provide in 2020, so while our fundraising efforts never end, this gets us off to an amazing start in 2020!

Something new we added during this year’s fundraising campaign was dedicating a week’s donations to fund a scholarship for a local woman of color to become an IBCLC.  We are pleased to announce that we raised $1920 for our scholarship fund and look forward to gifting this to an IBCLC student in 2020!

Thank you to our donors!

Each of our donors is incredibly important and imperative for funding our programs, which is why we like to share their names on our donor pages!  There also are a few donors we would like to personally thank today for their very generous donations this year. These individuals and businesses donated $250 or more to our foundation in 2019:

Schoenith Foundation, TUA

Dr. Stanton, Victoria, and Alana Hom at Future Generations

Dr. Najmeh Hannahvash at Little Star Pediatric Dentistry

Kindred Bravely

Rawr Naturals

Gymboree

Good Vibrations Chiropractic 

Rebecca Hammond

Jamie Reichling

Cheryl and Greg Williams

Becoming Peaceful

Nutrition in Bloom

Blissful Bellys

Sugar Night Night

Rise Physical Therapy

Sakura Bloom

Thank you, from all of us at the San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation!  You have truly made a difference in so many families’ lives and we so appreciate it!

Still want to donate?

You can make a one-time donation or a recurring monthly donation (which is one of our favorites!), through our website at any time! 

Increase Access to Breastfeeding Support this Giving Tuesday 2019

We’d like you to meet Veronica.  She is one of the moms who was able to access affordable breastfeeding support because of the reduced-free consultations provided by the San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation.

I reached out to the San Diego Breastfeeding center after experiencing the hardest eight weeks of my life. My baby was born a few weeks premature, he had a tongue and lip tie, he experienced colic, and we had many lactation problems among a number of other issues. I was desperate, I felt helpless and was beginning to experience postpartum depression and anxiety. As my last hope, I left a voice message at the SD Breastfeeding Center thinking I would get a call back until Monday since it was a weekend; however, I was surprised to get a call back that same day. The person on the phone was very understanding and empathic, and she was able to schedule my appointment with Robin right away. I explained that we had so many expenses given all the issues we experienced and I was worried that I would not be able to keep my appointment because I could not afford it. Again, the administrator who helped me was very understanding and I was offered a lower fee.

I felt so fortunate to be able to work with Robin, who is extremely knowledgeable and professional. I was in tears at my appointment, but with her positive and calm energy she was able to provide the support and empowerment I needed to not lose hope. Had they not offered a reduced fee, I would have never been able to breastfeed my baby, something which was extremely important for me to do. I am forever grateful with Robin and the SD Breastfeeding Center for giving me such an opportunity to obtain services I would have never imagined I could have access to. I am happy to say that my baby is now five months old and we are breastfeeding beautifully.

- Veronica G.

Did you know that San Diego has pockets of ‘breastfeeding deserts’ where there is limited access to breastfeeding support groups and lactation consultants.  These deserts exist in areas that have a higher population of low income families and families of color. This is absolutely unacceptable! Access to breastfeeding education and feeding support is a basic human right, not a privilege.  

Your donation today, no matter the size, helps us train breastfeeding support staff and provide free and low-cost breastfeeding consultations to families living in these breastfeeding deserts.  Help us break down these income and racial disparities today!

Join me in helping local families, like Veronica’s, gain access to critical breastfeeding support on this #GivingTuesday. 

Wondering how to do this?

We are asking you to help us #SupportSDMoms by donating your weekly coffee money!  It’s that simple!  If everyone reading this blog post/email donated $20 today (the amount they would spend at a coffee shop this week), we would be able to raise over $40,000 on #GivingTuesday.  

Can you help us reach our $10,000 goal?

All you have to do is click on this Go Fund Me link to donate this week’s coffee allowance and help bring affordable and accessible breastfeeding support to hundreds of local families.

To donate to the San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation, you can send a check to:

San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation

8325 University Ave.

La Mesa, CA 91942

Or donate through Go Fund Me!