Australian Breast Feeding Association
Breast in Greater Geelong

Breastfeeding is a practical, learned aptitude and ABA aid more than 80,00 mothers each year. ABA also provides uptodate information and continuing education for thousands of health professionals occupied with mothers and babies. ABA was founded in 1964 by six Melbourne mothers as the Nursing Mothers' Association, with the aim of helping and supporting other mothers to breastfeed. Through a range of services, ABA supports and encourages women who want to breastfeed or bear breast milk for their babies, and advocates to elevate community awareness of the importance of breastfeeding and human milk to kid and maternal health. Breastfeeding promote Provide mothers with possible mothertomother urge and information, enabling them to establish and continue breastfeeding. Training, education and resources Provide high quality and close training, education and resources to our volunteers, health professionals and the wider community to ensure skilled, knowledgeable and possible breastfeeding urge for mothers. Advocacy Strengthens the advocacy labor of the Australian Breastfeeding Association in order to improve breastfeeding outcomes, and through participation in breastfeeding research and policy development, educate the broader community that breastfeeding is normal. Governance and organizational development Develop a well governed, effectively managed, representative and accountable organization that values and recognizes the contributions of its people. However, her primary focus for the following year is in leading ABA in its work to support, educate and support so we can amplify breastfeeding rates in Australia. Louise is a Governance Executive and Policy Solicitor with over 10 years post admission experience in private practice, governance and policy law reform. As a fresh mum practicing in policy, corporate law and governance, Louise is a passionate recommend of breastfeeding and in providing urge to parents, families, carers and workplaces to foster and enlarge breastfeeding rates. She competent as a community educator, then as a breastfeeding counselor in 2001, occupied in her local group and on the Breastfeeding Helpline. Sarah has a passion for numbers and utilizes her numerical skills in her professional career as a Manager in Business Banking at the National Australia Bank an organization she has been with since 2007. Deborah is a highly motivated and committed executive leader, with extensive experience in digital and strategic consulting across a range of industries, and in a global context. Her responsibilities have included leading consulting, business development, operations and resource management, financial and contractual management. Deborah has been a member of ABA since shortly behind the beginning of her beginning child in 2008, and has been a Board Director for the former 5 years. She is strongly committed to ensuring that the Association can help in improving breastfeeding rates across Australia so that more families can benefit from breastfeeding honest as her family has. Rebecca has worked in the health and community sector for more than 30 years. As the Australian Breastfeeding Association approaches the after 50 years, the key strategies of this plan will enable the organization to remain pertinent to the mothers who need information, aid and support as they breastfeed their babies. The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) values our ongoing partnerships with a number of companies which greatly aid us to produce our services to the community. A little family business owned by mum of 2, Corryn, Milk and Love is specialty breastfeeding boutique. Ubere supports mothers in their breastfeeding journey by providing lofty quality breast pumps and related products at close and competitive prices. Ubere envisions that their products will be worn by many mothers to produce nutritious breast milk for their babies and toddlers for years to come. The ABA welcomes encourage from companies and organizations that share our values of excellence and innovation in supporting the well being of mothers and babies.