2025 August Breastfeeding Month
Pouring Into Us – More than nourishment, it’s love, life, and legacy.
This year in honor of National Breastfeeding Month, MIBFN is celebrating with the theme, “Pouring Into Us,” to highlight the importance of life-sustaining human milk for families and communities. This August, we want to recognize all the ways we pour into each other as we work towards a more equitable, just, and breastfeeding-supportive culture!
Human milk is more than nourishment: it’s love, life, and legacy. Human milk-feeding is an act of love and long-term investment in maternal and infant health, especially during a time when public health resources and programs are being eliminated. Human milk is more than feeding – it’s pouring time, strength, and care into the next generation.
It’s important to honor all the folks who pour themselves into the work as they uplift families and work to change systems. At MIBFN, we are grateful for the life-saving work that birth and breastfeeding supporters do everyday as they serve families.
This August, join us as we recognize the many ways people pour themselves into breastfeeding support – from the first time lactating parent, to the exclusive pumper, from the partners who champion human milk, to the dedicated lactation professionals who provide clinical support.
Pouring Into Us – More than nourishment, it’s love, life, and legacy.
Proclamations
In recent years, Governor Whitmer has proclaimed August as Breastfeeding Month in Michigan! Stay tuned for this year’s proclamation.
- More information regarding the 2025 proclamation coming soon!
If you would like to do a proclamation in your community, there is a downloadable template for you to use. A donation of $10 provides you with the template that includes wording, instructions, and support from MIBFN. If you have questions please reach out to hello@mibreastfeeding.org.
Click here to donate and then a customizable template will be emailed to you.
Observances & Events
2025 August Breastfeeding Month:
- August 1-31 – National Breastfeeding Month: Theme: Forward Together
- August 1-31 – WIC Michigan Breastfeeding Month: Theme: TBA
- August 1-7 – World Breastfeeding Week: Theme: Prioritise Breastfeeding: Create Sustainable Support Systems
- August 8-14 – Indigenous Milk Medicine Week: Theme: Unapologetically Indigenous: Love, Landback, & Liberation
- August 15-21 – Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week: Theme: TBA
- August 25-31 – Black Breastfeeding Week: Theme: TBA
- September 5-11 – Latina/x Breastfeeding Week: Theme: TBA
Events in Michigan:
- TBD
Please email hello@mibreastfeeding.org to have your community’s event added to the list.
2025 August T-Shirt
In honor of National Breastfeeding Month, MIBFN is celebrating with custom design apparel available for August 2025.
This year the MIBFN theme is, “Pouring Into Us,” to highlight the importance of life-sustaining human milk for families and communities. This August, we want to recognize all the ways we pour into each other as we work towards a more equitable, just, and breastfeeding-supportive culture!
Be the first to wear this exclusive design made especially for August Breastfeeding Month. When you buy custom-made apparel all the proceeds directly support MIBFN’s mission to advocate, educate, and community-build alongside families and organizations for the advancement of an equitable, just, and breastfeeding-supportive culture.
Pouring Into Us – More than nourishment, it’s love, life, and legacy.
2025 design and sizing options here.
2025 Sponsorships
Last year we were so grateful to Priority Health for providing sponsorships to 31 local breastfeeding supporters to participate in the “Feeding the Future in Every Drop” virtual 5k!
While we don’t have any sponsorships for 2025, it’s not too late! Hospitals, insurance companies, Michigan businesses, and more can pitch in to sponsor apparel, proclamation support, events, community partnerships, and the overall mission, vision, and values of the Michigan Breastfeeding Network.
If you are interested in sponsoring any of the August Breastfeeding Month events, please contact hello@mibreastfeeding.org or 734-365-6559.