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NWGABF COALITION 2025 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Next years speaker is :

Dr. Hope Lima

Dr. Hope Lima (she/her) is a nutrition and lactation educator and clinician who wants to help raise the bar for how we care for clients in the field of maternal and child health. She is trained as a nutrition researcher, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN). Hope has advanced training in pediatric food allergies, metabolism, and utilizing an Internal Family Systems-informed counseling approach to support families.
Hope has experience in curriculum development, program planning and research methods as a professor in a university-level dietetics department.
Hope also has experience in clinical counseling through her private practice, Hope Feeds Families, based in Rock Hill, SC. She uses these experiences to provide meaningful, engaging learning experiences for professionals in the fields of nutrition, dietetics, and lactation.

We look forward to seeing all of you again in 2025 at the annual conference.

Available Videos to Stream

You can now watch the video, Breastfeeding: a Guide to Success, on your smartphone, tablet or computer. The video is being provided free of charge to benefit all. Please do not reproduce, alter or use parts of this video in other videos. Please share with others so that they can benefit also. If you are interested in purchasing a DVD, please contact us at NWGABFC@gmail.com .

Breastfeeding: A Guide for Success – Video in English
Amamantando: Una Guia para el Exito Video en Espanol

About

NorthWest Georgia Breastfeeding Coalition.

  1. Coalition Mission Statement:  The coalition serves to protect, promote, and support  breastfeeding as the preferred and accepted method of infant feeding.  Our activities focus on Education and   training, data collection, and the dissemination of current research information as well as community and public health advocacy.

  2. The Northwest Georgia Breastfeeding Coalition began on March 11, 1993 when the first official meeting was attended by 16 interested persons in Dalton, Georgia.

  3.  The NWGABF Coalition has produced two DVDs. “Getting Started with Breastfeeding” and “Breastfeeding: A Guide to Success” See sales section.

  4. The NWGABF Coalition plans and hosts an annual conference for lactation specialists and professionals.

  5. The Northwest Georgia Breastfeeding Coalition meetings are attended by La Leche League Leaders, IBCLCs, WIC employees, doctors, dietitians, nurses and anyone interested in promoting breastfeeding. We meet once a month.

    Call 706-260-1384 for more information.