Breastfeeding Resources

Here you’ll find a collection of breastfeeding resources created by Women’s Health Action to support you. You can also explore our Breastfeeding Videos library.

Support for Breastfeeding Parents

This is a handy list of resources for parents in relation to breastfeeding:

Find Your Breastfeeding Support – a tool that lets you search for Breastfeeding Support in New Zealand. You will be able to find support and contact deatils for breastfeeding services available near you.

Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces – information for both employees and employers to promote a supportive workplace environment for breastfeeding in Aotearoa.

He Wāhi Haumaru – Creating safe spaces for infant feeding – a collaboration between BreastfeedingNZ, Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service and Womens Health Action. This iniative will soon help you find safe and welcoming spaces to feed pēpi in your local community.

For more information on feeding options:

• Expressing at work
• Formula feeding
• Handling of Expressed Breastmilk and Formula (for ECE centres)

Breastfeeding & Return to Work Plan

This collaborative return to work plan to help facilitate positive guided discussions and create a plan for returning to work while breastfeeding. These conversations and the self advocacy which is often needed can be hard for the parent who is returning to work

This form follows the recommendations from Employment New Zealand, current codes and legislation around breastfeeding in the workplace and provides encouragement to employers on the benefits of creating a breastfeeding friendly workplace.

Download the Breast Feeding And Return to Work Plan

Just 10 Steps Breastfeeding Resource

This resource is for parents and whānau and lets them know what they can expect from their birthing unit or hospital, tips for breastfeeding in public, returning to work while breastfeeding and useful tips from other parents plus further information.

View the ‘Just 10 Steps’ resource on mobile phone here.

Whānau expectations for breastfeeding

‘Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding’ – looking at it from whānau māori point of view. This approach talks about how whānau can be champions of their own breastfeeding and the practical ways that we can support hapu and breastfeeding parents.

Shareable Breastfeeding Images Available to Download

Celebrate breastfeeding across Aotearoa by printing one of these posters to use in your workplace or download them to share on social media.

Click any of the images below and save image to download the PNG file.

Activities for Children

You can also print off these beautiful breastfeeding colouring pictures:

Colouring Pictures: animals feeding their young

Breastfeeding and Chestfeeding Images for Rainbow Whānau

Our Gender Diversity Lead, Lou Kelly, designed these images in 2022. They reflect the unique journeys that many rainbow, gender diverse and trans people experience when making a family.

Click on the images below to download and/or print.

Emergency Infant Feeding Plan

 This template is designed to help you be prepared for an emergency situation, for example: a power cut, infectious disease outbreak, flooding, earthquake, etc.

This plan for feeding pēpi (baby) in an emergency gives examples of ways to prepare for a minimum of 72 hours when you might have limited access to clean and safe water.

Click the link below to download the template and fill this out. Print or save the plan to your phone or computer. Share these documents with your friends and whānau so they too can be prepared in the case of an emergency.

Download the Emergency Infant Feeding Plan here.