Mothers' Milk Bank Austin

MMBA Celebrates National Breastfeeding Month during August! National Breastfeeding Month Celebration & Awareness Concert August 8th at Central Market Junior League volunteer, Becky, helps out at the concert   Elizabeth McQueen entertains the crowd! Lots of happy, dancing children! Thanks to Helthy Mothers, Healthy Babies for the awesome shirts--they were a huge hit. Kim Updegrove, Executive Director of MMBA is presented with a proclamation from the Mayor's office Donor Milk: The Documentary Austin Premiere at Alamo Drafthouse on August 14th  MMBA Board Member, Donor Mom and Recipient Mom, Kari Anne Roy, with husband, Steven Roy. Board Vice President, Wendy Morgan (right)   MMBA Board President, Peter Untalan and his wife, Sydney   Film Director, Kevin West and Producer, Jarred King  Q & A Panel Discussion  

PRESS RELEASE For Milk Bank interviews, please call Emily Hoppe, 512.494.0800, emily@milkbank.org THE MOTHERS’ MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INSPIRES CENTRAL TEXAS WOMEN TO JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL BREASTFEEDING CHALLENGE Central Texas milk bank joins other groups at downtown farmers market, encouraging breastfeeding mothers to “Keep Austin Breastfeeding” Austin, TEXAS--September 19, 2012—On September 29, many Austinites will travel to Oklahoma State to cheer on the Longhorns for Big 12 conference showdown. But a group of Central Texas moms will enter a worldwide competition to have the most breastfeeding babies who are “latched on” at 11 a.m. local time. The goal is for more than 200 mothers and their babies and older children will gather at the Downtown Farmers Market in Republic Park, located at 4th and Guadalupe. Registration will open at 10:30 a.m., and the event will begin at 11 a.m. This is the eighth year that The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin, one of North America’s 13 non-profit m...

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