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Podcast: Leigh-Anne Williams
Episode: Wellness Wednesday: Professor Lisanne du Plessis (World Breastfeeding Week)
Description: World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August. In 2023, the theme, enabling breastfeeding, making a difference for working parents, highlights that workplace challenges are the most common reasons for never breastfeeding or stopping before the recommended first six months of life. Professor Lisanne du Plessis, ADSA spokesperson, registered dietitian and academic at the Division for Human Nutrition at Stellenbosch University, chats to Leigh-Anne Williams to share more about this year's theme, the benefits of breastfeeding for the first six months as well as what workplaces and employers can do to make their offices breastfeeding friendly.Â