Photo: CamBay holds breastfeeding challenge

Becca Raper of Cambridge Bay breast feeds her children, Mo and Vaylea, at the community’s Sept. 28 annual breastfeeding challenge, held in advance of National Breastfeeding Week, Oct. 1 to Oct. 7. About six in 10 Nunavut women breast feed their babies over some period of time, says the Inuit Child Health Survey for Nunavut. But only one in three were exclusively breast fed for six months, the period recommended by the World Health Organization. Similar breastfeeding challenges will be take place during National Breastfeeding Week in other Nunavut communities, including Rankin Inlet where the Pulaarvik Kablu Friendship Centre plans to host a challenge on Oct. 5. (PHOTO BY JANE GEORGE)