Photo: The best food comes from your mom

Nancy Gaudrette (left) with her five-month old baby, Nuka Naulaq, and Sarah Garnier (right) with her three-month old baby, Sadie Price, show that moms make the healthiest food a baby can consume, at the annual Breastfeeding Challenge held Oct. 2 inside Iqaluit’s public health clinic to mark National Breastfeeding Week, which runs Oct. 1 to Oct. 7 this year. Iqaluit public health nurse Margot Suttis, the clinic’s lactation consultant, urges all new mothers to breastfeed their babies exclusively until about the age of two — because breastfeeding leads to better brain development and stronger immune systems in children. (PHOTO BY JIM BELL)