Breastfeeding Support & Equipment

Provides comprehensive health care to low income or uninsured pregnant women. Services include prenatal care, nutrition education, and breastfeeding classes.

Offering Safe Sleep education and Cribs for Kids.

We build community support to make breastfeeding the infant the feeding norm for Southern Nevada through monthly meetings and sharing ideas and resources while offering educational opportunities and community events. **<em>Classes held virtually during the pandemic.</em>

Breast milk donation is used to make human milk fortifier and standardized human milk from 100% human milk. Both are sold to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) across the United States for critically ill premature babies who need more protein and calories than are naturally occurring in mother’s milk.

Provides national breastfeeding and women’s health hotlines and works to improve the health and sense of wellbeing of all U.S. women and girls.

Website resources A-Z Health Topics. Supporting nursing mothers at work.

OWN Helpline: Helpline connects callers with information and resources to answer health questions.

Provides direct assistance to pediatric patients and their families. The Mother's Milk Bank collects, processes, and provides donor human milk to babies nationwide. Information on how to receive milk can be found online.
The Stink Bug Project supports families who have a child diagnosed with a serious medical condition.
The Stink Bug Project, in partnership with the prison-trained K-9 Program at Colorado Correctional Industries, matches well-trained, loving companion dogs with families throughout the Rocky Mountain region.

Call Lee Shaughnessy 720.507.0907 to determine if your client qualifies.

Medela's primary focus is breastfeeding - by helping moms to successfully breastfeed their babies and to do so for as long as they choose. This includes production of breastfeeding equipment as well as training and educational materials.

Products include special devices for breastfeeding cleft lip/palate infants. They also have available, infant scales for measuring breastmilk intake.

They also offer an online support community, Ask the LC, and Breastfeeding University. Also information about insurance coverage for breast pumps.

Certification for doulas, childbirth educators, and lactation educators.

Online Directory: Find doulas and educators by certification, location, or services.

Provides breastfeeding information and a list of local lactation consultants.

• Breastfeeding Support Programs