Lactation Services
Children’s Mercy has a lactation team, including nurses who are certified to provide you with personalized education in breast feeding and pumping. Please ask a member of your child’s health care team to get in touch with a lactation nurse if you are having any issues breastfeeding your baby.
The following resources are also here to provide you with the support that many postpartum moms typically experience with their breasts.
Breastfeeding is one of the most important things you can do for your baby. Below are resources to provide you support:
We are here to help make the collection and storage of your milk as easy as possible while your child is at Children’s Mercy.
Breast milk collection and storage at Children’s Mercy Hospital:
- Breastfeeding Fact Sheet / Amamantar y extracción de leche
- Breast Shield Sizing
- Does Your Pump Flange Fit?
- Frequently asked questions about breast milk storage at home for healthy infants
- Hand Expression / Extracción manual y extractores de leche materna
- Hand Expression (video)
- Hands-On Pumping Routine (video)
- How many times to pump English / Spanish
- Obtaining a Breast Pump for Home / Cómo obtener un extractor de leche para el hogar
- Hands-on pumping / Como Sacarse Leche de Forma Práctica
- Storage and handling of milk for the hospitalized infant / La lactancia y cómo recolectar, almacenar, y transportar la leche materna
- Symphony Pump How-To (video)
Successfully making and keeping a milk supply for your baby can be stressful and emotional. We've put together these resources to help you:
The decision or need to stop providing breast milk is also difficult and we want to support you in this process with the resources below:
How you eat can affect how good you feel and your ability to make milk. This resource will help in making nutritious choices:
Some medications that you take can go into your breast milk and affect your baby. Use these resources as well as your health care provider in making decisions about taking medications, including supplements:
- Cold and Allergy Medications and Breastfeeding
- Drugs and Alcohol and Breastfeeding / Consumo de drogas y alcohol mientras provee leche materna
- MotherToBaby Medications Fact Sheets
Breast pain can be emotionally draining and stressful. It can contribute to difficulties with pumping and feeding at the breast.
Below are resource to help new moms with breast pain and other common problems they may encounter after giving birth:
- Blocked Milk Ducts / El conducto de leche bloqueado
- Engorged or Swollen Breasts / Lactancia, Ingurgitación mamaria
- Mastitis or a Breast Infection / Mastitis (Español)
- Sore Nipples / Pezones adoloridos
- Successfully Using a Nipple Shield
- Too much milk - English / Spanish
- Yeast Infection / Infección causada por hongos
Please contact your health care provider for breast pain that is persistent and that concerns you.