Lactation Services

The Lactation Management Team is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of children by meeting the needs of mothers and babies. The team promotes, educates, supports and assists all mothers who are providing breastmilk. The team will encourage initiation and maintenance of breastmilk, as this is the optimal nutrition for all babies, especially ill or preterm infants.

Lactation Consultants practice at Children’s Mercy Hospital and Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas, both inpatient and outpatient area. 

Pumping rooms

Children's Mercy provides several pumping rooms for mothers. The rooms are available to all breastfeeding mothers with children at Children's Mercy.

Outpatient

• Same-day surgery waiting room

• 3rd Floor by outpatient clinics

• Near Security by Subway^® (Main Campus)

• By Boardroom (near SCAN and Surgery Clinic)
  
  

Inpatient

The Intensive Care Nursery is equipped with a designated room that consists of three separate stalls with privacy curtains. Each is equipped with a Medela Symphony breast pump. The room has a sink, towels, and bottles. Inpatient rooms have availability of a Symphony Pump to be brought to the room of the patient. These pumps are intended to be shared between rooms. They are cleaned when transferred to another room.