Lactation-friendly healthcare practices support families to meet their unique breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding goals. Comprehensive lactation support in prenatal, birth, and postnatal care results in improved breastfeeding success. We would love to celebrate your support for breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding families in our community!
- Apply now for the Community Partner and Employer Award. Healthcare clinics and offices are community partners and employers, and it is a great starting place to show your support for lactating families!
- Community Partners are businesses and organizations that welcome breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding families.
- Businesses/Employers are workplaces that support lactating employees.
- Learn more: Healthcare Provider: Lactation Support Awards Toolkit from Breastfeed Orange NC.
- Check out the many resources below to help you create a lactation-friendly healthcare practice.
- Consider the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition Family Friendly Clinic Award for outpatient healthcare clinics
- The award is open to any outpatient medical clinic serving pregnant and postpartum women, infants and/or children in North Carolina.
- Applicants may include Health Departments, Family Medicine, Pediatric, Obstetric, Midwifery, or other types of clinics serving these populations.
Please email orangenc@breastfeedingcommunities.org with any questions!
Resources from Your Professional Academy or College
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM)
ABM Clinical Protocol #14: Breastfeeding-Friendly Physician’s Office: Optimizing Care for Infants and Children, Revised 2013
ABM Clinical Protocol #7: Model Maternity Policy Supportive of Breastfeeding
Additional ABM PROTOCOLS
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Breastfeeding, Family Physicians Supporting (Position Paper)
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Policy Statement: Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk
The Breastfeeding-Friendly Pediatric Office Practice
Breastfeeding Practice Tools for Health Professionals
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG)
Optimizing Support for Breastfeeding as Part of Obstetric Practice
Clinic Resources
Training Resources
Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI)
- CGBI Breastfeeding University offers four 20-30 minute Healthcare modules that provide evidence-based, up-to-date information from an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, lactation consultants, and public health professionals, The four interactive modules will help to establish a working knowledge of how to support families to meet their breastfeeding goals.
- View the Healthcare Module Descriptors: Healthcare Settings
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The CDC has funded the Physician Engagement and Training Focused on Breastfeeding Project with the goal to increase breastfeeding-related physician education and training. The Project Advisory Committee “conducted a landscape analysis of undergraduate and graduate medical education to guide the development of breastfeeding education and training for physicians
- Physician Education and Training to Support Breastfeeding Project Resources
Lactation Education Resources (LER)
LER offers courses for physicians and healthcare professionals that provide CME credits and breastfeeding support.
- Lactation Management Courses for Physicians
- Continuing Education for Healthcare Providers that provide CERPs, Nursing Contact Hours, and CME credits.
La Leche League (LLL)
LLL Webinar Library includes a number of relevant topics, including the following recommended webinars:
- Breastfeeding and Child Birth
- Breastfeeding and Mental Health
- Breastfeeding Difficulties Linked to Neuromuscular Deficits
- Breastfeeding in The Context of HIV
- Using Cultural Awareness And Cultural Humility In Breastfeeding Conversations
- Decoding The Codes: International Code Of Marketing, Code Of Ethics And Conflict Of Interest
- Torticollis And Jaw Asymmetry: Strategies For Assisting And Counseling The Breastfeeding Dyad
- What’s New in Postpartum Depression; Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
- When Breast Isn’t Best: Challenges And Opportunities For Sexual Abuse Survivors In Breastfeeding
Michigan Breastfeeding Network (MIBFN)
MIBFN presents FREE Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinars, including the following recommended webinars:
- Beyond Blame: Addressing the Barriers and Care Gaps that Prevent Access
- Breastfeeding with Trauma: Navigating the Journey After Sexual Assault
- First Food, Strong Roots: The Strategic Attempt to Annihilate the Practice of Black Breastfeeding
- Perinatal Emergency Preparedness
- Removing Barriers Collectively: Working Together to Improve Health Outcomes for Families Panel Discussion