Classes provide you and your family with the most current information to support you with successful breastfeeding in the first few weeks of life. Dads and grandparents are welcome and encouraged to come to all of the classes.
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Q: If my baby is sick, is it okay to breast feed?
A: Yes. One of the best things you can do for your sick baby is keep breastfeeding.
Do not stop breastfeeding if your baby is sick. Give your baby many chances to breast feed throughout the illness. Babies who are sick need more fluids than when they are well. The fluid babies get from breast milk is better than anything else, even better than water, juice, or Pedialyte® because it also helps protect your baby’s immune system.
If your baby is too sick to breast feed, he or she can drink your milk from a cup, bottle, syringe, or eye-dropper.
Health Care Reform Boosts Support for Employed Breastfeeding Mothers
With the inclusion of this provision in health care reform legislation, the U.S. joins the rest of the industrialized world in recognizing breastfeeding as the natural outcome of pregnancy, and workplace lactation programs as the natural outcome of a society where the majority of mothers and infants are separated due to work. Read more.