Breastfeeding Resources
Helplines
- National Women’s Health and Breastfeeding Helpline:
- 1-800-994-9662
- 9 AM – 6PM Eastern, English and Spanish
- Breastfeeding USA Warmline:
- (612)293-6622
- Leave a message with your name & phone number and a Breastfeeding USA counselor will return your call within 24 hours
PSI Resources
- Breast- and Body-Feeding Specialized Support Coordinator
- PSI has a Specialized Coordinator available to offer support and understanding around the mental health challenges of breast- and body-feeding.
- https://postpartum.net/get-help/specialized-support-resources/
- Free Online Support Groups
- PSI offers 50+ free and virtual support groups including a support group focused on “When Breastfeeding & Bodyfeeding Ends Before You Are Ready”
Breastfeeding and Medication Resources
- Utah Department of Health Pregnancy Risk Line
- https://dhhs.utah.gov/
- (855) 999-3525
- Email: expertinfo@mothertobaby.org
- MotherToBaby Utah (also known as the Pregnancy Risk Line), an affiliate of the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), is dedicated to providing evidence-based information to mothers, healthcare professionals, and the general public about medications and other exposures during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. You can now text your questions to MotherToBaby at (855) 999-3525 or email your question(s) to expertinfo@mothertobaby.org.
- MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health:
- http://www.womensmentalhealth.org/
- (617) 724-7792
- Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women’s Mental Health is to provide state-of-the-art evaluation and ongoing care for women who suffer from a spectrum of psychiatric disorders and to improve the lives of patients and their families. Clinical care at the Center is complemented by research across a range of areas including premenstrual dysphoric disorder, pregnancy and postpartum mood disturbance, and peri and post- menopausal depression. The goal of conducted research is to address critical unanswered questions which can inform clinical care and to disseminate important research findings which emerge across the field of women’s mental health.
- InfantRisk Center
- 1 (806) 352-2519 8:00AM – 3:00PM CST, Monday- Friday
- https://infantrisk.com/
- The InfantRisk Center (IRC) is a world-wide call center presently in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, in Amarillo. The InfantRisk Center is used by physicians, nurses, lactation consultants, and mothers in every part of the world. Virtually all calls are about multiple drugs, averaging 3-4 individual drugs. We do our best to help moms, lactation consultants, and doctors evaluate the risk to the infant from exposure to multiple drugs, and keep the mom breastfeeding.
Additional Resources
- La Leche League International: http://llli.org
- WIC: https://wicbreastfeeding.fns.usda.gov/