What is a Baby Café?

Baby Cafés are free, drop-in, informal breastfeeding support groups offering ongoing professional lactation care and intervention. Most are open for 2 hours at least once a week. Some communities have more than one, meeting different days of the week.

BCUSA Updates

Baby Cafés and the Covid-19 virus

Baby Cafés are offering VIRTUAL BABY CAFÉ MEETINGS during COVID-19 restrictions.

Individual Baby Cafés will follow the Communicable Disease guidelines of their sponsoring organizations regarding group gatherings, therefore as of March 2021, some Baby Cafés are meeting in person.
 
Please check individual listings on the top and bottom of this page (Find a Baby Café button), or with local Community and Facebook listings to connect to a VIRTUAL Baby Café. 
 
NOTE:  If a participant, staff member, or volunteer has any symptoms of respiratory disease, or has traveled in the past 10 days, please do not attend any Baby Café in person that may be open.

BE WELL and STAY SAFE  

Baby Café Breastfeeding Counselor Graduate Spotlight

Krystle Wallace

Krystle is a Coast Guard Academy Graduate and Coast Guard Reservist. She is married to an active duty Coastie and has two kids she proudly breastfed.  After transitioning from Active to Reserve and the birth of her second child, Krystle started to really contemplate what she wanted for a career outside of the Military. It did not take long for her to choose the lactation field. She started by obtaining her Master's degree in Health and Wellness with a focus in Human Lactation from Union Institute and University. She obtained her CLC while in grad school and worked for three years as a CLC with NOLA Baby Café. During her time with Nola Baby Café she worked on her Baby Café Breastfeeding Counselor (BCBC). Her time at at NOLA Baby Café brought her closer to the New Orleans Community. Currently there is no Baby Café near her current home. So Krystle currently serves as a Le Leche League leader in her local area. Krystle is also the Education director for the Military Lactation Course and hopes to one day become an IBCLC. She will also be taking over as the Executive Director of Mom2Mom global, a global organization that provides lactation support to Military members and their families. Krystle is dedicated to providing lactation support in any community she lives. Baby Café instilled her love and passion for community support organizations that focus on lactation care and hopes to one day be able to open her own Café when her family is finished moving around the country. 

In the News

MelroseWakefield Healthcare Baby Café Empowers Milk Recipient to Become Milk Donor

MelroseWakefield Healthcare Baby Café grand opening. Lisa tells her story of receiving milk at MelroseWakefield Hospital, then going on to donate milk twice, with the support of the Baby Café. READ MORE

FROM BREASTFEEDING MEDICINE JOURNAL: Examining the Baby Café Model and Mothers' Breastfeeding Duration, Meeting of Goals, and Exclusivity 

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Accessible community lactation support impacts a woman's breastfeeding success by offering timely intervention and solutions, thereby allowing mothers to achieve breastfeeding goals and improve overall breastfeeding rates... READ MORE

5 Reasons to Give or Get Support at Baby Café USA

​Not every breastfeeding mother wants or needs an in-person visit along with the pressure of showing up at the appointed time... READ MORE