Baby Café USA
  • About Us
    • Who is BCUSA?
    • Baby Café Locations
    • Director and Board
    • Staff
    • State Coordinators
    • Advisory Group
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  • For Parents
    • Find a Baby Café
    • Parent Registration Form
    • Parent Session Attendance Form
    • Mothers Charter
    • FAQs for Parents
    • Breastfeeding Help
    • Donating Milk
  • Opening a New Café
    • FAQs for Professionals
    • Funding Possibilities
    • Staffing Guidelines
  • User Portal
    • For Facilitators
    • BCBC Mentor Program
    • For Administrators
    • Baby Café Current Reports
    • Baby Café History Reports
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteers
    • BCBC Mentor Program
    • Donate
  • Contact
  • About Us
    • Who is BCUSA?
    • Baby Café Locations
    • Director and Board
    • Staff
    • State Coordinators
    • Advisory Group
    • Baby Café USA History
  • For Parents
    • Find a Baby Café
    • Parent Registration Form
    • Parent Session Attendance Form
    • Mothers Charter
    • FAQs for Parents
    • Breastfeeding Help
    • Donating Milk
  • Opening a New Café
    • FAQs for Professionals
    • Funding Possibilities
    • Staffing Guidelines
  • User Portal
    • For Facilitators
    • BCBC Mentor Program
    • For Administrators
    • Baby Café Current Reports
    • Baby Café History Reports
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteers
    • BCBC Mentor Program
    • Donate
  • Contact

Breastfeeding Help​

If you can't get to a local Baby Café, or you need immediate breastfeeding information or alternative sources of support, check out the links below.

  • ​Find an IBCLC: IBCLCs are Internationally Board-Certified Lactation Consultants with professional qualifications. Many work in Hospitals or in private practice with home offices, or may travel to your home; they will charge a fee but most insurance covers visits. Hospitals may also offer one-on-one consultations billed through insurance or self-pay. 
  • La Leche League USA: Part of LLL International made up of a network of volunteer breastfeeding counselors offering support by telephone, e-mail, and informal support meetings.  Find a counselor or group, call the helpline or submit an online help form. LLL also publishes books/leaflets for mothers and health professionals. Helpline number: 1-877-452-5324 (1-877-4 LA LECHE)
  • Black Mothers' Breastfeeding Association: Provides education, free doula support, resources and ongoing breastfeeding support to black families in the Detroit area. 
  • R.O.S.E. : (Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere)  provides resources and networking opportunities for individuals and communities of color. Offers Baby Cafés, Breastfeeding Clubs, and Community Transformer training.
  • Breastfeeding USA: Volunteer Breastfeeding Counselors  accredited after completing a breastfeeding education program. Support for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers (one-on-one and group situations).
  • Kellymom.com: A very helpful website backed by IBCLCs and MDs with lots of answers and links to other good resources.
  • Office on Women's Health: U.S. Government Helpline; staffed with breastfeeding peer counselors fluent in English or Spanish, will support you through breastfeeding challenges and connect you with other resources to help if needed.
Find an IBCLC

​Additional Resources

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  • LLLGB Kindle booklet: Positioning & Attachment: and how improving it can help you solve common breastfeeding problems
  • Off to a Good Start booklet in Chinese, Arabic and Polish
  • La Leche League breastfeeding answers
  • Australian Breastfeeding Association
  • Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative and Unicef leaflets and resources for parents
  • WorkAndPump
  • International Breastfeeding Center (Dr Jack Newman & Edith Kernerman) Handouts, Video Clips and DVD
  • Biological Nurturing information and video clip
  • Expressing your milk effectively
  • ​Supporting Nursing Moms at Work  (Office of Women's Health)
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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. 
Baby Café USA is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization supporting the development of licensed U.S. Baby Cafés. ​ ​Registered Non-profit No. 80-0787743

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