Driscoll Services - Mom’s Place
Let us help you initiate and maintain a successful breastfeeding relationship with your child.
Contact Mom’s Place for help with the following:
- Establishing your milk supply
- Maintaining your milk supply
- Nipple soreness, blisters, or cracks
- Breast engorgement
- Insufficient milk supply
- Latch-on problems
- Breast infections
- Flat or inverted nipples
- Special feeding needs of infants
- Returning to work or school
- Proper bra fitting size
- Proper pumping and storing of milk
Mission:
Driscoll Children’s Hospital encourages, promotes, and supports all breastfeeding women in their efforts to provide the best nutrition to their children.
Mom’s Place:
Services Available
- Breastfeeding classes for families
- Breastfeeding assistance
- International Board Certified Lactation Consultant available as needed
- Video Library
- Free current breastfeeding literature
- Mom’s Support Group
- Private rooms available to pump breast milk
- Telephone counseling on breastfeeding education
Advantages of Breastfeeding
- Breast milk reduces the risk of allergic reactions in infants
- Studies indicate a higher I.Q.
- Breast milk protects against cancer and diabetes
- Breast milk transmits mother’s immunities to the infant
- Breastfeeding reduces crying & colic in infants
- Breastfeeding promotes bonding and reduces cases of abuse and abandonment
- Breastfeeding allows mom time to cuddle and nurture her baby
- Mother’s milk changes to meet the baby’s specific needs
- Breastfeeding protects mothers against breast and ovarian cancer
- Protects environment: no packaging, no plastics, no waste
- Saves money
- Makes traveling easier
- Allows mother to spend more time with entire family
- Allows mothers to miss fewer work or school days because baby is sick less often
- Helps uterus return to pre-pregnancy shape and size
Community Breastfeeding Resource
Laurie Beck, RN, MSN, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
361-694-5338DCH WIC Peer Counselors
361-694-4728Texas Breastfeeding Hotline
1-800-514-6667La Leche League International Hotline
1-800-525-3243
361-985-0705Coastal Bend Birth Connection, Inc.
Darla Cassel
Certified Lactation Educator
361-729-7744 or pager 361-270-0468Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (for all military family)
Cheryl Mills, RN, IBCLC - Visiting Nurse
(361) 961-3483
(361) 961-2560 Fax
10133 E. Street, Bldg 1738
NAS Corpus Christi, TX 78419
www.nmcrs.orgMedela Breastfeeding Hotline
1-800-TELL-YOU
Contact Information:
Laurie Beck, RN, MSN, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
361-694-53383rd floor – Main Building
(just to the right of 3rd floor lobby)
361-694-4234
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