Specialties & Departments
- Adolescent Medicine
- Allergy/Immunology
- Anesthesiology
- Cancer & Blood Disorders Center
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Child Abuse Resource and Evaluation Team
- Craniofacial Reconstruction/Cleft Palate
- Day Surgery
- Dermatology
- Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
- Diabetes and Endocrine Center
- ECMO Center
- ECMO Program Information for Physicians
- Emergency Medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Genetics
- Heart Center
- Infectious Diseases
- Maternal Fetal Medicine
- Medical Education
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Operating Room
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Otolaryngology
- Out Patient Services
- Pediatric Intensive Care
- Pediatric Surgery
- Pharmacy
- Plastic Surgery
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Rehabilitation Services
- Renal Transplants
- Rheumatology
- Transport Services
- Urology
- Weight Management
Support Services
- Admitting
- Billing
- Discharge Planning & Referring
- Driscoll Health Plan
- Employment
- Family Advisory Board
- Family Connection
- Giving
- Interpretation Services
- Lean On Me
- Pastoral Care
- Patient Relations
- Physician Communication
- Social Work
- Stripes Child Life Program at Driscoll Children's Hospital
- Telemedicine
- Volunteering
- Web Nursery
- WIC
Patient Family Education
Medical Care
Support Services
- Admitting
- Billing
- Discharge Planning & Referring
- Driscoll Health Plan
- Family Advisory Board
- Giving
- Family Connection
- Lean On Me
- Interpretation Services
- Pastoral Care
- Patient Relations
- Physician Communication
- Social Work
- Stripes Child Life Program at Driscoll Children's Hospital
- Volunteering
- Telemedicine
- Web Nursery
- WIC
Patient & Family Education
- Coastal Bend Health Finder
- Patient and Family Education Materials
- Government Product Recalls
- Hand Hygiene
- Food & Nutrition
- Injury Prevention
- Safe Sleep Program
- Mom's Place
- S.A.F.E. Program
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 assistance
- International Board Certified Lactation Consultant available as needed
- Video Library
- Free current breastfeeding literature
- 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
361-694-5338
DCH WIC Peer Counselors
361-694-4728
Texas Breastfeeding Hotline
1-800-514-6667
La Leche League International Hotline
1-800-525-3243
361-985-0705
Navy-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.org
Medela Breastfeeding
Contact Information
Driscoll Children's Hospital
Mom's Place
3533 S. Alameda Street
Corpus Christi, Texas 78411
3rd floor - Main Building
(just to the right of 3rd floor lobby)
Phone: 361-694-4234
Mom's Place
3533 S. Alameda Street
Corpus Christi, Texas 78411
3rd floor - Main Building
(just to the right of 3rd floor lobby)
Phone: 361-694-4234
For TTY Deaf Messaging Connect to TTY Interpretation by dialing
(800) 735-2989
(800) 735-2989
Patients & Families
News
Driscoll's Teddy Bear Hospital is a chance for patients to be the doctors
May 20, 2013
WHAT: Patients will be the doctors tomorrow during a Teddy Bear Hospital organized by the Stripes Child Life Program at Driscoll Children's Hospital. The event allows children to become more familiar with the medical equipment and procedures involved in their treatment. They'll choose their teddy bear, give it a...
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Brownsville boy is 'a totally different person' since leukemia diagnosis
May 03, 2013
Driscoll Children's Hospital physicians treat Andrew Banda in his hometown, Brownsville
BROWNSVILLE - Claudia Maldonado knew her son, Andrew Banda, was sick in January 2012. At 8 years old, he was too thin and his yellowish eyes revealed he had jaundice, she said. Still, the news that he had acute lymphoblastic leukemia...
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Driscoll transplant recipients to gather at annual reunion
May 03, 2013
'It's a family reunion,' 19-year-old said of May 4 event
CORPUS CHRISTI - In the months before he received a kidney transplant at Driscoll Children's Hospital last August, Joe Esparza had plenty of reasons to be depressed. His failing kidneys meant he couldn't eat french fries, cheese and fatty foods. He couldn't play...
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Dwarfism doesn't prevent 3-year-old boy from living life
May 02, 2013
Ethann Valdez's story is second in Driscoll Children's Hospital's 60th anniversary series
CORPUS CHRISTI - Darting around a waiting area at Driscoll Children's Hospital with a huge smile on his face, Ethann Valdez has the seemingly endless energy of any 3-year-old boy. He doesn't appear to be bothered much by the life-threatening...
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Marathon bringing Driscoll weight management patients together
May 01, 2013
Lap band recipients will run Beach to Bay Relay Marathon as the 'Bandsters'
CORPUS CHRISTI - Crossing the finish line at last year's Beach to Bay Relay Marathon was a proud accomplishment for Jamie Bluntzer. At this year's event, she's taking her goal to the next level.
"I'm more nervous about it this year," she said...
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Driscoll's Teddy Bear Hospital is a chance for patients to be the doctors
May 20, 2013
WHAT: Patients will be the doctors tomorrow during a Teddy Bear Hospital organized by the Stripes Child Life Program at Driscoll Children's Hospital. The event allows children to become more familiar with the medical equipment and procedures involved in their treatment. They'll choose their teddy bear, give it a...
READ MORE
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Brownsville boy is 'a totally different person' since leukemia diagnosis
May 03, 2013
Driscoll Children's Hospital physicians treat Andrew Banda in his hometown, Brownsville
BROWNSVILLE - Claudia Maldonado knew her son, Andrew Banda, was sick in January 2012. At 8 years old, he was too thin and his yellowish eyes revealed he had jaundice, she said. Still, the news that he had acute lymphoblastic leukemia...
READ MORE
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Driscoll transplant recipients to gather at annual reunion
May 03, 2013
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Dwarfism doesn't prevent 3-year-old boy from living life
May 02, 2013
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Marathon bringing Driscoll weight management patients together
May 01, 2013
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