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800-657-3942 (toll-free)

WIC Staff Breastfeeding Resources


Related topics: Breastfeeding Resources (for participants)

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Education | Videos/Photos | Prescription Medications | Contraindications | Materials | Partners


Education

Minnesota WIC Breastfeeding Guidance
Use for Nutrition Education Plan and reference.

  • Minnesota WIC Breastfeeding Guidance 2018 to 2019 (PDF)
  • Minnesota WIC Breastfeeding Guidance 2020 to 2021 (PDF)
  • Breastfeeding Assessment and Planning Tool - Staff (WORD)
  • Breastfeeding Assessment and Planning Tool: Agency (WORD)

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Videos/Photos

Know Your Rights (Video)
Information about employee's rights to time and space for milk expression at the workplace. Available in English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali.

Hand Expression of Milk (Video)

International Breastfeeding Center Breastfeeding Videos
Really Good Drinking; Squeezing Nipple Demonstrating Difference Between Poor Latch; 10-Hour Old Baby; 28-Hours Old - Baby-Led Mother-Guided Latching; and 4 Day Old After Tongue-Tie Release with Compression.

Paced Bottle Feeding

Articles for download
Biological Nurturing resources

Sample of Biological Nurturing (video)

Global Health Media Project Breastfeeding Videos.
From this page choose breastfeeding, then the language from the drop down, then select the video that says "for mothers." (Other videos on this page are for training health professionals.)

Academy of Breastfeeding Education Center
Resources and Information for professionals caring for breastfeeding parents an infants.

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Prescription Medications

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Breastfeeding - Prescription Medication Use

Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)

Infant Risk Center Resources

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Potential Contraindications

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Breastfeeding and Special Circumstances

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Materials

Human Milk Storage Guidelines (PDF - printable)

Human Milk Storage Guidelines (PDF - for viewing online)

MN Breastfeeding Laws Card

  • Minnesota Laws Protect Pregnant and Breastfeeding Parents (PDF - printable)
  • Minnesota Laws Protect Pregnant and Breastfeeding Parents (PDF - for viewing online)

Minnesota Department of Industry and Labor
Brochures and fact sheets about labor standards including parental leave, pregnancy leave and nursing mothers, pregnant employees and new parents, and more.

World Breastfeeding Week Thank You Postcard (PDF - printable)

"Hungry Babies Need to Eat" Clinic Signs

  • Hungry Babies Need to Eat - English (PDF)
  • Los bebés que tienen hambre necesitan comer - Spanish (PDF)
  • Dhallanka gaajayasani cunnuu u baahan yahay - Somali (PDF)
  • Hungry Babies Need to Eat - English, Spanish and Somali (PDF)

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Partners

Minnesota Breastfeeding Coalition

Coffective-Minnesota Initiatives


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Last Updated: 02/16/2023

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