We believe that breastfeeding is the natural continuation of the reproductive process.  It benefits both mom and baby.  Because we know that Mother's milk is the most perfectly balanced food for baby's growth and development; We discuss breastfeeding prenatally, we offer breastfeeding classes, we host the Breastfeeding Cafe, and our lending library is stocked with books on breastfeeding.   We offer continued support throughout the postpartum period.  This includes 24/7 phone availability as well as the scheduled 24 hour, 3 day, 2 week, and 6 week postpartum visits.  If further support is needed, we will make the appropriate referals, so that the vast majority of women who wish to breastfeed there babies can do so successfully.

 

"Full term newborn infants should be breastfed..."
           -American Academy of Pediatrics

 

"When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form."
               -Christine Northrup M.D.

"Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine."
          -Frank Oski, M.D., retired editor, Journal of Pediatrics