WIC breastfeeding staff resources

National WIC Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7)

Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility

Each year in August, National WIC Breastfeeding Week is celebrated in conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week to promote and support breastfeeding as the best source of nutrition for a baby's first year of life. This year's World Breastfeeding Week theme, Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility, focuses on how breastfeeding contributes to the survival, health and wellbeing of all moms and their babies. Please click on the link above for resources and ideas to celebrate National WIC Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7, 2021.

Breastfeeding information for all staff

Breastfeeding and medications

• LactMed (website with drug and chemical database for breastfeeding - free)
• Hale's Medications and Mother's Milk (book)
• Mommymeds (website and app)

Breastfeeding websites for parents

• USDA - WIC breastfeeding support
• Kellymom
• Breast milk: Every Ounce Counts
• Ready, Set, Baby
• La Leche League information for parents

Sources for breastfeeding education materials and videos

• WIC Works resource system (USDA)
• Stanford videos about breastfeeding with Dr. Jane Morton
• Global Health Media Project, breastfeeding series (videos)
• Items available on Shopify:
• Breastfeeding rights wallet card
  
• Crib card
• My breastfeeding plan
• Why babies breastfeed often
• Hand expression
• Making more milk for your baby
• Understanding your baby's cues

Physician association websites

• Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Infant Risk Center - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Other resources

• List of breastfeeding resources
• WIC and MCH joint statement on breastfeeding and safe sleep

WIC breast pump resources

Oregon WIC breast pump information

• Breast pump handbook for WIC staff
• Policy 712: Breast pump ordering, distribution, and tracking guidelines
• Oregon WIC breast pump program FAQs
• Breast milk storage guidelines  English  |  Spanish
• Sample letter: Request to return electric breast pump (Word)   English  |  Spanish

Breast pump education materials

• Available on Shopify:
• Pumping and storing breast milk
• Hand expression
• Breastfeeding employees rights flyer

Breast pump loan forms and questionnaires

• Fillable multi-user electric pump loan agreement  English  |  Spanish
• Available on Shopify:
• Multi-user electric pump loan agreement (57-750)  English/Spanish
• Breast pump release form (57-751)  English/Spanish
• Breast pump questionnaire (57-752)  English/Spanish

Breast pump management

• Cleaning multi-user breast pumps
• How to keep your breast pump kit clean (CDC resource)  English  |  Spanish
• Multi-user pump assessment chart
• Troubleshooting pump problems
• Breast Pump Training - Part 1 (Video)
• Breast Pump Training - Part 2 (Video)
• 2021-2022 Pump Training (PDF)

Third party partnerships

• Third party partnerships: Protocol for loaning WIC breast pumps
• Sample breast pump partnership agreement for third party partnerships (Word)

Breastfeeding coordinator resources

General information

• Position description and key duties (appendix A from policy 710)
• WIC breastfeeding policies

Lactation continuing education for breastfeeding coordinators

(paid by state WIC office)

• Registering for LER (Lactation Education Resource) course

IBCLC exam

(paid by state WIC office)

• How to become an IBCLC
• Applying for state WIC reimbursement for IBCLC exam fee (Word)

Other websites providing lactation continuing education

(including CERPs and CEU)

• IABLE - Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding & Lactation Education (LactEd)
• LER - Lactation Education Resources
• GOLD - GOLD Lactation
• USBC - United States Breastfeeding Committee
• iLactation

• Counseling the Nursing Mother (Judith Lauwers & Anna Swisher) (state sent copy to local agencies in 2016)

• Breastfeeding and Human Lactation (loan available from state WIC office)
• The Breastfeeding Atlas - Barbara Wilson-Clay (loan available from state WIC office)
• Core Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Lactation Care (loan available from state WIC office)
• Comprehensive Lactation Consultant Exam Review - Linda Smith (loan available from state WIC office)

Meeting notes and references

• Meeting minutes
• Breastfeeding promotion efforts in Coos County