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Lactation-friendly child care

Early childhood teachers and providers with lactation knowledge and supportive practices can increase the length of time babies are breastfed, leading to better health for parents and babies.

Lactation-friendly child care toolkits, resources, training and recognition

Become officially recognized as a lactation-friendly location by implementing written policies and practices outlined in the lactation-friendly toolkits.

Toolkits that provide information on how to support moms and breastfeeding in the community.

For Early Childhood Centers and Family Child Care Homes

Many toolkit resources are available in English and Spanish.

Adaptable community resources template.
Colorado lactation laws
Child Care Breast Milk Storage Guidelines
  • Bilingual. (PDF, Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition)
Federal laws
Feeding Plan
Lactation-Friendly Action Plan
Lactation-Friendly Child Care Self-Assessment 
Lactation-Friendly Sample Policy
Paced bottle feeding handout
Tips for Starting your Breastfed Baby in Child Care: A toolkit for parents/guardians

Supporting Breastfeeding in Child Care

Supporting Breastfeeding in Child Care offers free, interactive online lactation training for any early childhood teacher.

Webinar
Partner slide deck
Spanish toolkit

Guidance for early childhood educators

How to calm a crying baby
Feeding cues
Infant Development

Human milk storage
Paced bottle-feeding videos
Handouts

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
  • The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine website provides helpful information and protocols on breast milk benefits, storage, and more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Office on Women’s Health 
 

Food and nutrition guidelines for all stages of child development

Developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

Feeding Cues handouts
Solid foods
Colorado laws

Additional breastfeeding training options

Additional resources

Pumping and feeding

Paced bottle-feeding videos
Handouts

Breast Pumps
Breast massage and hand expression
Videos
Stanford Medicine
Marmet Technique of hand expression

Starting solid foods

Education and promotion

Breastfeeding toys and books
Books
  • My New Baby
    • Author: Rachel Fuller
  • If My Mom Were a Platypus: Mammal Babies and Their Mothers
    • Author: Dia L. Michels
  • Mama's Milk/Mama Me Alimenta
    • Author: Michael Elsohn Ross
  • Supermom and The World is Full of Babies!
    • Author: Mick Manning
  • What Baby Needs and Baby on the Way
    • Author: William Sears MD and Martha Sears RN
  • We Like to Nurse
    • Author: Chia Martin
  • Best Milk
    • Author: Kate Carothers, RN, IBCLC

Helpful links

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