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Lactation Services

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(816) 346-1309
Contact Us
(816) 346-1309

The Lactation Management Team is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of children by meeting the needs of mothers and babies. The team promotes, educates, supports and assists all mothers who are providing breastmilk. The team will encourage initiation and maintenance of breastmilk, as this is the optimal nutrition for all babies, especially ill or preterm infants.

Lactation Consultants practice at the Children’s Mercy Adele Hall campus and Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas, both inpatient and outpatient area. 

Pumping rooms


Children's Mercy provides several pumping rooms for mothers. The rooms are available to all breastfeeding mothers with children at Children's Mercy.

Outpatient at Children's Mercy Adele Hall campus

  • Same-day surgery waiting room

  • 3rd Floor by outpatient clinics

  • Near Security by Subway® (Main Campus)

  • By Boardroom (near SCAN and Surgery Clinic)

Inpatient

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is equipped with a designated room that consists of three separate stalls with privacy curtains. Each is equipped with a Medela Symphony breast pump. The room has a sink, towels and bottles. Inpatient rooms have availability of a Symphony Pump to be brought to the room of the patient. These pumps are intended to be shared between rooms. They are cleaned when transferred to another room.

Our lactation consultants talk with mothers at the bedside, by phone, during outpatient appointments in various Children’s Mercy Clinics and by scheduled outpatient lactation consultations. Many mothers and babies have a successful lactation experience. However, at Children's Mercy, we realize that some mothers and babies need special clinical assistance and education to achieve this same goal.

We assist with common mother/baby concerns as well as issues including:

  • Mother/baby separation

  • Dysfunctional suck

  • Slow weight gain

  • Engorgement

  • Low milk supply 

  • Prematurity

  • Cardiac defect

  • Neurological impairment

  • Twins/triplets

  • Cleft lip/cleft palate

  • Down Syndrome

The following resources offer support for breastfeeding moms.

Breastfeeding is one of the most important things you can do for your baby. Below are resources to provide you support:

Successfully making and keeping a milk supply for your baby can be stressful and emotional. We've put together these resources to help you:

The decision or need to stop providing breast milk is also difficult and we want to support you in this process with the resources below:

How you eat can affect how good you feel and your ability to make milk. This resource will help in making nutritious choices:

Some medications that you take can go into your breast milk and affect your baby. Use these resources as well as your health care provider in making decisions about taking medications, including supplements:

 

Breast pain can be emotionally draining and stressful. It can contribute to difficulties with pumping and feeding at the breast. 

Below are resource to help new moms with breast pain and other common problems they may encounter after giving birth:

Please contact your health care provider for breast pain that is persistent and that concerns you.

Children's Mercy Kansas City
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Lactation Services