Breastfeeding Your Baby with Special Needs

Benefits of Nursing Your Baby with Special Needs – La Leche League 
(These pages have been reprinted with permission from LLLI publications. Articles are listed with the most current published or revised items first.)

• Breastfeeding Babies with Special Needs - La Leche League
• Breastfeeding a Premature Baby
  • Premature Birth - March of Dimes
  • Breastfeeding Premature Infants - La Leche League
• Breastfeeding a baby with Cleft Lip or Palate - March of Dimes
• Breastfeeding a baby with Down Syndrome -  La Leche League

Where to Call for Help  

WHO Guidance to Breastfeeding and COVID-19 - FAQs

COVID-19 Breastfeeding Resources - Oklahoma and National

Oklahoma Breastfeeding Hotline - New Texting Option!

Oklahoma Breastfeeding Hotline
Línea de Oklahoma Lactancia Materna
24 Hour Toll-Free Breastfeeding Support Line for nursing mothers, their families, partners, expecting parents, and healthcare providers. All calls returned by an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).
1-877-271-MILK (6455)

For More Resources

• Oklahoma Family Network
  Informs and connects those with special health care needs and disabilities, their families and professionals to services and support in their communities.
• SoonerStart
  Oklahoma's early intervention program designed to meet the needs of infants and toddlers aged birth to 36 months, with disabilities and developmental delays.
• Oklahoma Moms of Multiples
• Dial 211 for statewide referrals and information
• SoonerSuccess provides resources, support & referrals for OK Children & Youth (Birth - 21) with Special Needs  1-877-441-0434
• Le Leche League in Oklahoma
• La Leche League International
• Supporting Feeding & Oral Development in Young Children
  Guidelines for Parents - Down Syndrome Ireland

• The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center
  • Lactation Center
  • Breastfeeding Clinic (405) 271-9494
  • Women's and Newborn Services
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• INTEGRIS Baptist Lactation Services (405) 949-3254
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) (405) 949-3393
• Mercy Birthplace (405) 755-1515

• Hillcrest Medical Center – Peggy V. Helmerich Women's Health Center (918) 579-8018
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (918) 579-8000  
• The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit  (918) 502-6550 
  • MILK Line (918) 494-6455
•  St. John's Health System - Breastfeeding Center  (918) 744-2681

• Norman Regional Health System - Women's and Children's Services
  • Lactation Consultants (405) 515-3532
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• The Children's Center - Bethany (405) 789-2681
• J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities – Norman  (405) 307-2837

Mothers' Milk Banks screen donors and collect, process, and dispense donor human milk, which is prescribed by health care providers to help preterm and fragile infants thrive.

• The Oklahoma Mothers' Milk Bank (OMMB), located at 901 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 330, in Oklahoma City, began dispensing pasteurized milk in August 2013, and now is officially operating as the 13th milk bank in the U.S.!
• The Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) is partnering with the OMMB to assist in operations. The milk bank is located in OBI's new building, which provides a central location for delivering milk statewide and will benefit from OBI's on-site donor screening, statewide courier service, and locations around the state for housing of milk depots.
• OMMB supplies pasteurized donor milk primarily to hospitals in Oklahoma, though requests from hospitals in the surrounding region will be considered.
• Oklahoma Mothers' Milk Bank promotional video
• Contact Information
  405-297-LOVE (5683)
  
  info@okmilkbank.org
  

Human Milk Banking Association of North America