Breastfeeding Works!

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Health Care Reform) provides new rights for nursing mothers on the job. Check out our page on the new legal provisions.

Handouts & products

Purchase our new Breastfeeding Welcome Here products, and show the world that nursing moms are welcome where you are!

Download one of our handouts that help make breastfeeding easy. Most are available in multiple languages, and they're perfect for both mothers and medical providers.

Making Milk is Easy

First Hug

It's my birthday,
give me a hug!

Breasts don't come
with instructions!

Discharge
instructions

Breastfeeding
checklist

Nature's secret: Give only the breast

Our new high quality 11x17 posters tell moms that exclusive breastfeeding is "Nature's secret to keep your milk flowing." Developed using our own market research in Latina mothers, the posters reflect important values and concerns identified in our interviews. Available in Spanish and English.

Get your License to Breastfeed

Breastfeeding is perfectly legal in most public places in Massachusetts. Is someone giving you a hard time? Just show them your "License to Breastfeed" which informs them of your right to breastfeed. It's available to download and purchase right here.

Reducing Health Care Disparities by Incentivizing Breastfeeding

The Surgeon General and the CDC recognize significant disparities in breastfeeding rates with lower income populations and African-American women breastfeeding at lower rates. Increasing breastfeeding rates in the US will save money and lives. Learn how.

Fight Formula Marketing

Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition has helped start a national initiative to eliminate hospital distribution of formula marketing materials, Ban the Bags.

In the News

UK Study on Infant Temperament May Simply Reflect Poor Breastfeeding Support

January 12, 2012 — A study out of Cambridge UK by de Lauzon-Guilain et al found that exclusively breastfed infants in the county of Cambridgeshire were rated by their mothers to laugh less, cry more, and be more irritable than their formula-fed or mixed-fed counterparts. These results have puzzled and surprised many who do research in breastfeeding. These surprising [...]

UMass Memorial cuts lactation staff

November 11, 2011 — Worcster, MA– UMass Memorial Medical is elminating all of its nurse-IBCLCs, effective Dec 1, in favor of fewer IBCLCs and more lesser-trained personnel. For more details, click above to read the letter the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition sent to UMass.

CDC Announces New Effort to Boost Number of Baby-Friendly Hospitals

October 13, 2011 — Atlanta– The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded nearly $6 million over three years to the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality to help hospitals nationwide make quality improvements to maternity care to better support mothers and babies to be able to breastfeed. The goal of the project is to accelerate the number of U.S. Baby-Friendly hospitals. Read more in the news release.