Breastfeeding support
Get personalized breastfeeding support from Board-certified lactation consultants. We offer both virtual appts using your phone or device and in-person appointments.
Virtual breastfeeding consultations
Intermountain Health offers secure video and phone consultations with experienced lactation consultants to make breastfeeding an easier and more positive experience from latching on to milk supply. Discover the advantages of our virtual lactation consultations:
- Receive real-time guidance and personalized recommendations
- Access a wide range of valuable digital resources
- Enjoy a seamless extension of our in-person care
Mary's story
"As the days progressed, I started feeling more and more pain. My consultant sat with me for over an hour and watched my latch and talked with me through options to help with my pain. I am very grateful for this service.
Breastfeeding resources
Explore these breastfeeding resources to find personalized care for you and your baby.
Breastfeeding offers several benefits for both moms and babies.
For babies, breastfeeding provides:
- Optimal nutrition
- Immune system support
- Reduces the risk of allergies
- Improves digestive health
For moms, breastfeeding helps with:
- Emotional bonding
- Postpartum recovery
- Weight loss
As a bonus, breastfeeding is cost-effective, saving families the expense of formula. Plus, it's convenient when you're on the go.
- Living and Learning Together: A Guide to Breastfeeding
- All-purpose Nipple Ointment
- Infant formula basics
- Breast milk production, stopping
- Breast pumping while your baby is in the hospital
- Breastfeeding and Opioid Pain Medication
- Breastfeeding and Potentially Harmful Substances
- Breast Pumping Record
- Breastfeeding Your Baby in the NICU
- Breastfeeding Your Sleepy Baby
- Breastfeeding Your Twins
- Breastfeeding: Benefits for your baby and you
- Breastfeeding: Easing Sore Nipples
- Breastfeeding: Increasing milk production
- Breastfeeding: Pumping Milk for Your Baby in the NICU
- Breastfeeding: Supplementing at the Breast
- Breastfeeding: Taking care of yourself
- Breastfeeding: Using a Nipple Shield
- Breastfeeding: Working with your Health Insurance to Get a Breast Pump
- Managing Breast Pain and Mastitis
- Pasteurized Human Breast Milk
- Una guía para la lactancia materna
- Conceptos básicos de fórmula infantil
- Detener la producción de leche materna
- Extracción de leche materna durante la hospitalización de su bebé
- La lactancia materna y los medicamentos opioides para el dolor
- La lactancia y las sustancias potencialmente dañinas
- Lactancia materna: registro de extracción de leche
- Amamantando a su recién nacido en la NICU
- Cómo dar de lactar a su bebé somnoliento
- Amamantar a sus mellizos
- Lactancia materna: beneficios para usted y su bebé
- Lactancia materna: aliviar los pezones adoloridos
- Lactancia: cómo aumentar la producción de leche
- Lactancia materna: Extraer leche para su bebé que está en la NICU
- Lactancia materna: suplementación al pecho
- Lactancia materna: cómo cuidarse usted misma
- Amamantando: uso de un protector de pezón
- Lactancia materna: Cómo conseguir una bomba succionadora de leche con su seguro de salud
- Control del dolor mamario y la mastitis
- Leche materna humana pasteurizada
- BF benefits part 1
- BF benefits part 2
- BF benefits part 3
- BF benefits part 4
- BF benefits part 5
- How to change a painful latch
- Feeding patterns
- Benefit of skin to skin
- How to wake a sleepy baby
- Supply and demand
- How to calm a fussy baby
- How a pacifier can effect BF
- How breastmilk is made
- How long do I feed my baby
- Benefits of colostrum
- Rooming in
- Hand expression
Breastfeeding Tips
Watch How to Start Breastfeeding: Top Tips from a Lactation Consultant
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