Breastfeeding & Lactation

Questions about breastfeeding? Kettering Health Network offers Lactation Consultants on site.

Benefits of Breastfeeding

Benefits to your baby:

Provides your baby the best food
Less ear infections
Less allergies and asthma
Less childhood obesity
Less childhood diabetes
Less childhood leukemia
Higher IQ scores
Calms and soothes fussiness

Benefits to the mother:

Less chance for breast cancer
Less chance for ovarian cancer
Less chance for diabetes
Convenient
Economical (free)

First Steps Program

If you are experiencing any difficulty following your hospital stay, please call (937) 401-6881 immediately.

We can help with issues such as:

Difficult or painful latching
Nipple or breast pain during or after nursing
Baby eating less than 8 times in a 24 hour period & less than 10 minutes per feeding
Baby not having yellow & seedy bowel movements and 6-8 wet diapers per day by day 5
Noticing a lack of milk production
Breasts should feel full before feedings and softer after feedings
Baby is not swallowing frequently while feeding
Engorgement
Breasts are hard and painful
Painful, hot, firm area on breast

Kettering Medical Center
3535 Southern Blvd
Kettering, OH 45429
Labor & Delivery
(937) 395-8636
Mother Baby Unit
(937) 395-8641
Childbirth Education
(937) 395-8600

Southview Medical Center
1997 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd
Dayton, OH 45459
(937) 401-6850
Childbirth Education
(937) 401-6444

Soin Medical Center
3535 Pentagon Blvd
Beavercreek, OH 45431
Labor and Delivery
(937) 702-4300
Mother Baby Unit
(937) 702-4370
Childbirth Education
(937) 395-8600

Fort Hamilton Hospital
630 Eaton Ave
Hamilton, OH 45013
Family Birth Place
(513) 867-2229
Childbirth Education
(513) 867-2222

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