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Quick Lactation Tips for Moms with Infants in NICU

By Heather Telesko FNP-C, CPLC

August 3, 2021

The Baylor All Saints NICU in Fort Worth, TX is a Level III, 61 bed unit. Here are some lactation tips for moms with infants in the Baylor NICU.

Getting Your Breast Pump

Hospital grade breast pump parts and supplies are provided by Baylor, hospital grade breast pumps are available to rent in Magnolia Boutique: rentals are often covered by insurance

Hospital Grade Breast Pump Scenarios: 

  • Cash Pay, (can be reimbursed by most insurances), $75 a month
  • Infant NICU stay up to 2 weeks: hospital grade Medela pump covered for 3 months
  • Infant NICU stay: 2 months plus/micro-preemie: hospital grade Medela pump covered for 1 year

Alternative: Personal pump mailed to your home 

While in the NICU

Practice Kangaroo Care as often as possible by holding your baby skin to skin in NICU 

Pump at the bedside in NICU, Baylor now has 24/7 video monitoring so you can watch your baby from home or your hospital room!

Hold “lovies” provided by NICU when pumping at home, bring them back to NICU and place in babies cot or incubator, your baby knows your smell! 

If baby is unable to breastfeed, pump every 2-3 hours if possible.

Donor milk is available at Baylor.

Utilize Baylor lactation specialists, they are amazing! 

I encourage all patients to have your post-partum nurse release your “lactation consult” order.

They will provide lactation materials and feeding logs, assist with latch and position if able to breastfeed right away, and educate you on use of hospital-grade breast pumps

Heading Home

Write down your questions/notes, you may forget when you go home! 

Above all, have grace on yourself!

Breastfeeding is FULL-TIME job and formula is a wonderful substitution. Sometimes the decision to not breastfeed at all, or stop breastfeeding/pumping comes along. Remember, you have

Don’t ever forget, you are a FĒNOMENAL mom, no matter how your baby is fed!

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About Heather Telesko FNP-C, CPLC

Heather Telesko is a Family Nurse Practitioner, American Heart Association Certified Instructor, and former Labor and Delivery nurse at Baylor All Saints and FĒNOM Women's Care. She is passionate about using her clinical experience to empower patients through education.

When she is not seeing patients in our FĒNOM offices, she enjoys teaching and spending time with her husband and two boys.

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