UR Medicine Breastfeeding & Lactation Services

UR Medicine Breastfeeding & Lactation Services UR Medicine Breastfeeding & Lactation Services are dedicated to helping you reach your breastfeeding and/or lactation goals.

We support all parents in their choices around their child's feeding journey, and would love to be there for you in yours!

The words we use in healthcare matter.For a family navigating pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding, being able to receive...
09/08/2026

The words we use in healthcare matter.

For a family navigating pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding, being able to receive information and ask questions in a language they understand isn't an extra—it is part of receiving good care.

For Latino families, culturally responsive lactation care means more than translating a handout. It means creating space for language, culture, family traditions, and individual experiences to be part of the conversation.

Language justice is healthcare justice.

That means making breastfeeding education accessible, providing qualified interpretation when needed, and recognizing that there is no single “Latino” breastfeeding experience. Families come from many countries and cultures, speak many languages and dialects, and bring their own traditions and expectations to infant feeding.

This September, we celebrate the roots of love that shape how families care for and nourish their children—and the importance of making sure every family can access the information and support they need, in a language they understand.

Raíces de Amor: Lactancia con Orgullo y Poder.
Roots of Love: Breastfeeding with Pride and Power.

👩🏾‍💼What does a breastfeeding-friendly workplace actually look like? It looks like more than a room with a chair and a d...
09/01/2026

👩🏾‍💼What does a breastfeeding-friendly workplace actually look like? It looks like more than a room with a chair and a door!

At the UR Medicine, employees who need to express milk during the workday are entitled to reasonable paid break time, and the University provides private spaces for expressing milk across its campuses and clinical sites. This support extends to faculty, staff, residents, fellows, postdoctoral trainees, and student employees.

This year, our division also assisted in the development of an interactive, University-wide Employee Lactation Spaces Map! This makes it easier for employees to find a private place to pump or express milk wherever they work. Some locations even have hospital-grade pumps available for employee use.

These details really matter.

Because supporting lactation at work isn't simply about accommodating a pump. It's about creating a workplace where employees don't have to choose between their work and their infant feeding goals. 💞

If you are looking for assistance in planning your return to work, creating a pumping schedule, or helping your baby learn to take a bottle, please reach out to us at Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine! We are more than happy to support you.
Call us at 585-276-MILK or schedule a telemed on our website: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/childrens-hospital/breastfeeding-lactation-medicine

A little time away from work, together as a team. 🐐🐄💚Our Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine Division recently gathered...
08/29/2026

A little time away from work, together as a team. 🐐🐄💚

Our Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine Division recently gathered at Kaizen Ridge Farm for a divisional outing—and we brought our families along for the fun! Our division is made up of so many people working together to advance breastfeeding and lactation care: medical staff and providers, administrators, researchers, and trainees. It was wonderful to step away from our usual routines and spend time together as a whole team.

And, of course, the animals were a huge hit. Adults and kids alike got to meet the farm's animals, and some very lucky visitors even had the chance to bottle-feed baby goats and calves! 🍼🐐🐄

We're grateful for the opportunity to build connections not only as colleagues, but as people—and to share a little of that connection with the families who make our team who we are.

📸 A few favorites from our day below!

Learning, connecting, and bringing the work forward. 💜Our Division Chief, Dr. Casey Rosen-Carole, is in New Orleans this...
08/28/2026

Learning, connecting, and bringing the work forward. 💜

Our Division Chief, Dr. Casey Rosen-Carole, is in New Orleans this week for the ROSE & ROBE 15th Anniversary Breastfeeding & Birth Justice Summit, joining lactation professionals, birth workers, clinicians, researchers, parents, advocates, and community leaders from across the country.

This year's summit, “The 92%: Breastfeeding, Power & Birth Justice,” creates space to examine the history and systems that shape breastfeeding and birth experiences—and, importantly, to share community-led approaches for creating meaningful change.

We are so grateful for opportunities like this to learn from leaders and communities at the forefront of breastfeeding equity and birth justice, build connections beyond our own institution, and bring new ideas back to our work here in Rochester!

Black Breastfeeding Week began with a simple idea: Black families deserve to see their experiences, culture, and leaders...
08/25/2026

Black Breastfeeding Week began with a simple idea: Black families deserve to see their experiences, culture, and leadership centered in the breastfeeding conversation.

Fifteen years ago, Kimberly Seals Allers, Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka, and Kiddada Green came together to create Black Breastfeeding Week—a week dedicated to celebrating the breastfeeding journeys of Black families while bringing greater visibility to the unique experiences and challenges within Black breastfeeding communities.

More than a decade later, Black Breastfeeding Week has grown into an annual celebration of Black families, culture, community, and the Black parents, clinicians, researchers, advocates, and leaders who continue to shape the field of lactation.

This year's theme, “We All We Got,” highlights the power of community and collective care. This week, we celebrate the vision behind Black Breastfeeding Week and the many people who continue to carry that work forward.

Black Breastfeeding Week | August 25–31

What does breastfeeding support look like when your workplace can move you across the country—or even across the world?F...
08/22/2026

What does breastfeeding support look like when your workplace can move you across the country—or even across the world?

For military families, lactation doesn't happen in a vacuum. Deployments, training schedules, frequent moves, changing healthcare systems, and time away from home can all shape how a family experiences feeding their baby.

The Global Military Lactation Community has spent the past decade working to address these challenges and advocate for meaningful support for military families. This year, their Military Lactation Celebration marks a Decade of Dedication—10 years of volunteers, advocates, and military families working to make lactation support more accessible across commands and continents. You can learn more about the organization of this at https://globalmilcom.org/

Military families shouldn't have to choose between serving their country and meeting their infant feeding goals. This week, we recognize the families navigating lactation while serving, the partners supporting them from home, and the advocates working to make military systems more supportive of infant feeding.

Military Lactation Celebration | August 22–24, 2026

During world breastfeeding week, we had a meet the team event so that all of our colleagues could get to know what we’ve...
08/21/2026

During world breastfeeding week, we had a meet the team event so that all of our colleagues could get to know what we’ve been doing as a division! We had free food and friendly faces all around. 🥰 An awesome opportunity to share the national and international research, policy, and clinical care progress we’ve been involved in! 🤓💫

August is such a fun month for us as we get to throw all the celebrations. 🎉🥳 We even have a milkshake day for our staff...
08/17/2026

August is such a fun month for us as we get to throw all the celebrations. 🎉🥳 We even have a milkshake day for our staff! 🥤 Who doesn’t love a good milk shake with all the fixings?

This week, we recognize Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Breastfeeding Week, with this yea...
08/17/2026

This week, we recognize Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Breastfeeding Week, with this year’s theme: “Better Data, Better Care for AANHPI Families.”

AANHPI communities are incredibly diverse, representing many cultures, languages, traditions, and lived experiences. Yet these communities are often grouped together in research and health data, which can make important differences in breastfeeding experiences and outcomes difficult to see.

Better data can help us understand where barriers exist, whose voices are missing, and what support families actually need! Better data leads to better questions. Better questions lead to better care.

As a Division of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine, we are committed to listening to families, recognizing the diversity within our communities, and advancing culturally responsive, evidence-based lactation care.

This week, we celebrate AANHPI families and the advocates working toward more equitable breastfeeding support for all. Check out the official Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week page for programming - there's a webinar on data equity coming up on Tuesday!

So happy to see this work formalized!
08/13/2026

So happy to see this work formalized!

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