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Lactation Stations

Stores and Centers Dedicated to Breastfeeding Success

By Teri Brown

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The Lactation Resource Store offers services for pre- and postnatal care, as well as infant massage classes and weekly new mom support groups. The store offers a complete line of nursing bras, supplies, pumps, nursing pillows, books, baby carriers, nursing clothing and diaper bags, as well as breast pump and scale rentals. Call it a one-stop lactation station. Parlapiano feels such centers can help change the face of health care for women.

"Lactation centers such as ours further not only the cause of breastfeeding, but also women's health, infant health, environmental health and society as a whole," she says. "By their existence, lactation resource centers have proven that there is a need for this type of service and creating a niche in the business world that previously did not exist. Thus, breastfeeding gets the public and business exposure that it well deserves."

Centers affiliated with a hospital and those that are not run very differently. Hospital centers have access to a wider range of medical services and professionals. Independent centers run like small businesses and are not under the same restrictions and formality that hospital centers are.

Reflecting the Future
Misako Miller, RN, IBCLC, coordinator of the lactation resource center at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside,
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