Lactation Services
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If you are a new patient seeking prenatal care, please call 310-794-7274. If you are an established patient and need to reach labor and delivery, call 310-825-9111 for Westwood or 424-259-9250 for Santa Monica.
We offer the following services:
Prenatal Education: An overview of breastfeeding education here. We also offer live prenatal classes on breastfeeding, baby care, childbirth, and CPR.
Prenatal Counseling: Lactation visits are offered via video with an Internationally Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) when referred by a UCLA OB provider and delivering at our hospitals.
Staff Training: All perinatal hospital staff working with new parents have had additional training to support breastfeeding in the hospital after your baby’s birth.
Inpatient Lactation Consultation: Both hospitals have IBCLCs to provide in hospital breastfeeding support.
NICU Breastfeeding Support: Ongoing Lactation support for our NICU families
Discharge Planning: All families are welcomed to schedule a follow up phone call to help with breastfeeding.
Outpatient Lactation Consultation: The UCLA Lactation Program offers private lactation visits with UCLA Health’s lactation consultants. Lactation visits are offered by video and in person Santa Monica by appointment with provider referral.
Lactation Program (English) | Lactation Program (Spanish)
Support Groups: Free weekly support groups led by an IBCLC to address common concerns.
For more information, please call the BirthPlace lactation office at 424-259-8248.