Child care professionals with breastfeeding knowledge and supportive practices can increase the length of time babies are breastfed, leading to better health for moms and babies.
Breastfeeding in Child Care Toolkit
Toolkit resources
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Tips for Starting your Breastfed Baby in Child Care – a toolkit for parents/guardians | Spanish.
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Breastfeeding-Friendly Child Care Self-Assessment
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Colorado breastfeeding laws (bilingual).
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Child Care Breast Milk Storage Guidelines (bilingual).
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Paced bottle feeding handout (bilingual).
Toolkit training
For partners
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Webinar: Breastfeeding in Child Care Toolkit Training - a train-the-trainer webinar for partners.
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Partner slide deck: Breastfeeding in Child Care Toolkit Training Presentation for Partners - a presentation for partners to adapt and use to train child care professionals.
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Spanish toolkit training webinar and slides to adapt and use to train providers.
For child care providers
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Supporting Breastfeeding in Child Care - interactive online breastfeeding training module available for:
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Child care professionals - PDIS (Professional Development Information System) - Colorado Shines training site for early childhood professionals. Search “breastfeeding” in the Course Catalog.
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CO.TRAIN - Colorado’s Learning Management System. Search “breastfeeding” or course ID 1079357.
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Guidance for child care professionals
Breastfeeding information for child care professionals
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Breastfeeding - national guidelines and recommendations, handling and storage, policies, FAQs and more.
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Healthy Childcare – information on infant feeding and diapering.
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Office on Women’s Health (OWH) - general breastfeeding information, pumping tips and employer information, including the Business Case for Breastfeeding toolkit. Call the OWH Helpline at 1-800-994-9662 or visit.
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Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine - helpful information and protocols on breast milk benefits, storage, and more.
National standards on quality health and safety practices and policies for child care professionals:
- Stepping Stones to Caring for Our Children.
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Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI) – materials and handouts for child care professionals.
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InfaNET- Infant nutrition for child care providers.
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Boulder County - breastfeeding toolkits, materials, and local resources.
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Let’s Move Child Care - useful breastfeeding and infant feeding materials.
Handouts for families
- Education Resources – free downloadable handouts for parents in English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Vietnamese.
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WIC Works Resource System – free downloadable handouts for parents on breastfeeding and nutrition.
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Colorado WIC - breastfeeding handouts.
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Feeding Cues handouts.
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BreastfeedLA – handouts in multiple languages.
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Paced bottle feeding handout – Lactation Education Resources.
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Hunger cues – Lactation Education Resources.
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Hunger cues - KellyMom.
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Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI) – education and reference materials for child care centers.
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Parent’s Guide to Breastfeeding and Child Care Centers - InfaNET.
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KellyMom – Professional Handouts.
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Nutrition.gov – breastfeeding handouts.
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Spanish for Breastfeeding Support – resources and handouts.
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American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) – Bright Futures resources and handouts for families.
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MedlinePlus – Breastfeeding information in multiple languages.
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Breastfeeding FAQs – Talking Points on Mothers’ Frequently Asked Questions about Nursing.
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Solid foods.
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Starting solid foods – AAP parent education handouts.
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Colorado breastfeeding laws – Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition.
Communicating with families
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extension – Child care resources.
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Zero to Three – How to Communicate with Parents.
Baby behavior
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How to calm a crying baby.
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Video: How to Calm a Crying Baby.
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Video: Crying.
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Feeding cues.
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Video: Baby Cues.
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Video: Is my baby full?
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Additional breastfeeding training options
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5210 Let’s Go! – Supporting Breastfeeding Families: A Guide for Child Care Providers.
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Creating a Breastfeeding Friendly Child Care Facility Training Modules – Florida Health.
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Supporting Breastfeeding in the Child Care Setting – Texas A&M.
Additional resources
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National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care.
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Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine protocol on human milk storage.
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How to Support Breastfeeding Mothers at Work and Child Care: A Simple Guide for Child Care Providers.
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Seeking Support for Breastfeeding at Work and Child Care: A Parent Guide.
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Colorado child care breastfeeding standards and best practices.
Pumping and feeding
Paced bottle feeding
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Video: Paced Bottle Feeding, Breastfeeding Success.
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Video: Paced Bottle Feeding Best Feeding Lactation Services LLC.
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Video: Spanish - Alimentar a un Bebé, Boulder County Public Health.
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Handouts.
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Lactation Education Resources (bilingual).
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Paced bottle feeding handout (bilingual).
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Pumping breast milk, breast massage, hand expression
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Breast Pumps.
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Breast massage and hand expression.
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Video: Milk expression tips.
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Video: Pumping Strategies: Maximizing Your Output – breast massage.
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Video: The Basics of Breast Massage and Hand Expression (Spanish subtitles).
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Stanford Medicine
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Video: Hand expression.
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Video: Maximizing milk production.
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Marmet Technique of hand expression videos.
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Starting solid foods
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American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Starting solid foods – parent education handouts.
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Is baby ready for solid foods? - KellyMom.
Education and promotion
Breastfeeding posters
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Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI) – education and reference materials for child care centers.
Breastfeeding toys and books
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Toys and activities.
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Nursing Nana (dog and puppies), Nursing Nuna (pig and piglets), Nursing Nina (cat and kittens) – Manhattan Toy.
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Videos and Breastfeeding coloring books – Noodle Soup, Inc. and others.
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Books.
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My New Baby – by Rachel Fuller.
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If My Mom Were a Platypus: Mammal Babies and Their Mothers – by Dia L. Michels.
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Mama’s Milk – by Michael Elsohn Ross. (Available in Spanish.)
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Supermom and The World is Full of Babies! – by Mick Manning.
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What Baby Needs and Baby on the Way – by William Sears MD and Martha Sears RN.
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We Like to Nurse – by Chia Martin.
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Best Milk – by Kate Carothers.
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Helpful links
Colorado breastfeeding friendly recognition programs
Find a breastfeeding friendly child care professional.
Breastfeeding in the workplace
Policies, information, lactation space ideas, etc. for employers.