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COVID and Breastfeeding Resources
Our Top COVID-19 and Breastfeeding Resources for You Throughout the pandemic, Healthy Horizons has been by your side with chest and breastfeeding resources to help keep you updated. We've covered everything from the health, safety, and legal aspects of chest and breastfeeding during this unprecedented time. We continually update the resources we've created and found, curating a one-stop space for new parents to get the most relevant information. Helpful Articles Your COVID-19 Work...
Mom Hack: Plan Your Holiday Road Trip
Mom Hack: Plan Your Holiday Road Trip As we prepare to visit family and partake in holiday traditions, planning around how to get there with baby is also an important piece of the puzzle. Like many families, ours will be traveling this holiday season by taking to the road to visit grandparents and relatives. Before you start that road trip, make sure your car is packed and ready for babies and toddlers! Before leaving make sure your baby's and toddler's car seat is installed proper...
What Does a Comprehensive Corporate Breastfeeding Program Look Like?
Comprehensive Corporate Breastfeeding Program Many companies have implemented corporate breastfeeding programs because both the company and the employees benefit. It is also an attractive work life balance benefit to retain employees. The return in cost savings and employee productivity is worth the investment. You may be thinking of implementing or expanding upon and existing breastfeeding program at your company. But other than providing a simple room for a mother to pump milk, there are al...
A Mother’s Area For Small Businesses: San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace
San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace This past June, San Francisco, California passed the Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance that gives additional protections to breastfeeding mothers in the workplace. In addition to requiring employers to provide a reasonable amount of break time for a mother to pump milk, it also set specific requirements for lactation areas and policies. Designating a lactation area for a small business can be challenging, especially for businesses in multi-tenant b...
Why Buy a Hospital Grade Breastpump For Your Employees?
You have a comfortable mother’s room with all the amenities including private pumping stations, a refrigerator, and sink available for your employees at your family friendly company. Portable electric pumps are covered through your company’s health insurance plan, so you’re probably thinking that mothers have everything they need to pump breastmilk at work. However, there is one more item you can provide that will benefit your company and make a positive difference to mothers at work who pump...
Promoting Your Corporate Lactation Program
Promoting Your Corporate Lactation Program Internal Promotion of Benefits and Wellness Programs Your company knows that there are many benefits to having a corporate lactation program. You have a mother’s room, flexible break options, education, and support for breastfeeding mothers. However your employees need to know what your company is offering them in order for the company and employees to benefit! Once you have your program in place, you’ll need to promote it to ensure a broad range of ...
Finding The Right Nursing Bra
Finding The Right Nursing Bra Shopping for a bra is not a favorite pastime among most women. It’s often a frustrating and time consuming process to find a comfortable bra that fits well. It’s even more daunting when a new mom is expecting and trying to figure out what bra to get. Or for a mom who has delivered her baby and has found that the bra she wore during pregnancy no longer fits. In addition, many women wind up wearing the wrong bra size. For nursing mothers, getting a bra that fits c...
Measuring Your Lactation Program’s Success
Measuring Your Lactation Program's Success Now that you have your lactation program in place, you will need to determine the value and progress of your program to see the return on the investment. This will help quantify the success of your lactation program to ensure continued support and funding. Collecting data and documenting it will help develop a process of ongoing improvement to the program. You can set up a process for getting employee feedback, data, and evaluating the process f...
Why Wait Until 6 Months For Solids?
Why Wait Until 6 Months For Solids? It’s a common question we get from moms with infants less than 6 months old in our breastfeeding centers. Can I start my baby on solids now? Parents are often told it’s time to give solids from grandparents and relatives who started their babies on solids at an earlier age. However, the latest recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, and many other organizations say that all babies should be exclusively breast...
Ask Sheila: Nursing a Premature Baby
Nursing a Premature Baby Kim H. asks, "I have been on bed rest since I was 22 weeks pregnant and now at 32 weeks my OB feels I may be delivering soon. How can I make sure I have breastmilk for my baby if she is born premature and has to stay in the hospital nursery?" A: If she is born early you can help to ensure that your milk supply will come in as fast as possible by starting to do hand expression or hand pumping right after the birth. It is recommended that you begin using a ho...
Building Your Corporate Nursing Mothers Support Group
One great way to support the nursing mothers in your company is to have a support group. Many companies have social groups, such as a Parent’s Network, that supports the employees in the company with similar interests or needs. Having a group for nursing mothers with a small amount of funding for activities like a speaker, information sessions, or even a group get-together can really help mothers transition and be productive in the workplace. Supporting a corporate nursing mothers group is a ...
The Top Breastfeeding Concerns & How Employers Can Help
Breastfeeding Concerns & How Employers Can Help Many working mothers who breastfeed have concerns that impact their decisions with respect to breastfeeding and working. Once your company has a lactation program in place, mothers need to access to the lactation program policy, benefit offerings, and support to make informed decisions and address issues or specific needs they have. Make sure that employee concerns are addressed, and reach out to make sure something has not been overloo...
Job Flexibility For Breastfeeding Moms
Breastfeeding Moms At Work With a new baby, working and breastfeeding mothers juggle work and taking care of a new baby. Not every mother will need a special schedule or job flexibility, but having the options available is important in enabling work/life balance for both their productivity and workplace retention. Moms appreciate the support they receive from your company which in turn motivates them to do their best work for the business. There are many options that employers can give their ...
6 Tips To Get You and Your Baby Ready For Fall!
6 Tips to Get You and Your Baby Ready for Fall As the days get shorter and the leaves change color, it's time to prepare for the change of seasons. Get your family ready for the cooler weather and flu season with these seasonal health tips and reminders! Breastfeeding moms give their baby an extra boost of immunity from illnesses because they pass antibodies onto their baby through breastmilk. If a baby has been exposed to germs that the mother has not, mom will give antibodies to th...
Celebrating Valentine's Day with Baby
Celebrating Valentine's Day With Baby With a new little one, you have another reason to celebrate Valentine's Day! Make it one to remember as a family. Here are our five favorite tips to celebrate Valentine's Day with your baby! Create or buy Valentines. Get creative and include a picture or handprint of your baby to send to relatives and loved ones. Dress up your baby in a cute Valentine's Day outfit. Check stores for cute Valentine's Day themed baby clothing o...
Lactation Consultant Spotlight: Maggie Kler, IBCLC
Maggie Kler, IBCLC, has been with Healthy Horizons for 4 years. A transplant from the Midwest, she has first-hand experience as a working and breastfeeding mom. She nursed her first child until he was over three. She has a BS from the University of Cincinnati and studied at University of California San Diego and San Francisco State for her credentials as an IBCLC. Many of her clients tell us about how she has given them the breastfeeding support and guidance they need with warmth and compassi...
