REGALO DE AMOR
Regalo de Amor offers breastfeeding support to all WIC participants!

• Appointments
• Drop-in hours
• Phone breastfeeding support

The Regalo de Amor staff is bilingual in Spanish and English.
The Regalo de Amor staff can
help you learn the art of breastfeeding.

We provide:
• Professional breastfeeding support
• Help with positioning
• Weaning tips
• Help for working moms to breastfeed
• Breast pumps
• Breast pads
• Referrals

Breastfeeding is Best!
• Baby stays healthier!
• Breastmilk is the best nutrition for your baby.
• Breastmilk protects your baby from illness.
• Mom gets a break!
• Breastmilk is always ready.
• There is nothing to buy, heat or measure.
• Mom stays healthier!
• Breastfeeding helps women recover from pregnancy and may prevent breast cancer.
• Breastfeeding creates a special bond between mom and baby!

WIC provides peer counselor breastfeeding support to prenatal and post-partum women to answer common questions about breastfeeding, provide anticipatory guidance for common breastfeeding problems and to provide assistance and support to those experiencing problems.

Regalo de Amor, the WIC Lactation Center, offer breastfeeding support services to all WIC participants by appointment. Breastfeeding support is also available by phone at 722-7121 x 116.

WIC offers two breastfeeding support groups, called Club Bebes, to Spanish-speaking mothers with infants up to 6 months of age. Club Bebes is offered every Monday from 10:00 - 11:30 am in Santa Cruz, and every Friday in Watssonville from 9:30 - 11:00 am. Moms may come as often as they like.

Through a collaboration with Watsonville Community Hospital, the peer counselor staff conducts bedside rounds to early post-partum women in the hospital every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and every other Thursday from 8 am - 12 pm to help ensure that breastfeeding gets off to a good start.

WIC's bilingual, breastfeeding staff includes two Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultants and four peer counselors/breastfeeding educators.