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“Baby Café is always going to be supervised by a certi ed lactation consultant,” Gregory said. She added that everyone present has been to lactation training — even the Je co WIC consultants who are always present.

“So, it’s not just facilitating peerto-peer support between the parents,” Gregory said. “But the people facilitating the group are trained breastfeeding professionals.” to a larger network. is means options for breastfeeding families.

Some of the Je co WIC lactation consultants present are also bilingual. It is a much-needed feature of the Je co Baby Café for a few reasons, according to Jacqueline Morales, breastfeeding peer counselor for Je co WIC. She explained that there is a language barrier that often causes moms who do not speak English to give up on breastfeeding prematurely.

Morales added that the bilingual services let moms get the help they need when struggling with breastfeeding.

“(Baby Café) is a more recognizable group. Everything is kind of run a similar way,” Rivera said. “And so, families will know what to expect if they bounce around to di erent Baby Café groups. ey just know what to expect. It’s beautiful.”

Mother’s Milk Bank, based in Arvada, facilitates several groups in the Denver Metro area. It is a program of the Rocky Mountain Children’s Hospital Foundation. According to its website, the organization is a nonpro t and has become one of the largest nonprofit milk banks in North America. It distributes about 700,000 ounces of donor milk each year. About 80-90 percent of that donor milk goes to neonatal care units across the U.S.

Gregory Lenna Gregory, donor relations and outreach manager, said that Baby Café is a feeding support group, which is why it has lactation specialists present and available at every meeting. It’s a part of the standard for groups

“So, for them to have somebody to talk to is extremely important,” Morales said. “Sometimes I don’t have the answer. And I’ll ask one of (the other lactation consultants). Even somebody who doesn’t speak Spanish at all. I’ll ask them their opinion or how they would say something and then we’ll come back to the family.”

Moreles helped translate a mom’s comments to the Je co Transcript about breastfeeding.

Lady Winston and her baby are regulars in the group. She explained why she needed the support.

“ e rst couple of days, it was very hard to know if the baby was getting enough milk,” Winston said. But she explained that she learned how to listen to her body to get cues to understand the baby’s feeding.

“As time went by, my breasts were telling me they were full. So, I was able to nurse the baby. Now, I know that the baby is getting enough,” she said.

WIC Lactation Consultant Andrea Perez also speaks Spanish and

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