Getting help when you need it
Seek professional help for your newborn if s/he is:
- Wetting fewer than 6 diapers per day
- Looks yellow or jaundiced
- Not gaining weight
Seek professional help for mama if:
- Nursing is extremely painful
- Nursing is getting worse rather than better
- Nipples are cracked or bleeding
- Baby blues and crying seems excessive, or goes on for more than a few days
Options on where to go for help:
- Birthing hospitals’ lactation departments.
- Private lactation consultant, often listed in the phone book under breastfeeding
- La Leche League of Oregon
- Nursing Mothers Counsel of Oregon
- WIC Office
Insurance coverage is a frequent question and concern for people. Medela has a new website devoted to answering questions about insurance, and it contains lots of helpful informaiton including:
- Coverage questions you should ask
- Tips for communicating with your insurance company
- Understanding the benefits of breastmilk
- Filing an insurance claim
- Lactation consultant coverage
- Appealing an insurance claim
- Quick coding reference guide
