Supporting your individual needs throughout your entire breastfeeding journey.

Our internationally board-certified lactations consultants can provide comprehensive breastfeeding support in a variety of settings and meet the needs of all families.

Common reasons for requesting a lactation consultation include:

• Failure or difficulty with latch
• Sore nipples
• Multiple births (twins, triplets)
• Flat or inverted nipples
• Prior breast surgery
• Low or overabundant milk supply
• Engorgement
• Sucking abnormalities
• Infant shows little interest in breastfeeding
• Returning to work
• Slow infant weight gain

Our expert lactation consultants are highly qualified and experienced in working exclusively with moms and their babies on a wide range of breastfeeding issues. In addition, all of our obstetric nurses have additional training to help you meet your breastfeeding goals. Several nurses have advanced breastfeeding training and have obtained lactation certification.

OPEN 7 Days a Week!

Prenatal Education: Breastfeeding classes available! Taught by our IBCLC’s to enhance your knowledge about infant nutrition which will help prepare you and your support person for improving the start to your breastfeeding journey.

Inpatient: You will receive excellent care while a patient in Women’s Pavilion from a highly trained and dedicated nursing staff that will assist you while breastfeeding your newborn. We also have a team of experienced IBCLC’s available to work with you during your hospital stay and beyond. 

Outpatient: In collaboration with Bloomington Breastfeeding Care, our Women’s Pavilion Lactation Consultants provide private one-on-one breastfeeding consultations. Appointments can be made before the arrival of your baby and after. To schedule an appointment, call 330.202.5567.

FREE Breastfeeding Support Group: The Baby Bistro is a virtual support group that welcomes all mothers regardless of location or delivering facility to provide accurate breastfeeding information, education, social and emotional support, and access to lactation consultants at every meeting. Follow us at WCHWomensPavilion on social media for more information.

Many expectant mothers and even fathers get involved with a breastfeeding class, so they can prepare for and help ensure their earliest experiences with their newborn are memorable.

At the Women’s Pavilion at Wooster Community Hospital, you will receive instruction by a certified lactation consultant, who will cover the basics of breastfeeding as well as where to get help if you need it.

To consult a lactation consultant at the Women’s Pavilion at Wooster Community Hospital for breastfeeding support services, call 330.202.5567.

2025 Breastfeeding Class Schedule

• January, 22, 2025
• February 19, 2025
• March 19, 2025
• April 16, 2025
• May 14, 2025
• June 11, 2025
• July 23, 2025
• August 20, 2025
• September 17, 2025
• October 15, 2025
• November 12, 2025
• December 3, 2025

Class Times: 6:30-8:30pm

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To sign up for a Wooster Community Hospital breastfeeding class, call 330.202.5548.

"The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners^® (IBLCE^®) and the International Lactation Consultant Association^® (ILCA^®) present the IBCLC Care Award for hospitals, birthing facilities, and birthing services and community-based agencies! Recognizing maternity and community-based facilities worldwide that staff with the gold standard in lactation care, International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs).

The IBCLC Care Award recognizes hospitals and community-based facilities that demonstrate their commitment to promoting, protecting, and supporting breastfeeding and the lactation consultant profession."  which is directly from their website https://ibclccare.org/ about the award. 

The Wooster Community Hospital (WCH) Women’s Pavilion has opened a new milk drop site for donated human milk. Starting Tuesday, September 28, 2021, donations from healthy, lactating women can be made at 1761 Beall Avenue in Wooster. WCH will store donated human milk in a freezer before transferring it to a milk bank located in the OhioHealth Eastside Health Center in Columbus, at no cost to the donor.

This initiative has been launched in partnership with the OhioHealth Mothers’ Milk Bank, under the guidelines of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA). This project provides pasteurized human milk to infants whose mothers are unable to provide their own milk.

For more information, please click here.