Lactation Support Initiative | Healthy Carolina

Healthy Carolina’s Lactation Support Program is free of cost to all university faculty, staff, students, and their spouses. Its goal is to establish lactation support and management services while also creating opportunities for University of South Carolina mothers to meet the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations of breastfeeding for a total of 12 months. Services offered by the program include:

• Free breastfeeding class with a board certified lactation consultant
• Nursing Mother’s Lounges across campus for pumping or breastfeeding
• Learn-at-Lunches on breastfeeding, pregnancy, infant care, and proper
nutrition for mothers and baby
• Listserv and website resources
• Lending Library of breastfeeding and parenting books and resources
• The USC Lactation Policy

The program is always looking for additional space to utilize for their program in order to offer even more convenience and support to mothers at the university. If you have space in your building that is 4 feet by 6 feet in dimension or larger that you would consider using as a nursing mother's lounge, please contact Healthy Carolina.

If you or any of your employees and/or coworkers are currently pregnant or recently welcomed a baby and are interested in participating, please contact Katherine Kovich at: 803-777-1650 or kovich@mailbox.sc.edu. If you are a nursing mother and are interested in checking out a key to a Nursing Mother's Lounge on campus, please complete the Lactation Room Authorization Request Form located under the Nursing Mother's Lounges section below.

The goal of the Lactation Support Initiative is to establish lactation support services at the University.

This initiative is open to all faculty, staff and students at the university and consists of: