NUTRITION AND LACTATION
Helping babies grow strong and healthy

Nutrition is an essential building block for every baby’s healthy future, and it’s even more important to babies with challenges. Texas Children’s Newborn Center has the resources and expertise to ensure your baby gets the best possible start in life.

The Newborn Center’s multidisciplinary team, which includes physicians, dietitians and other health care professionals with special expertise, make sure each baby receives the optimum nutrition backed by the most recent research.


Mother’s Own Milk bank
Providing breast milk to hospitalized babies requires special effort, but it is well worth it. The Newborn Center’s Mother’s Own Milk Bank is a state-of-the-art collection, labeling, refrigeration and dispensing center that stores and prepares deposited breast milk to feed infants in Newborn Center nurseries.

Lactation Services
Science has shown time and again that mother’s milk is the best food for babies. However, for a variety of reasons, it’s not always easy to breastfeed. The Newborn Center’s specially trained lactation consultants offer encouragement, support, equipment and classes to help you provide this important gift to your baby – whether or not your baby is a patient at Texas Children’s.