Breastfeeding Support Services

Learn how to breastfeed successfully with education, tips, and support from Virtua breastfeeding experts.

Breastfeeding protects your and your baby’s health, provides perfect nutrition, and helps you develop an unbreakable bond. Virtua’s breastfeeding program offers education and support during and after pregnancy to help you and your baby breastfeed successfully.

Our Approach to Breastfeeding Support

Breastfeeding concerns are common for both new and experienced mothers. Yet some moms are reluctant to seek help from breastfeeding experts.

Since breastfeeding takes time to master, Virtua offers many services to guide and encourage you to reach your breastfeeding goals. This includes:

  • Lactation consultation: Virtua internationally board-certified lactation consultants offer private, in-person and telehealth appointments. They can provide personalized plans to help you overcome common breastfeeding challenges, provide return-to-work strategies, breastfeed multiples, and more.
  • Prenatal breastfeeding education: Taught by Virtua breastfeeding experts, this class teaches breastfeeding fundamentals and practical tips to mothers and support people.
  • In-hospital breastfeeding support: To get started breastfeeding, you’re encouraged to have skin-to-skin contact with your baby in the hours after birth. Your baby will also room with you during your hospital stay. Virtua nurses have extensive experience with breastfeeding and can help you with positioning and latching, and help you get started with an electric breast pump if needed.
  • Breastfeeding support group: Moderated by a lactation consultant, meet online with other breastfeeding moms to ask questions, get support for challenges, and learn from each other.

We recommend that most infants breastfeed for at least 12 months and exclusively breastfeed for the first six months. This follows the breastfeeding recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Nurse-Midwives, and other leading organizations.


Breastfeeding Support Resources

Download the Guide to Successful Breastfeeding

Learn breastfeeding basics and valuable tips, and discover how breastfeeding benefits you and your baby.


In addition to Virtua’s Guide to Successful Breastfeeding, the following resources can help you learn more about breastfeeding:

How to breastfeed

Breast pumps and breastmilk storage

Breastfeeding success in life and work

Virtua Breastfeeding Resource Center

At Virtua Health, our experienced board-certified lactation consultants offer private lactation consultations by appointment on the campus of Virtua Voorhees Hospital. Telehealth appointments also are available (fee for service).

View the breastfeeding resource center location

The Virtua Difference for Breastfeeding Support

Expert breastfeeding support

Virtua board-certified lactation consultants are a wonderful source of knowledge, help, and comfort for breastfeeding mothers. They offer private consultations to help new moms learn to breastfeed, provide guidance on starting solids with your breastfed baby, help you prepare to go back to work, and teach moms of multiples to learn how to breastfeed more than one baby.

Expert breastfeeding support

Virtua board-certified lactation consultants are a wonderful source of knowledge, help, and comfort for breastfeeding mothers. They offer private consultations to help new moms learn to breastfeed, provide guidance on starting solids with your breastfed baby, help you prepare to go back to work, and teach moms of multiples to learn how to breastfeed more than one baby.

Global recognition for breastfeeding support

Virtua Mount Holly and Virtua Voorhees Hospitals are designated as Baby-Friendly birth facilities by Baby-Friendly USA, Inc. This recognition demonstrates our commitment to your and your baby’s health by supporting skin-to-skin contact after birth, rooming in, and exclusive breastfeeding. Our team helps you gain the skills and confidence to initiate and continue breastfeeding successfully.

Global recognition for breastfeeding support

Virtua Mount Holly and Virtua Voorhees Hospitals are designated as Baby-Friendly birth facilities by Baby-Friendly USA, Inc. This recognition demonstrates our commitment to your and your baby’s health by supporting skin-to-skin contact after birth, rooming in, and exclusive breastfeeding. Our team helps you gain the skills and confidence to initiate and continue breastfeeding successfully.

Award-winning, trusted maternity care

Newsweek named Virtua Voorhees Hospital one of America’s best maternity hospitals. This award signifies our commitment to the safety, outcomes, and personalized care for moms and newborns. With experience delivering more than 9,000 babies a year, Virtua also was recognized by U.S. News & World Report on its list of best hospitals for maternity care.

Award-winning, trusted maternity care

Newsweek named Virtua Voorhees Hospital one of America’s best maternity hospitals. This award signifies our commitment to the safety, outcomes, and personalized care for moms and newborns. With experience delivering more than 9,000 babies a year, Virtua also was recognized by U.S. News & World Report on its list of best hospitals for maternity care.

Schedule a lactation consultation

Schedule a 15- or 60-minute private, in-person or telehealth lactation consultation to work through breastfeeding challenges.

Schedule online