You don't have to
figure out breastfeeding
alone.
Lactation support, peer connection, and postpartum help for mothers across Northwest Washington, D.C.
Four ways we sit with you.
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Lactation Programs
Education and hands-on support for mothers who are breastfeeding or trying to. We work through what is happening with feeding and what to try next.
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Peer Support
Connection with other mothers who have been through the postpartum weeks themselves. Questions get answered by people who remember asking them.
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Community Outreach
We bring breastfeeding and postpartum education out into the Northwest D.C. community rather than waiting for mothers to find us.
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Advocacy
We speak up for policies and practices that improve maternal and infant health outcomes for the families we serve.
We're here for mothers in Northwest D.C.
HeirforanHeir was organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, and the purpose is a specific one: support and educate mothers who are breastfeeding and mothers who are living through the postpartum weeks. That happens through lactation programs, through peer support with other mothers, and through outreach here in Northwest Washington, D.C.
We also advocate. Feeding and recovery outcomes are shaped by more than what happens in one living room, so part of the work is pushing for conditions that make maternal and infant health better across the board.
If you are a mother in this area with a question, a worry, or nobody to ask, call us and start there.
Bring your questions. Bring the baby.
You call.
You reach a person who will listen.
You tell us what's going on.
Feeding, the nights, how you're holding up — whatever the trouble is that week.
We point you toward the right kind of support.
Lactation help, other mothers who have been through it, or both.
Out in the neighborhood
The weeks get easier when somebody stays with you.