Healthy Beginnings
Register for a Healthy Beginnings Class
For breastfeeding help, click here to send an email or call: 760-416-4754
Preparing for a happy, healthy beginning
Desert Care Network’s Healthy Beginnings program at Desert Regional Medical Center provides you with the tools you’ll need to get off to a healthy journey with your new baby. The trained, professional staff offers breastfeeding support and
educational classes to make you a confident parent and have a healthy lifestyle. Healthy Beginnings is designed for both parents-to-be and new parents, and its classes focus on pregnancy and infant care. Your additional benefits include:
Prenatal Classes: Childbirth Preparation, Breastfeeding, Newborn Care, Infant Safety and CPR
Follow-Up Visits: For mom and baby, we offer follow up visits with an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant Nurse. Assistance with latch and position, increasing milk supply, going back to work, breast pump help
and any challenges or concerns
Breast pump Rentals: Hospital Grade Pumps - Symphony for $65.00 per month
Breastfeeding: Key Benefits & How We Can Help
Key Benefits of Breastfeeding
We encourage breastfeeding as it comes with many benefits for both mother and baby.
For your baby, in addition to promoting bonding, breastfeeding lowers the risk of:
- Ear infections
- Respiratory infections
- Allergies
- Asthma
- Leukemia, lymphoma, and Hodgkin’s disease
- Intestinal disease
- SIDS
- Eczema
- Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
- Obesity
For Mom, breastfeeding is:
- Free (formula costs an average of $2300/year)
- Convenient
- Encourages weight loss
And it reduces risk of developing:
- Breast cancer
- Uterine cancer
- Endometrial cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Postpartum bleeding
- Post-partum depression
- Hypertension
How We Can Help With Your Breastfeeding Experience
Healthy Beginnings can help by offering breastfeeding classes and offering one-on-one individualized appointments with a lactation nurse. Our Board-Certified Lactation Consultant Nurses have experience in many areas including:
- Positioning and latching issues
- Sore nipples
- Slow weight gain
- Low milk supply
- Nipple confusion
- Plugged ducts and Mastitis
- NICU graduates
- Breastfeeding multiples
- Normal newborn behavior
