In mountain communities built on relationships and word-of-mouth, it can be difficult to find help when you’re at home with a baby struggling to eat. We have asked around so you don’t have to. Search our list of providers, resources, and support groups by location and specialty.
Note: This is a catalogue of resources only. Nurture Appalachia does not endorse any providers.
High Country Infant Feeding Resources
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- Alleghany County
- Ashe County
- Avery County
- Bottle feeding
- Breast feeding
- Breastfeeding
- Cleft
- Cleft lip and palate
- Corrective surgery
- Craniosacral Fascial Therapy
- Doula
- Feeding therapy
- Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies
- Infant feeding
- Lactation Services
- Lenoir
- occupational therapy
- Pediatric Feeding Disorder
- Pierre Robin
- Speech Language Pathology
- Toolkit
- Watauga County
Appalachian Breastfeeding Network
24-hour breastfeeding hotline: 888-588-3423
Website: https://www.appalachianbreastfeedingnetwork.org
About: 24-hour hotline, lactation professional database, and lactation resources
Blue Ridge Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
Phone: (828) 262-0100
Website: https://blueridgepeds.com
Addresses:
579 Greenway Rd, Suite 200
Boone, NC 28607
3616 Mitchell Ave, Suite 2
Linville, NC 28646
968 US Hwy 221 Business,
West Jefferson, NC 28694
Lactation professionals on site certain days of the week.
Laura Mele IBCLC
Phone: (828) 278-9048
Email: LarasLactationConsulting@gmail.com
Providing lactation services at Watauga Medical Center and through private practice in the Boone, NC area
Women Infants and Children Program (WIC)
Phone: (828) 964-0171
Website: https://www.apphealth.com/wic-nutrition/
Providing peer breastfeeding support, supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk in Watauga, Ashe, and Alleghany Counties.