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El Paso Baby Café®
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The El Paso Baby Café® (PDF, 922 KB) will serve the needs of women who are breastfeeding or are interested in doing so. It is a drop-in center, open twice or three times a week, free to all who attend with no appointment needed. Mothers support other mothers, and a lactation professional is always available if necessary. The idea is predicated on evidence that children who were breastfed as babies have a significantly lower risk of becoming obese later in life. Please see our article and photos in the El Paso Times (PDF, 46 KB).
El Paso, Texas, is a city of half-a-million residents which borders Mexico. El Paso has a young population: it is 85 percent Hispanic, with many first-generation 
immigrants.
The main partners of the El Paso Baby Café® are: Texas Tech University HSC-El Paso; Thomason Hospital; Texas Department of State Health Services-Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention Program; El Paso City-County Health, WIC; El Paso First HealthPlans Inc.; Superior HealthPlan; SWABA (Southwest Area Breastfeeding Advocates); Medela, Inc.; Ameda, Inc.; The Paso del Norte Health Foundation-Begin at Birth Initiative; ESC Region 19 Early Head Start; AVANCE; March of Dimes; Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health; and Univision Channel 26.
The El Paso Baby Café® is licensed under the umbrella organization of The Baby Café Charitable Trust, U.K.
Last Updated November 17, 2008