The Mother-to-Mother Program offers peer counseling help for breastfeeding mothers and babies.
A peer counselor is a mother with breastfeeding experience who can help you in your home or talk with you by phone.
A peer counselor is a mother who can help answer your breastfeeding questions before and after your baby is born.
A peer counselor is a mother who can share heart to heart about breastfeeding.
The Mother-to-Mother Program is the outcome of a partnership between WIC and Michigan State University Extension known as the Breastfeeding Initiative.
The Mother-to-Mother Program has breastfeeding peer counselors available to help in these locations:
County
MSU Extension Office
WIC Office
Antrim
(231) 533 - 1015
(231) 533 - 6255
Bay
(989) 895 - 4026
(989) 895 - 4002
Berrien
(269) 925 - 4822
(269) 926 - 7121
Calhoun
(269) 781 - 0777
(269) 966 - 1230
Charlevoix
(231) 347 - 4630
(231) 547 - 0091
Cheboygan
(231) 627 - 8815
(231) 627 - 8850
Chippewa
(906) 635 - 6368
(906) 635 - 1566
City of Detroit
(313) 833 - 3279
(313) 876 - 4664
Clare
(989) 539 - 7805
(989) 426 - 9431
Emmet
(231) 347 - 4630
(231) 347 - 6014
Gogebic
(906) 663 - 4045
(906) 667 - 0200
Ingham
(517) 887 - 4580
(517) 887 - 4326
Isabella
(989) 772 - 0911
(989) 773 - 5921
Jackson
(517) 788 - 4292
(517) 788 - 4484
Kalamazoo
(269) 384 - 8064
(616) 349 - 2647
Kalkaska
(231) 258 - 3320
(231) 258 - 8669
Kent
(616) 336 - 3265
(616) 632 - 7200
Lenawee
(517) 264 - 5300
(517) 263 - 7861
Monroe
(734) 240 - 3170
(734) 240 - 7895
Muskegon
(231) 724 - 4732
(231) 724 - 1281
Newaygo
(231) 924 - 0500
(231) 876 - 3804
Oakland
(248) 858 - 0912
(248) 858 - 1275
Ontonagon
(906) 884 - 2601
(906) 482 - 7382
Otsego
(989) 732 - 6867
(989) 547 - 6523
Saginaw
(989) 758 - 2500
(989) 758 - 3733
Saginaw Health Delivery
(989) 758 - 2500
(989( 754 - 6111
Sanilac
(810) 648 - 2515
(810) 648 - 4680
St. Claire
(810) 989 - 6935
(810) 987 - 8222
Washtenaw
(734) 222 - 3966
(734) 544 - 6889
Wayne
(313) 833 - 3279
(734) 727 - 7156
Wexford
(231) 779 - 9480
(231) 876 - 3824
The goals of the Mother-to-Mother Program are to:
Increase the number of WIC moms who breastfeed their infants;
Increase the number of days, weeks and months that breastfeeding continues;
Provide breastfeeding encouragement and support to women throughout their infant's first year of life;
Enhance state and local WIC/MSUE joint efforts; and
Expand services for moms and their breastfed babies.