The 412 Breastfeeding Resource Map
App Motivations
To improve the visibility of resources for families of hospitalized infants in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Jessica and her team created the 412 Breast Feeding Resource Map.
The 412 Breast Feeding Resource Map is an asset map of perinatal care resources, such as lactation support, doulas, peer groups, and health care providers, around Allegheny County in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The target audience for this asset map is biological parents of critically ill infants in and around Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Features
This data application includes the locations of all resources available to breastfeeding and critically ill infants. Each asset has a description of the services offered, contact information, hours of operation, and whether or not community members consider them to be BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ safe spaces.
Acknowledgments
Jessica would like to acknowledge her co-creators, Kelly Johnson and Ebony Jackson of Pittsburgh Black Breastfeeding Circle for their help in creating this project.
If you would like to look at Jessica's Asset Map, you can access the application here. The full map is expected to be completed in October 2024.
About the Author
Jessica A. Davis, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, IBCLC is a postdoctoral scholar in the Division of General Academic Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh. She has extensive experience caring for diverse populations of newborns and their families through her time as a nurse and lactation consultant at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC Magee Women’s Hospital, Midwife Center for Birth and Women’s Health, and the Pacify tele-lactation network. In addition to her clinical work, she was a peer lactation mentor with La Leche League, serves as a board member to the Mid-Atlantic Mother’s Milk Bank, and has recently joined the editorial board at the Journal for Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing. She is interested in building a program of clinical research that utilizes lactation and perinatal support interventions to enhance health equity for families impacted by fetal and/or infant diagnosis of a congenital heart defect.
