Birthing Classes:  Families will choose between available courses; these courses are taught by a certified Birth Doula, certified Birth Educator and Evidence Based Birth Instructor®. Topics will include but are not limited to; basics of infant care, labor/physiological childbirth, postpartum care, common interventions, mindfulness/meditation, and breastfeeding. 

Birth Doula: Families will interview available partnering doulas and choose the one that they would like to work with. Partnering certified labor doulas will provide three prenatal visits before birth, are present for labor and birth, and provide one postpartum visit. Birth doulas assist with creating birthing plans, patient advocacy, informational, physical, and emotional support, provide comfort measures, breastfeeding and latching initiation at hospital and more depending on their certifications and what the client’s wishes are.

Postpartum Doula:  Families enrolled in the Birth Doula Program will receive an additional six visits from a certified postpartum doula. These visits will take place over the first twelve weeks as families schedule the visits based on when they want the doula to come, the first visit will take place within ten days of giving birth. Postpartum doulas will provide emotional, informational, and physical support, breastfeeding assistance, postpartum care, light housekeeping and delivery of prepared meals and fresh produce. 

Breastfeeding Support Programs: Our Momma Support Group, Fathering Forward Support Group and Breastfeeding Peer Counseling programs include emotional support, lactation assistance, patient advocacy, education, virtual support, 1:1 support in the home and office, delivery of essential supplies, and group events to develop a strong support network for women and families. As long as the child is getting breastmilk, via the breast, bottles, or mixed with food, families have access to the essential supply donation wall for up to two years. Our donation wall includes wipes, essential breastfeeding supplies, clothes, and more. 

Malone Maternal Wellness Doula Scholarship: Individuals interested in becoming a certified doula can apply for the MMW Doula Scholarship. This scholarship program seeks to increase the number of doulas in Lincoln and Omaha by 2 scholarships per year. After scholarship awardees have completed training, they will provide services to 1 family, pro bono, within the first year of course completion and can then become partnering doulas which is a paid position. 

Doula Mentorship: Promoting the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual wellness of individual partnering doulas and the development of robust, sustainable doula businesses through monthly community discussions of relevant topics, and 1:1 monthly coaching sessions focused on individual goal setting, progress, and fulfillment. Scholarship awardees and partnering doulas have the opportunity to shadow our veteran Doula Mentors at visits and births. Doula Mentors provide unlimited 24/7 phone and text support when the mentee is at a birth and needs mentorship to support the client. 

Milk Share:

Malone Community Center facilitates informed-consent milk sharing in Lincoln, Omaha, and surrounding areas. Facilitation of human milk sharing consists of informed screening of donors and storage and distribution of milk, in alignment with international standards and guidelines for the safe sharing of human milk. We provide support for, foster relationships with, and are accountable to milk donors and recipients through a standardized process of:

• Donor health history interviews
• Donor blood tests for diseases that may be passed through breast milk, including HIV 1&2, HTLV 1&2, syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C
• Triage of donor milk to infants, prioritizing babies up to 6 months of age
• Delivery of milk within a 2-hour radius of Omaha and Lincoln via our Milk Mobile
• Up-to-date breastfeeding information, safe pumping and milk handling & freezing guidelines and referrals as needed
• Support for lactation following infant loss. 

Malone Center is not a milk bank. Milk is not pasteurized, homogenized or tested. Instructions for in home pasteurization are available to each recipient. Malone Center milk is free to all families. Malone Center is not informal milk sharing.