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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Breastfeeding Resource Center (OBRC) has launched an app that gives families quick and easy access to free breastfeeding support.
Called OK BF, the app brings all OBRC services together in one place and is available in English and Spanish. Users can download the app through Google, Facebook or Apple.
With the OK BF app, users can:
“The OK BF App is designed to help all Oklahoma families and make breastfeeding support easy to access. It makes sure everyone can get support, no matter where they live or what insurance they have,” said Jaclyn Huxford, assistant director of OBRC and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant.
The OBRC is a statewide resource for healthcare providers, organizations and families that works to improve the care of nursing parents and children. OBRC provides breastfeeding advocacy, education, trainings and research to promote innovative and interdisciplinary breastfeeding care throughout Oklahoma. OBRC is a division within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.
For more information, visit obrc.ouhsc.edu, call 405-271-6162 or email OBRC@ouhsc.edu.
About the University of Oklahoma
Founded in 1890, the University of Oklahoma is a public research university with campuses in Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. As the state’s flagship university, OU serves the educational, cultural, economic and health care needs of the state, region and nation. In Oklahoma City, the OU Health Campus is one of the nation’s few academic health centers with seven health profession colleges located on the same campus. The OU Health Campus serves approximately 4,000 students in more than 70 undergraduate and graduate degree programs spanning Oklahoma City and Tulsa and is the leading research institution in Oklahoma. For more information about the OU Health Campus, visit www.ouhsc.edu.
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