WIC - Women, Infants & Children

November - December 2025

Healthy Holiday Tips

1.  Don’t Skip Meals
   Skipping meals, with the goal to save calories before a holiday event, typically backfires. Try having a filling snack ahead of time, such as fruit and cheese or yogurt and nuts to help prevent overeating.
2. Bring Your Own Dish
   Contribute a healthy dish to your next holiday event. Try making a festive charcuterie board with high protein foods like cheeses and meats and high fiber foods like fruits and nuts.
3. Fit in Favorites
   All foods can fit! Choose dishes you absolutely love and cannot get any other time of the year like grandma’s famous pumpkin pie!
4. Stay Active
   Movement after a large meal can help regulate blood sugar and improve digestion. Opt for taking a walk with friends and family after your holiday meal.
5. Don’t Feel Guilty
   If you do overindulge, don’t beat yourself up over it. Try to incorporate healthy items into your next meal and get in some movement!

Breastfeeding Corner

Are you making enough milk for your baby? Most likely, the answer is YES!

Breastfeeding newborns can feed on average 8 – 12 times in 24 hours for the first few weeks.

You may feel you are not making enough milk for baby when they hit growth spurts around two to three weeks, six weeks, three months, and six months. Baby may nurse longer, and at times up to every 30 min., and be fussier. It can last for a few days at a time. This is usually nature’s way of increasing your milk supply to keep up with your baby’s needs. Your body will adjust to the right amount during this time, and in a few days, baby will go back to a normal feeding schedule. Then your milk supply will be greater and will sustain the new levels for baby’s needs.

Babies may also have this behavior but, only in the evenings. This is called “cluster feeds” & is baby’s way of filling up & learning to sleep longer at night.

A few tips:

• Eat well & stay hydrated
• Ask loved ones for extra help while you tend to baby more often
• Be patient. This is usually temporary!

Reach out to your health care professional and/or lactation specialist for additional assessment and support If you are still concerned

Learn more from USDA here

Breastfeeding Questions? Call the office at 518-432-4033. Or call our peer counselor Jackie at 518-649-3885.

WIC Reminders:

Don't forget to use your benefits! Utilizing your WIC benefits helps our program receive appropriate funding to continue to serve our community.

Lactation Destination Club: Each month, our peer counselor holds a breastfeeding support group for pregnant and postpartum families to learn about different breastfeeding topics. Please call the office if you're interested in attending. More information is listed above.

Send in your WIC Medical Referral Forms. Please email or fax in yours or your child's WIC Medical Referral Form so we have the most up-to-date blood work and height and weight measurements.

Farmers’ Market Coupons: Farmers’ Market coupons expire on November 30th. If you need a list of approved farmers’ markets, please contact the office.