When your baby is in hospital, your needs matter too.
Our Lactation Centre at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto provides a private, welcoming space for mothers to express breast milk while their babies receive medical care.
Through access to expressing equipment, breastfeeding guidance and support, we help mothers feel comfortable and cared for during their time at the hospital.
Our Lactation Centre recognises these individual needs. Here, mothers receive support in an environment centred on their comfort and dignity.
Caring for a baby also means recognising the needs of the person caring for them.
Our centre supports mothers of babies receiving care at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, including those in the neonatal intensive care unit.
While the hospital team looks after each baby’s medical needs, the Lactation Centre provides dedicated space and support for mothers.
This is part of our commitment to family-centred care: recognising the needs of children and the people who love them.
Ronald McDonald Lactation Centre
Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital
26 Chris Hani Road, Diepkloof
Soweto, Johannesburg
Please contact our team to learn more about the Lactation Centre and how to access support.
Take a look at the space where mothers receive privacy, practical support and care during their baby’s hospital stay.
Comfortable & secluded seating
Clinical sanitisation & tools
Multilingual educational materials
Warm, stress-free hospitality
Your support helps sustain the spaces, resources and everyday care our programmes provide.
By donating or partnering with Ronald McDonald House South Africa, you help us support families during their child’s medical treatment.
Family Stays. With your support.
