Infant Feeding Options | SPCAAWIC | South Plains Community Action Association WIC

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  - This section of our website provides resources to our health partners in the medical profession to help improve the lives of women and children. Here you’ll find information on classes, breastfeeding services, nutrition and referrals.
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About
- About SPCAA WIC
  - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, popularly known as WIC, is a nutrition program for pregnant, breastfeeding women and families with children younger than 5.
- New to WIC
- Communication
  - WIC In The News
  - Special WIC Food Updates
- myWIC App
  - Apple Store
  - Google Store
Apply
Breastfeeding
Health & Nutrition
WIC Foods & Recipes
- WIC Foods & Recipes
  - Texas WIC helps you buy the foods that you and your children need to stay healthy. The WIC foods in your monthly food package are low in fat, high in fiber, help you get important nutrients, and promote a healthy weight.
- Shopping with WIC
- Foods and Recipes
Classes
Kids
Health Partners
- Health Partners
  - This section of our website provides resources to our health partners in the medical profession to help improve the lives of women and children. Here you’ll find information on classes, breastfeeding services, nutrition and referrals.
- Breastfeeding Info
- Resources
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Infant
Feeding Options

Helping moms meet their breastfeeding goals

The WIC program recommends exclusive breastfeeding up to six months and continued breastfeeding for 1 to 2 years and beyond. Exclusively breastfeeding WIC moms get an enhanced food package, and WIC encourages our health partners to adopt policies and create environments that are supportive of breastfeeding.

WIC wants parents to be informed, confident and comfortable with their infant feeding decisions, and to choose the option that best supports their needs and circumstances.

If breastfeeding is not exclusive, WIC can provide both milk-and soy-based formulas for our clients, and other formulas by prescription and in medically-indicated cases.

Infant Feeding Options

Milk-Based Formula

Enfamil Infant (milk-based)
Soy-Based formula

Similac Soy Isomil (soy-based)
Formulas for mild intolerance

Effective 2/1/2021, a medical request is no longer needed for these formulas.

Enfamil Gentlease

Enfamil Reguline

Enfamil A.R.
Therapeutic formulas

See the Texas WIC Formulary for available therapeutic formulas, which require health partners to fill out a Texas WIC Medical Request for Formula/Food Form. WIC approval is required.

See the Formula Prescriptions page for forms and other formula-related documents.
Requesting Metabolic formulas

Metabolic formula products are available for the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism and metabolic disorders.

Requests for metabolic formulas must come from recognized metabolic centers using the Texas WIC Medical Request for Metabolic Formula/Food.

WIC staff do not counsel or provide education concerning these specialized medical conditions, but must approve all metabolic formula requests.

For more information about the metabolic products available, see the resources below. For questions about metabolic formula requests, call your local WIC clinic or contact state WIC staff.

Texas WIC Medical Request for Metabolic Formula
(English) (PDF, 280KB)

Instructions for Medical Request Form for Metabolic Formula
(English) (PDF, 731KB)

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