Resources for Parents

UIWSOM Campus Lactation Rooms

Building 1 - Two lactation rooms

  • (A side - 1st Floor, in Admissions hallway towards the back)
  • (A side - 2nd Floor, up the stairwell by Admissions)

Building 2 - One lactation room by the UIWSOM Clinic


Daycares Around UIWSOM and Downtown

Note: UIWSOM does not endorse any specific daycares; this is purely informational.

"Pre-K 4 SA is a full-day prekindergarten program that also offers free afterschool care until 6:00 p.m. The program is highlighted by our experienced teachers, high quality curriculum, and bilingual education options. Students are provided healthy and delicious meals including breakfast, lunch, and snacks at no extra cost and transportation is also available."

"A child care institution, Wee Friends Preschool and Daycare is a center situated in San Antonio, TX. This organization is a licensed center for the Child Care Program that is open every week from Mondays to Fridays. Aside from that, this establishment accepts toddlers, infants, as well as preschool students and can accommodate a maximum capacity of 34 children in total."

"The Make A Wish Daycare in San Antonio, Texas provides childcare for toddlers to school aged children. Their age-appropriate and play-based curriculum stimulates the children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. They promote creative thinking and active learning among the children. The Make A Wish Daycare is open Mondays to Fridays, from six in the morning to seven in the evening."

"The YMCA of Greater San Antonio Early Learning Centers provides infant, toddler and preschool child care with developmentally appropriate learning activities. The purpose of the Early Childhood Program is to provide affordable childcare in an environment that helps to facilitate a child's cognitive, social, physical and emotional growth.At the Y, we believe the values and skills learned early on are vital building blocks for quality of life and future success. That makes for confident kids today, and contributing and engaged adults tomorrow.Licensed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services these programs serve working families at all income levels. Monthly tuition and annual family membership fees apply. Tuition assistance is available through the YMCA Open Doors Scholarship Program. YMCA is a CCS vendor. YMCA members and non-members are welcome to register."

"Madison Square Child Development Center (CDC) is a 'Texas Rising Star' Provider with a 4 Star rating. We voluntarily participate in a plan to improve the quality of services that we provide by meeting program requirements that go above the Minimum Standards for Licensed Child Care Centers. The Star requirements are based on developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs. We also participate in 'Texas School Ready!', an early education approach that serves at-risk preschool-aged children through shared resources between public and private early childhood education programs. The design of Texas School Ready! increases children's school readiness through five evidence-driven components: research-based curriculum, technology-driven child progress monitoring, facilitated teacher professional development, ongoing teacher mentoring, and sustainability."

"At the Healy-Murphy Child Development Center, we believe in caring for the whole child. Our dynamic curriculum helps your child build the social, emotional, and cognitive skills necessary to grow up happy, healthy and ready for school. Daycare is available for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years (including pre-K 3-5). The Child Development Center accepts payments from the city of San Antonio's CCS (Child Care Services) program. We are a certified provider in the Texas Rising Star program. This means that our program offers care and early childhood education of the highest quality to your child."

Holy Name Catholic Church is a church in close proximity to UIWSOM. The daycare phone number is 210-333-6840.

"For nearly 50 years, KinderCare has been helping young children become their very best we'd love to do the same for yours. KinderCare kids go on to outperform their kindergarten peers in math and reading: That's no small achievement! Sign up for a personal tour today, and find out how KinderCare's passionate educators, 21st-century curriculum, classrooms made for kids, and commitment to hardworking families (that's you) helps all children reach their full potential. To learn more about tuition and openings, please select the center that is most convenient for you and we will connect you with a Center Director."


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