Breastfeeding Resources

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BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT CONTACTS: PART 1

AUSTRALIA:
Australia Breastfeeding Association (ABA)
ABA Helpline - Telephone Counselling
1800 MUM 2 MUM
1800 686 2 686 (if on VOIP leave of the last 6)
A FREE Breastfeeding Helpline answered by trained volunteer Breastfeeding Counsellors who are mothers answering the calls in their own homes. You can call the Breastfeeding Helpline 7 days a week.
ABA email counselling (FREE you will receive a response within 48 hours usually sooner)
ABA Website Forum
ABA Podcasts

United States of America:
La Leche League (LLL)

United Kingdom:
La Leche League Great Britain (LLLGB)
Bosom Buddies - A peer support program supporting Breastfeeding Mums in the Wakefield, South East and FiveTowns areas

International:
La Leche League (LLL -American based international support league for breastfeeding)
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE)
Mothers Overcoming Breastfeeding Issues (MOBI)

Breasts - What do they look like? How do they work? Where do they come from? How much milk on average do I make?
Breasts:What do they look like? Collection of the range of images that are normal breasts see the 007 b website
How does milk production work? Kelly Bonyata. BS, IBCLC from the kellymom website
How much milk do I make in a 24 hour period? - Volume and Frequency of Breastfeedings and Fat Content of Breast Milk Throughout the Day PEDIATRICS Vol. 117 No. 3 March 2006, Jacqueline C. Kent, PhD, Leon R. Mitoulas, PhD, Mark D. Cregan, PhD, Donna T. Ramsay, PhD, Dorota A. Doherty, PhD, and Peter E. Hartmann, Phd
Breast beginnings P Z Meyers
How Mother's Milk is Made Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC
Anatomy of the lactating human breast redefined with ultrasound imaging - Journal of Anatomy, 2005 June; 206(6): 525–534, DT Ramsay, JC Kent, RA Hartmann, and PE Hartman

Breastfeeding FAQs.
Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) Breastfeeding Information index
Jack Newman Breastfeeding handouts
Diane Weissinger Common Sense Breastfeeding Topics

Breastfeeding and Medications
Helpline numbers:
Contacts listed by state to speak to a pharmacist re: medications and breastmilk:
Victoria - Monash Medical Centre Telephone: (03) 9594 2361 Fax: (03) 9594 6595 Mon-Fri 8:45 am to 5:15 pm or email
Rodney Whyte r.whyte@southernhealth.org.au
Or Drug Information Centre, Royals Women's Hospital (03) 9344 2277
New South Wales - Mothersafe. Medications in Pregnancy and Lactation Service: Phone (02) 9382 6539 or 1800 647 848 (freecall outside Sydney metropolitan area) open 9 to 4 pm weekdays, closed public holidays.
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Drug Information Canberra Hospital (02) 6244 3333
Queensland- Medicines Line 9am - 6pm 1300 888 763 or Queensland Drug Information Centre (07) 3636 7098
Western Australia - Obstetric Drug Information Service Telephone: (08) 9340 2723 - located at Centre for Women's Health at KEMH within the Pharmacy Department. Pharmacy open Monday - Fri 8:30 - 5pm but a pharmacist can be paged if urgent. KEMH Clincial Psychology Department has staff who can advise on drugs for women with postnatal depression. Or also in WA Joondalup Health Campus Pharmacy 8.30 am - 9 pm Mon - Fri 08 9400 9900
All States Medicines Line (National Prescribing Service) 1300 888 763.
Therapeutic Advice and Information Service (TAIS) for Health Professionals 1300 138 677 "The Therapeutic Advice and Information Service (TAIS) is a medicines information line specifically for health professionals including doctors, pharmacists and nurses. It is funded by the National Prescribing Service (NPS) and staffed by specialist drug information pharmacists." tais@nps.org.au for non-urgent enquiries
South Australia Women's and Children's Hospital Adelaide (08) 8161 7222

Searchable databases:
Dr Thomas Hale's Breastfeeding and Medications Forum for health professionals (you need to press enter as a guest twice to be able to activate the search function)
Pediatric Service Marina Alta's Hospital information service on over 1500 products re breastfeedingdrugs website intended for use by health professionals, drugs, herbs, environmental toxics, mother and infant diseases. Search by drug category or name.
Lactmed searchable database run by the US National Library of Medicine

Articles:
Which drugs are contraindicated while breastfeeding?: Practise Guidelines September 2000 Myla E. Moretti, MSC; Amy Lee, MSC; Shinya Ito, MD - Hospital For Sick Children, in Toronto, Canada.
Breastfeeding Online site (run by Cindy Curtis IBCLC) links and articles on Breastfeeding and Medications
Key references for use of drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding from the Therapeutic Guidelines website
Medicines and breastfeeding information is available on safe use - letter by Dr Lisa Amir MJA 2007; 186 (9): 485
Breastfeeding and Maternal Medication - Recommendations for Drugs in the Eleventh WHO Model List for Essential Drugs, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organisation, UNICEF

Books:
Medications and Mother's Milk, 2006 Thomans W. Hale - new edition due July 2008
Medications and Breastfeeding, 2004 Royal Hospital for Women in Melbourne

Breast Crawl / Baby Led Attachment/ Biological Nurturing
Breast Crawl - Initiation of Breastfeeding by Breast Crawl video (World Health Organisation) and video text in a PDF
Article on Baby-led attachment adapted from the ABA's An Introduction to Breastfeeding booklet.
Infant Self-Attachment -Teresa Pitman, Guelph Ontario Canada From: LEAVEN, Vol. 38 No. 6, December 2002 - January 2003, pp. 123-125.
The DVD D*elivery Self Attachment Dr Lennart Righard & Kittie Frantz based on PMID: 1977988 study may be borr you can read reviews at Capers The former youtube upload in Spanish has been removed.
The Baby Know How - To Breastfeed, That Is - Kittie Frantz - Mothering Issue 138, September-October 2006
Dr Suzanne Colson on biological nurturing:
Womb to World: A Metabolic Perspective by Suzanne Colson article first appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 61, Spring 2002[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 61, Spring 2002.]
Biological Nuturing (BN) website
Suzanne D Colson, Judith H Meek, Jane M Hawdon Optimal positions for the release of primitive neonatal reflexes stimulating breastfeeding (9 page PDF),Early Hum Dev (2008), doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.12.003

Positioning and Attachment
The ABC of Attachment (from Essence Magazine Vol 41. No. 3)
Jack Newman website, see hyperlinks for videos of First Latch, Second Latch, Poor Latch/Good Latch
From BreastfeedingMadeSimple.com - Seven Natural Laws For Nursing Mothers the animated latch finding the 'comfort zone'
Video Latch On from the Ameda website

Increasing Your Milk Supply - Not enough milk?
Not Enough Milk? article from the ABA website
Build It Up Part 1: How Much is Enough? ABA Podcast
Build It Up Part 2: How breastfeeding works some ways to increase supply ABA Podcast
Build It Up Part 3: The Lowdown on the Letdown ABA Podcast
Living with Chronic Low Milk Supply A Basic Guide By Angie Cannon, D.M.A., Hilary Jacobson, Beverly Morgan, IBCLC
Increasing Low Milk Supply by Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCLC
Targeting Treatment To The Cause - lecture by Diana West IBCLC, freed videocast hosted by University of Arizona College of Medicine. Contains material from her Dec 2008 to be released book titled The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to MAKING MORE MILK by Diana West, BA, IBCLC and Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC
Galactagogues
GALACTAGOGUES (substances that are claimed to increase milk supply) Wendy Brodribb AM MBBS, IBCLC, ABA Breastfeeding Counsellor This article is based on Topics in Breastfeeding, Set XII November 2000, Lactation Resource Centre

Too Much milk?
Too Much Milk? Article from the ABA website
Managing Oversupply 1: It's All Too Much - Managing oversupply - engorgement, blocked ducts and mastitis ABA Podcast
Managing Oversupply 2: fast flow, posture feeding and lactose overload - ABA podcast
Forceful Let-down (Milk Ejection Reflex) & Oversupply by Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCLC Overabundant milk supply: an alternate way to intervene by full drainage and block feeding - International Breastfeeding Journal 2007, 2: 11, Caroline GA van Veldhuizen-Staas

Breast and Nipple Care - blocked ducts, mastitis, white spot, biting
Plugged Ducts and Mastitis by Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCLC
Breast and Nipple Care ABA website
How do you treat a milk blister? by Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCLC
When Baby Bites - Kelly Bonyata BS, ICBLC Mothers Overcoming Breastfeeding Issues
http://www.mobimotherhood.org/MM/default.aspx

Risks of artificial milk - Why breastfeeding is optimal nutrition
101 reasons to Breastfeed (from the ProMOM website)
"Just One Bottle Won't Hurt" ---"Or Will It? - article by Marsha Walker (RN, IBCLC)
Suck On This - Ecologist, April 2006
Formula For Disaster - Salon July 1999, Katie Allison Granju
The risks of infant formula feeding - The Breastfeeding Taskforce of Greater Los Angeles
Risks of Artificial Feeding Kellymom website
The Anti-Inflammatory Characteristics of Human Milk - Dr E. Stephen Buescher - La Leche League Podcast
DHA/ARA Replacing Mother - Imitating Human Breast Milk In The Laboratory - Novel Oils in Infant Formula and Organic Foods: Safe and Functional Food or Risky Marketing Gimmick? January 2008 Report from the Cornucopia Institue - (66 page PDF download)

Weight Gains and Breastfed Babies
Average Weight Gain for Breastfed Babies (from the Kellymom website)
How much weight should I expect my breastfeeding baby to gain? Dr Sears
WHO Child Growth Standards
'Feeding by numbers: an ethnographic study of how breastfeeding women understand their babies' weight charts', Magda Sachs , Fiona Dykes and Bernie Carter, International Breastfeeding Journal 2006, 1:29, Published 22 December 2006
New WHO Growth Standards - Joyous Birth thread

Introducing Solids
Solid Foods and the Breastfed Baby & Toddler from the kellymom website
Guidelines for implementing a baby-led approach to the introduction of solid foods - updated June 2008 - Gill Rapley
http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedseli...uidelines.html
Introducing Solids - (A traditional Chinese Medicine approach) Melissa Baker
Introducing Solids - Why Wait? ABA Podcast
Introducing Solids - Tastes and Textures - ABA Podcast

Expressing breastmilk / Returning to work
A Caregiver's Guide to the Breastfed Baby PDF from the ABA website
Suggestions on using an Electric Breast Pump PDF from the ABA website
Expressing & Storing Guidelines
Pumping FAQS - Tips on breastpump use from the Pumping Moms website
Long-Term Pumping When Direct Breastfeeding Doesn't Work Out -Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC
The Knack of Hand Expression - Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC
Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace Accreditation Information
Expressing and Working Mummas Unite - Joyous Birth thread

Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction, Nipple and/or Implantation Surgery
http://www.bfar.org/index.shtml
Breastfeeding after Implantation Surgery - Diana West IBCLC, free videocast hosted by University of Arizona College of Medicine - commences 2 hours 5 minutes into the videocast.
http://thelactivist.blogspot.com/200...rgery-and.html

Breastfeeding Twins and Multiples
Breastfeeding Twins by Rebecca Kubenk, twin mum and ABA Counsellor
Breastfeeding Twins ABA Booklet
Breastfeeding triplets, quads or more ABA website
Breastfeeding Triplets, Quads and More ABA Booklet
Nursing Twins (Twins, Triplets and More) index of articles from the La Leche League links to New Beginnings and Leaven
Breastfeeding and Attachment Parenting Twins page

Tongue Tie Resources
Breastfeeding and frenulums - Researcher and presenter: Brian Palmer, D.D.S., December, 2003.
Tongue-tie : information for families - The Royals Women's Hospital handout sheet
NICE (British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) Guidelines IPG149 Division of Ankyloglossia (tongue tie) for breastfeeding - information for the public at http://guidance.nice.org.uk/page.asp...g149publicinfo see also the tongue tie information page at the NICE website where there are 3 further PDFs to download on guidance, Interventions Procedures Consultation Documents and Interventional Procedures Overview http://guidance.nice.org.uk/IPG149/?c=91499
Pictures of the different types of tongue tie from Elizabeth Coryllos, MD, MSs, FAAP, FACS, FRCSc, IBCLC, Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC, Alexander C. Salloum, MD, MA a article in the American Academy of Pediatrics newsletter
La Leche League podcast interview with Catherine Watson Genna

Cleft Lip and Palate Resources
Cleft Lip / Palate Resources - kellymom website
cleft awareness week and my son Connor - Joyous Birth thread by Tamum
Breastfeeding after cleft palate repair – Don't say it is impossible! - the lactation history of Cornelius Boevé - by Alma Boeve-Kroese - Reproduced from ABA Essence magazine Vol 42. No.1

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BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT CONTACTS: PART 2

Raynaud's Syndrome
“Raynaud’s phenonmenon of the nipple: a treatable cause of painful breastfeeding”, Anderson JE, Held N, Wright K, .Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94115, USA. jane.anderson@ucsfmedctr.org
Raynaud Phenomenon on Emedicine last updated: April 5, 2006. Author: Jeffrey R Lisse, MD, FACP Professor, Department of Internal Medicine; Chief, Section of Rheumatology, University of Arizona School of Medicine Coauthor(s): Mayra Oberto-Median, DO Fellow, Section of Rheumatology, University of Arizona
Kelllymom website links

Dental Health
Dr Yvonne Luxford podcast speaks about her thesis Was the Tooth Fairy Breastfed - The Politics of Infant Tooth Decay
Text of Dr Yvonne Luxford's PhD thesis -Entire pdf download
or source page
http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20061116.123141/index.html
Brian Palmer D.D.S The Importance of Breastfeeding as it Relates to Total Health
Brian Palmer D.D.S - Infant Dental Decay - Is it related to Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding and Sexual Abuse Survivors
Breastfeeding and the Sexual Abuse Survivor - Kathleen Kendall Tackett Phd, IBCLC - Journal of Human Lactation, 1998, Vol 14, 125-130
Kathleen Kendall Tackett Phd, IBCLC for the La Leche League - Lactation Consultant Series Two, Unit 10 http://www.breastfeedingmadesimple.c...files/LCSA.pdf

PND and Breastfeeding
A new paradigm for depression in new mothers: the central role of inflammation and how breastfeeding and anti-inflammatory treatments protect maternal mental health - Kathleen Kendall-Tackett International Breastfeeding Journal 2007, 2:6

Relactation & Adoptive Breastfeeding links
1998 World Health Organisation document titled "Relactation: A review of experience and recommendations for practise", a 42 page PDF. Great diagrams and explanations of milk supply related to prolactin and a comprehensive list of factors which influence success of relactation and also discussion of drugs which may increase milk supply.
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/adopt/rel...resources.html
Relactation and Induced Lactation resources and links from the kellymom website.
An adoptive breastfeeding story of starting to breastfeed a 6 month old child. Nursing Julia: My Supreme Challenge By Darillyn Starr Mantua, Utah, USA from: New Beginnings, Vol. 10 No. 5, September-October 1993, pp. 135-136. Darillyn has breastfed her six adopted children
TheAdoptive Breastfeeding Resource Webiste, which includes a Forum that has a whole heap of practical tips re: lactation which would also be useful for relactation.
‘Mental health, attachment and breastfeeding: implications for adopted children and their mothers’, Karleen D Gribble, School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW, 1797, Australia
International Breastfeeding Journal 2006, 1:5 doi:10.1186/1746-4358-1-5
A Model for Caregiving of Adopted Children After Institutionalization - Karleen D Gribble PhD - Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (JCAPN), Volume 20, No. 1, February 2007, pp 14-26.
‘Breastfeeding the Adopted Child’, Reproduced from 'Essence' magazine, Volume 42, Number 4, by Dr Karleen Gribble, an ABA community educator and researcher. Karleen has two children, one born to her and one adopted as a toddler, both breastfed.

Breastfeeding Advocacy and Support
Baby Milk Action -is a non-profit organisation which aims to save lives and to end the avoidable suffering caused by inappropriate infant feeding.
The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) - consists of public interest groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality
INFACT Canada-a national non-governmental organization that works to protect infant and young child health as well as maternal well-being
Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) - The ENN was set up in 1996 by an international group of humanitarian agencies to accelerate learning and strengthen institutional memory in the emergency food and nutrition sector.
Watch Your Language! by Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC (Reprinted from the Journal of Human Lactation, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1996)
World Breastfeeding Week The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is the greatest outreach vehicle for the breastfeeding movement, being celebrated in over 120 countries. Officially it is celebrated from 1–7 August."

Human Milk Banking
Mother Milk Bank Pty Ltd (on the Gold Coast) "is a non for profit company set up by Marea Ryan, in order to provide pasteurized donor mothers milk to infants where human milk is not available...established at the John Flynn Private Hospital Medical Centre on the Gold Coast"
Perron Rotary Express Milk Bank (PREM Bank) runs within the Women and Infants Research Foundation (WIRF) in Perth http://www.wirf.com.au/index.cfm?obj...3629d076306674
'Human Milk Banking in Australia: Lesson and Future Directions' - Ben Hartmann (ABA podcast from August 2007, Hot Milk)
http://mumsright.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=274059
Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBNA) http://www.hmbana.org/
United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking (UKAMB) http://www.ukamb.org/about.htm

Breastfeeding and Custody Issue Resources / Breastfeeding Policies
'Continuing Breastfeeding after Separation and Divorce' by Ragnii Ingela Grainger The ABA Essence Magazine, September 2007, Vol 43. No. 5 also online at http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/divorce.html
'The Best Start - Report of the inquiry into the health benefits of breastfeeding' Family Law covered p 82, 83 (Chapter 5 Breastfeeding Challenges) Recommendation 13 at 5.28 http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committe...t/chapter5.pdf
National Council of Single Mothers & their Children
www.ncsmc.org.au see also their February, 2007 submission to the Federal Breastfeeding Inquiry http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committe...ubs/sub182.pdf
Australian Association for Infant Mental Health (AAIMH) South Australian Branch submission to the inquiry into Child Custody 2003
www.aaimhi.org/documents/submissions/child_custody.pdf
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) ‘Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents in Australia – Incorporating the Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers’ Endorsed April 2003 by the NHMRC
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/_files/n34.pdf
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Breastfeeding Policy endorsed by the 49th RACGP Council 7 September 2007
http://www.racgp.org.au/Content/Navi...nStatement.pdf
American Academy of Pediatrics – Policy Statement – Organizational Principles to Guide and Define the Child Health Care System and / or Improve the Health of All Children
http://pediatrics.aappublications.or...full/115/2/496 or
http://pediatrics.aappublications.or...rint/115/2/496
American Academy of Family Physicians – Policy Statement and Position Paper
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/p...ingpolicy.html
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/p...tionpaper.html
La Leche League International – Extended Breastfeeding and the Law
http://www.llli.org/ba/Feb01.html
In The Best Interests of Breastfeeding Children By Elizabeth N. Baldwin, Esq., Kenneth A. Friedman, Esq., and Steve Harvey
http://www.llli.org/Law/LawInterest.html

Breastfeeding Research
Lactation Resource Centre
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
LACTNET archives searchable http://community.lsoft.com/SCRIPTS/W...EXE?S1=lactnet
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Breast and Nipple Care - blocked ducts, mastitis, white spot, biting
Plugged Ducts and Mastitis by Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCLC
Breast and Nipple Care ABA website
How do you treat a milk blister? by Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCLC
When Baby Bites - Kelly Bonyata BS, ICBLC Mothers Overcoming Breastfeeding Issues
http://www.mobimotherhood.org/MM/default.aspx

The blister link takes you to increasing low supply this is the link I think you want http://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mom/nipplebleb.html