Breastfeeding Links
Breastfeeding research:
Unraveling Breast Milk: Analytical scrutiny reveals how complex fluid nourishes infants and protects them from disease. Chemical & Engineering News September 2008
Was your baby born early (34-37 weeks gestation)? Read this 2010 article in the journal Clinical Lactation about how to make sure breastfeeding goes well anyway.
Stem Cells are found in breast milk! “We already know how breast milk provides for the baby’s nutritional needs, but we are only just beginning to understand that it probably performs many other functions,” says Dr Cregan, a molecular biologist at The University of Western Australia, July 2007. Read more here.
Breast-Fed babies may be better behaved children. Read the October 2008 Washington Post article here
Breastfeeding despite contaminants in Human Milk. Envionmental Health Perspectives, 2008
Do breastfed babies need iron supplements? Medications and More Newsletter, 2008
Full Breast-feeding May Lower Hospitalizations for Infections During Your Baby's First Year of Life Journal Pediatrics 2006 Prolonged and Exclusive Breastfeeding Reduces the Risk of Infectious Diseases in Infancy the Journal of Pediatrics 2010
New research on benefits to mom: A longer duration of breastfeeding is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertention for the mother. To read the full article click American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2009 . For a summary, click here.
The evidence for nursing on demand by IBCLC's Jan Barger and Lisa Marasco
If your baby has a tongue tie, here is evidence in support of frenulectomy The Journal Pediatrics 2008
Babies who are NOT breastfed are twice as likely to die of SIDS according to a 2009 study from The Journal Pediatrics full article in PDF format or click here for the abstract.
Breastfeeding help
Brookwood Lactation center
Dr. Max Goodman is an ENT at Brookwood who will perform a frenulectomy, and see above for a research article about it.
If you need someone to come to your home contact: Dalia Abrams, breastfeeding support consultant.
Work and Breastfeeding
A Lamaze tip sheet on working and breastfeeding
The book: Nursing Mother Working Mother by Gale Pryor and Kathleen Huggins
Read the Affordable Care Act statement about breastfeeding
Breastfeeding stories
-Read about a mother who donated 7,260 ounces of breast milk to a milk bank
in Oprah's O Magazine March 2009
-Read a poem about nursing in Dr. Seuss style Would you nurse her in the park?
-Read how a mom saved her 4 year old and 7 month old daughters by breastfeeding them when they were stuck for over a week in a car in the snow.
Breastfeeding support groups in Birmingham:
For Birmingham area La Leche League groups and meeting times click here
For Brookwood hospital sponsored groups and meeting times click here
Breastfeeding products :
Medela makes a variety of products to help you breastfeed your baby
Lactaid makes a supplementary nursing system so you can supplement at the breast
Mother Love products to increase milk supply containing goats rue
Online Breastfeeding information:
KellyMom.com
Dr. Jack Newman breastfeeding help BreastfeedingPartners.org
LaLeche League
Tips from the Trenches by Dr. Becky Saenz, MD, FABM, IBCLC
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's web site has protocols for Mastitis (#4) and other good stuff
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed) - A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.
The Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition's YouTube video's on continuing to breastfeed when you go back to work
For information about getting insurance reimbursement for visiting a lactation consultant and for renting a breast pump go to www.breastfeedinginsurance.com
Do you have breast milk to share? Traveling and pumping and don't want to bring the milk home but can't stand the thought of throwing it away? Pumping and have too much milk? Or maybe you need milk for your baby: Go to www.milkshare.com
Unraveling Breast Milk: Analytical scrutiny reveals how complex fluid nourishes infants and protects them from disease. Chemical & Engineering News September 2008
Was your baby born early (34-37 weeks gestation)? Read this 2010 article in the journal Clinical Lactation about how to make sure breastfeeding goes well anyway.
Stem Cells are found in breast milk! “We already know how breast milk provides for the baby’s nutritional needs, but we are only just beginning to understand that it probably performs many other functions,” says Dr Cregan, a molecular biologist at The University of Western Australia, July 2007. Read more here.
Breast-Fed babies may be better behaved children. Read the October 2008 Washington Post article here
Breastfeeding despite contaminants in Human Milk. Envionmental Health Perspectives, 2008
Do breastfed babies need iron supplements? Medications and More Newsletter, 2008
Full Breast-feeding May Lower Hospitalizations for Infections During Your Baby's First Year of Life Journal Pediatrics 2006 Prolonged and Exclusive Breastfeeding Reduces the Risk of Infectious Diseases in Infancy the Journal of Pediatrics 2010
New research on benefits to mom: A longer duration of breastfeeding is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertention for the mother. To read the full article click American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2009 . For a summary, click here.
The evidence for nursing on demand by IBCLC's Jan Barger and Lisa Marasco
If your baby has a tongue tie, here is evidence in support of frenulectomy The Journal Pediatrics 2008
Babies who are NOT breastfed are twice as likely to die of SIDS according to a 2009 study from The Journal Pediatrics full article in PDF format or click here for the abstract.
Breastfeeding help
Brookwood Lactation center
Dr. Max Goodman is an ENT at Brookwood who will perform a frenulectomy, and see above for a research article about it.
If you need someone to come to your home contact: Dalia Abrams, breastfeeding support consultant.
Work and Breastfeeding
A Lamaze tip sheet on working and breastfeeding
The book: Nursing Mother Working Mother by Gale Pryor and Kathleen Huggins
Read the Affordable Care Act statement about breastfeeding
Breastfeeding stories
-Read about a mother who donated 7,260 ounces of breast milk to a milk bank
in Oprah's O Magazine March 2009
-Read a poem about nursing in Dr. Seuss style Would you nurse her in the park?
-Read how a mom saved her 4 year old and 7 month old daughters by breastfeeding them when they were stuck for over a week in a car in the snow.
Breastfeeding support groups in Birmingham:
For Birmingham area La Leche League groups and meeting times click here
For Brookwood hospital sponsored groups and meeting times click here
Breastfeeding products :
Medela makes a variety of products to help you breastfeed your baby
Lactaid makes a supplementary nursing system so you can supplement at the breast
Mother Love products to increase milk supply containing goats rue
Online Breastfeeding information:
KellyMom.com
Dr. Jack Newman breastfeeding help BreastfeedingPartners.org
LaLeche League
Tips from the Trenches by Dr. Becky Saenz, MD, FABM, IBCLC
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's web site has protocols for Mastitis (#4) and other good stuff
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed) - A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.
The Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition's YouTube video's on continuing to breastfeed when you go back to work
For information about getting insurance reimbursement for visiting a lactation consultant and for renting a breast pump go to www.breastfeedinginsurance.com
Do you have breast milk to share? Traveling and pumping and don't want to bring the milk home but can't stand the thought of throwing it away? Pumping and have too much milk? Or maybe you need milk for your baby: Go to www.milkshare.com