Breastfeeding Resources
Websites
Toolkits, letters & brochures
Videos
Global Health Media has created an excellent series of videos for mothers about breastfeeding. Featured below are the videos on attachment (latching) and expressing breastmilk. Click here to view their entire breastfeeding video series.
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Breastfeeding Apps
Coffective
The Coffective App is a tool for pregnant women and her supporters, including: fathers, grandmothers and friends. It was built by a community of experts that want to help you be effective at setting and reaching your goals. The app is fun and easy to use. The simple steps will help you know what to expect at the hospital. It will also help you build a close bond with your baby!
The app will help you:
- Be confident at the hospital, go home rested, and connect with your baby.
- Easily track things to learn while pregnant by checking off what you want and are prepared for
- Learn how your partner, family, and friends can support you while in the hospital
- Learn steps you can take to get breastfeeding off to a great start—to avoid pain and ensure you make enough milk!
- Build Your Team of local resource and caregivers, and share it with your Champion
You can trust this information! It is written by experts and based on evidence. It is also in line with prenatal requirements for The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.
The Coffective App is a tool for pregnant women and her supporters, including: fathers, grandmothers and friends. It was built by a community of experts that want to help you be effective at setting and reaching your goals. The app is fun and easy to use. The simple steps will help you know what to expect at the hospital. It will also help you build a close bond with your baby!
The app will help you:
- Be confident at the hospital, go home rested, and connect with your baby.
- Easily track things to learn while pregnant by checking off what you want and are prepared for
- Learn how your partner, family, and friends can support you while in the hospital
- Learn steps you can take to get breastfeeding off to a great start—to avoid pain and ensure you make enough milk!
- Build Your Team of local resource and caregivers, and share it with your Champion
You can trust this information! It is written by experts and based on evidence. It is also in line with prenatal requirements for The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.
LactMed
LactMed, part of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET®), is a database of drugs and dietary supplements that may affect breastfeeding. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. All data are derived from the scientific literature and fully referenced. Summaries of the reported information are provided and include links to other NLM databases. Supplemental links to breastfeeding resources from credible organizations are also provided.
LactMed, part of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET®), is a database of drugs and dietary supplements that may affect breastfeeding. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. All data are derived from the scientific literature and fully referenced. Summaries of the reported information are provided and include links to other NLM databases. Supplemental links to breastfeeding resources from credible organizations are also provided.
The Wonder Weeks ($1.99 one time charge)
Think of it as a portable, at-a-glance version of the calendar leap chart in The Wonder Weeks. Where the book describes in-depth and easy-to-understand terms the incredible developmental changes your baby goes through, the app is the perfect leap calendar companion to track your baby’s mental development (during the first 20 months). By knowing what is going on inside the head of your baby, you can help him to make the leap more easily and stimulate his development.
The Wonder Weeks app helps new parents by:
- Calendar Showing when your baby makes a leap in his mental development
- What your baby can understand & learn after this mental leap
- What your baby can do after this leap
- What you can do to help your baby
This app is also a handy reminder for new parents when their baby’s brain is changing, or “leaping,” the baby is making a significant advance in mental development, and with each step forward comes a drastic change in the way your baby sees the world around him. Because these leaps come so quickly, the “new world” and new abilities can sometimes be scary, and the development can initially manifest in poor sleep, bad appetite, crying, clinging and crankiness – exhausting and frustrating mom and dad.
Think of it as a portable, at-a-glance version of the calendar leap chart in The Wonder Weeks. Where the book describes in-depth and easy-to-understand terms the incredible developmental changes your baby goes through, the app is the perfect leap calendar companion to track your baby’s mental development (during the first 20 months). By knowing what is going on inside the head of your baby, you can help him to make the leap more easily and stimulate his development.
The Wonder Weeks app helps new parents by:
- Calendar Showing when your baby makes a leap in his mental development
- What your baby can understand & learn after this mental leap
- What your baby can do after this leap
- What you can do to help your baby
This app is also a handy reminder for new parents when their baby’s brain is changing, or “leaping,” the baby is making a significant advance in mental development, and with each step forward comes a drastic change in the way your baby sees the world around him. Because these leaps come so quickly, the “new world” and new abilities can sometimes be scary, and the development can initially manifest in poor sleep, bad appetite, crying, clinging and crankiness – exhausting and frustrating mom and dad.