Breastfeeding Web sites

Our lactation specialists at UW Medical Center have created links to many sites that parents may find useful. Please see the following categories and links below:

• Adoptive Nursing
• Allergies
• Breastfeeding After Reduction Surgery
• Breastfeeding—Frequently Asked Questions
• Crying and Infant Behavior
• Dental Health
• Human Milk And Infant Formulas
• Medications
• Milk Banks
• Not Enough Milk?
• Organizations
• Positioning and Latch
• Preterm Babies
• Pumping and Storing Human Milk
• Pumps, Pillows, Clothing, and Other Supplies
• Raynaud’s (vasospasm of the nipples)
• Reflux (Gastroesophageal reflux) in infants
• Sleep issues
• Twins, Triplets, Quadruplets
• Working mothers
• Yeast infections
• Extensive Breastfeeding Links
• Other Useful Tools

Adoptive Nursing

• Adoptive Breastfeeding Resource 
  www.fourfriends.com/abrw/

Allergies

• Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network  
  www.foodallergy.org/
  
• Hypoallergenic Infant Formulas (AAP statement) 
  www.aap.org/policy/re0005.html

Breastfeeding After Reduction Surgery

• www.bfar.org

Breastfeeding—Frequently Asked Questions

• Breastfeeding information
  www.breastfeeding.com
• Jack Newman, M.D.
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/newman.shtml
• La Leche League
  www.lalecheleague.org/bfinfo.html
• Medela
  www.medela.com/NewFiles/bfdginfo.html
  
• National Women’s Health Information
  www.4woman.gov/Breastfeeding/bf.cfm?page=QandA

Crying and Infant Behavior

• Colic in the Breastfed Baby
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/2.html
• Preventive Ounce (about temperament)
  www.preventiveoz.org/
• Spirited Child  
  "Raising your spirited child," from iVillage 

Dental Health

• LLLI’s Breastfeeding and Dental Health 
  www.lalecheleague.org/NB/NBdental.html
• Brian Palmer, D.D.S.
  www.brianpalmerdds.com

Human Milk And Infant Formulas

• Breastfeeding Versus Formula Feeding
  www.lalecheleague.org/cbi/biospec.htm
• How Breastfeeding Protects Newborns
  www.promom.org/bf_info/sci_am.htm
• Immune Benefits of Breast Milk
  www.people.virginia.edu/%7Erjh9u/brmilk.html

Medications

• Breastfeeding Pharmacology (Tom Hale)
  http://neonatal.ttuhsc.edu/lact/
• Herbals and Breastfeeding
  www.uspharmacist.com/oldformat.asp?url=newlook/files/comp/acf1e63.htm
• Micromedex
  www.micromedex.com
• National Registry for Breastfeeding Research 
  http://neonatal.ttuhsc.edu/lact/html/lactation_registry.html
• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database (See also drugs listed under “Not Enough Milk” and “Yeast Infections”)
  www.naturaldatabase.com
   

Milk Banks

• Human Milk Banking Association of N. America 
  www.hmbana.com/

Not Enough Milk?

• Breast Compression
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/15.html
• Domperidone (Motilium)    
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/domperidone.shtml
• Fenugreek
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/fenugreek.shtml
• Metoclopramide (Reglan)    
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/reglan.shtml
• Protocol for "Not Enough Milk"   
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/notenough.html
• WHO guide 
  www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/New_Publications/NUTRITION/not_milk.pdf

Positioning and Latch 

• Diane Weissinger’s How Breastfeeding Works 
  www.wiessinger.baka.com/bfing/index.html
• Illustrations of how to latch 
  www.breastfeeding.com/helpme/helpme_images_latchon.html
• When Latching
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/31.html

Preterm Babies

• Breastfeeding Your Premature Baby (Paula Meier's Ross booklet)
  www.pediatrics.wisc.edu/patientcare/premies/BreastfeedingPremature.pdf 
• Cochrane Neonatal Group    
  www.nichd.nih.gov/cochrane/default.htm
• Expressing Milk For Your Premature Baby
  www.medela.com/NewFiles/preemie.html
• Family Village 
  www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/lib_prem.htm
• Gaining and Growing
  http://staff.washington.edu/growing/
• Kangarooing Our Little Miracles
  www.geocities.com/roopage/
• Parents of Premature Babies (Preemie-L)
  www.preemie-l.org/
• Pumping Moms Information Exchange
  www.pumpingmoms.org/index.html
• Breastfeeding Preterm Baby With A Nipple Shield
  www.medela.com/NewFiles/premienipshld.html
• Vermont Oxford Network    
  www.vtoxford.org/

Pumping and Storing Human Milk

• Effect of heat treatment/storage on human milk 
  www.latrobe.edu.au/microbiology/table7.html
• LLLI’s Tips for Storing Breast Milk
  www.lalecheleague.org/FAQ/milkstorage.html
• Pumping Moms Information Exchange
  www.pumpingmoms.org/faq-store.html
• Storing breastmilk
  www.4woman.gov/Breastfeeding/print-bf.cfm?page=237

Pumps, Pillows, Clothing, and Other Supplies

• Avent pumps, feeding supplies, Niplette  
  www.aventamerica.com
• Medela pumps and supplies    
  www.medela.com
• Motherwear clothing and supplies
  www.motherwear.com
• Nursing pillows (for singletons):
  Boppy
  www.boppy.com/
• My Breast Friend
  www.zenoffproducts.com/

Raynaud’s (vasospasm of the nipples)

• Nipple Vasospasm
  www.pediatrics.aapublications.org/cgi/content/full/113/4/e360

Reflux (Gastroesophageal reflux) in infants

• www.reflux.org/
• www.lalecheleague.org/NB/NBNovDec98p175.html
• Gastroesophageal Reflux in Infants

Sleep issues

• Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab   
  www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab
  
• Sleep problems 
  www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070100.asp

Twins, Triplets, Quadruplets

• National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs 
  http://www.nomotc.org/

Nursing pillows for twins:

• NurseMate www.onestepahead.com
• E-Z 2 Nurse     
  www.doubleblessings.com
• Triplet Connection 
  www.tripletconnection.org/
  (See also UWMC’s Expecting Multiples Resource Guide, available from Perinatal Education 206-598-4003)

Working mothers

• Info for mother, day care center, employer 
  www.hmhbwa.org/forprof/materials/BCW_packet.htm
• Legislation (Rep. Carolyn Maloney)
  www.house.gov/maloney/issues/breastfeeding/corplac.htm
• University of Washington Lactation Stations 
  www.washington.edu/admin/worklife/lactationsvc.html

Yeast infections

• Diflucan (Fluconazole)
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/20.html
• Gentian Violet
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/6.html
• Pat Gima’s Yeast Treatment Plan 
  www.breastfeedingonline.com/yeast.shtml

Organizations

• Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine   
  www.bfmed.org/
• American Academy of Pediatrics statement
  www.aap.org/policy/re9729.html
• Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
  home.onemain.com/~ct1008688/bfusa.htm
• Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington
  www.hmhbwa.org/forprof/BCW/home.html
• Breastfeeding Legislation
  www.house.gov/maloney/issues/breastfeeding/fedleg.html
• Bright Future Lactation Resource Center  
  www.bflrc.com/
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  www.cdc.gov
• Innocenti Declaration     
  www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/policy-innocenti.htm
• Institute of Medicine “Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation”
  www.nap.edu/books/0309047382/html/
• International Baby Food Action Network
  www.ibfan.org
• International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners 
  www.iblce.org
• International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (a summary) 
  www.ibfan.org/english/issue/code02.html
• International Lactation Consultant Association 
  www.ilca.org
• Lactnet
  http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=lactnet&m=23781
• National Guideline Clearinghouse   
  www.guideline.gov/
• National Women’s Health Information Center 
  www.4woman.gov/Breastfeeding/index.htm
• Public Health Seattle and King County  
  www.metrokc.gov/health/breastfeeding/
• PubMed National Library of Medicine 
  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
• World Health Organization    
  www.who.int

Extensive Breastfeeding Links

• Breastfeeding Resources (international) 
  www.borstvoeding.com/abon/bf-resources.html
• Jane's Breastfeeding and Childbirth Pages 
  www.breastfeeding.co.uk
• Medela
  www.medela.com/NewFiles/links1.html

Other Useful Tools

• Dietary Reference Intakes    
  www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000105.html
• Pounds to Kilograms Conversion Calculator  
  www.ex.ac.uk/trol/scol/
• Milk Intake Calculator    
  www.fourfriends.com/cgi-bin/milk.pl