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Resources

Resources

About This Page

This page is a nice way to familiarize yourself with evidence-driven lactation  information and resources. It is organized by topic. Established clients have access to our full resource library . Note that these pages do not replace the advice of your Health Care Provider, and you should seek their guidance prior to implementing any of these strategies. 

Lactation Resources

Books

  • The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, LLL
  • Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk, West & Marasco
  • Mother Multiples, Gromada
  • Adventures in Tandem Nursing, Flower
  • Mothering Your Nursing Toddler, Bumgarner
  • Breastfeeding Your Premature Baby,Gotsch
  • Breastfeeding and Diseases, Buescher, Hatcher
  • Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby and Relactation, by Elizabeth Horman


Breast Reduction and Augmentation

  • Breastfeeding after Breast and Nipple Surgeries


Medication 

  • Hale, Infant Risk


Relactation and Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby

  • Books and Publications:
    • Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby and Relactation, by Elizabeth Horman

Perinatal: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postpartum

. Websites

  • DONA
  • Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices

Books
  • The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth With Confidence, Lothian, Judith, and DeVries Charlotte * Included in Childbirth Class
  • Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newbornc Simkin, Penny, Whalley, Janet, and Keppler, Ann
  • The Birth Partner: Everything You Need to Know to Help a Woman through Childbirth.Simkin, Penny * Included in Childbirth Class
  • A Child Is Born,  Nilsson, Lennert
  • Ina Mae’s Guide to Childbirth. Gaskin, Ina Mae
  • The Doula Book.  Klaus, Marshall, Kennell, John, and Klaus, Phyllis 
  • Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth.  Goer, Henci
  • Your Amazing Newborn.  Klaus and Klaus.  
  • The Baby Book: Everything you Need to Know About Your Baby From Birth to Age 2. Sears and Sears.
  • Touchpoints, Brazelton
  • Your Baby and Child, Penelope Leach

Relaxation Techniques- Both Guided and Scripts

  • Calming Color Relaxation
  • Floating on a Cloud Relaxation
  • Stretch and Relax
  • Sleep Scripts
  • Autogenic Relaxation
  • Relaxation During Pregnancy Script


Videos

  • Healthy Birth Practices:
    •  Let Labor Begin On It's Own
    • Walk, Move Around and Change Positions in Labor
    • Bring a Friend or Doula for Continuous Support
    • Avoid Interventions that are Not Medically Necessary
    • Avoid Giving Birth On Your Back and Follow Your Urge to Push
    • Keep Mother and Baby Together
  • Birthing Positioning and Comfort Measures
    • Pros and Cons of Positions
    • Rebozo Techniques
    • Labor with an Epidrual
    • Pushing with an Epidural
    • Chatham-Kent Health- Excellent Recap of Comfort Measures
  • Labor and Birth
    • Transition
    • Animation of Labor and Birth
    • Into the Womb
    • Everyday Miracles
    • Woman Centered Cesarean
  • Other
    • Birth by Numbers


Downloads

We have created these hands outs for providers to share with their clients. 

Prenatal Preparation for Lactation (pdf)Download
Postpartum Lactation FAQs (pdf)Download
Milk Expression (pdf)Download
Caring for Mastitis and Engorgement (pdf)Download
Caring for Cracked Nipples (pdf)Download
Feeding and Pumping Log (png)Download
Pumping Calculation Worksheet (png)Download

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