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Topics are referenced under Local, Lactation and Perinatal (Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum)  

• Original Videos can be found on our YouTube Channel. 

Local Lactation Support (please see further down for helpful non local resources

• La Leche League of North Carolina 
• Mocha Moms

Local Breast Specialists

• UNC's Dr Stuebe, must call warm line for an appointment  984-974-8078
• Duke's Dr. Rosenberger 
• Emerge Ortho Dr. Baerman

Local Postpartum Mental Health Support- You are not alone

• Postpartum Support International (NC Chapter)
• Postpartum International 1-800-944-4773   24 Hour Help Line in English and Spanish
• UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders

• 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
  
  Handouts and Resources, General
  
• Lactation Education Resources
• Jack Newman
• Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition
• Kelly Mom
• Nancy Mohrbacher
• International Breastfeeding Journal

  
  

  Allergies/ Intolerance

• ABM Clinical Protocol

    Anesthesia 

• ABM Clinical Protocol

Breast Reduction and Augmentation

• Breastfeeding after Breast and Nipple Surgeries

Candida, See Thrush

Cleft Palate

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqqYQlKDeA
• http://www.bfmed.org/Media/Files/Protocols/Protocol_17.pdf
• www.llli.org/nb/nbmarapr09p12.html
• http://www.stlouischildrens.org/our-services/cleft-palate-and-craniofacial-institute/tips-feeding-infant-cleft-lip
  

Complementary/ Supplemental Feedings

• Bottle First Method
• Cup Feeding
• Video: Finger Feeding
• Video: Supplemental Nursing System
• Video: How to Use a Haberman Feeder
• Paced Bottle Feeding

Contraception and Breastfeeding

Engorgement

Growth and Weight Gain

• WHO Growth Chart for Breastfed Babies

Hand Expression
Video: Håndmelking
Video: Marmet Hand Expression Technique
Video: Hand Expression, Stanford University

Video: The Basics of Breast Massage and Expression

Hypoglycemia 

Hypoplasia

• http://kellymom.com/bf/got-milk/supply-worries/insufficient-glandular-tissue/
• http://www.lowmilksupply.org/abs.shtml (2 types of at-breast supplementers pros & cons)
• http://www.breastfeedinginc.ca/content.php?pagename=vid-lactaid (video of insertion)
• http://www.bestforbabes.org/yes-you-can-breastfeed-successfully-no-matter-how-much-milk-you-make
• http://www.007b.com/breast_size_breastfeeding.php
• http://www.sonic.net/~mollyf/igt/ has pictures
• http://mommynewsblog.com/every-drop-matters-why-breastfeeding-is-not-all-or-nothing/
• http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2d427022#/2d427022/8 (Diane W & Diana W write about at long-term breast supplementer)
• http://kellymom.com/bf/normal/picture-of-success/

Jaundice


Laws of Public Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding Law and Advocacy

Let Down and DMER

• What is a Let Down Reflex?
• Video: Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex 

Maintaining and Building a Milk Supply

• Video:  Establishing & Maintaining an Adequate Milk Supply For the Mother with a Preterm or High Risk Infant Who is Unable to Breastfeed at Birth
• Video: Maximizing Milk Production: Hands on Pumping

Mastitis
What is Mastitis?, Dr. Sears
Newman, Mastitis
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol

Medication 

• Nice Breastfeeding, Non Prescription
• Lact Med, Tox Net
• Hale, Infant Risk
• Meds Milk

Milk Supply, Increasing

• Dr Sears, Tips on Increasing Supply
• Herbs Used to Help Increase Supply (please note that information is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe herbs for low milk supply. Please consult your healthcare practitioner)
• Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Galactogogues

 
Nursing Strikes/ Breast Refusal

• LLL Nursing Strikes

Nutrition

• Kelly Mom: Nutrition Section

Overactive Letdown

• http://overactiveletdown.com/
• http://www.thebadassbreastfeeder.com/ask-an-expert-how-to-deal-with-fast-milk-flow/

Oversupply

• Video: Reverse Pressure Softening
• Video: Hand Expression
• Engorgement
• Breast Compression
• Video: Breast Compression

Plugged Ducts, Blebs, Also see Mastitis

• Nipple Bleb
• Dealing with a Plugged Duct
• ILCA's Dealing with Mastitis
• http://kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mother/mastitis/
• Lecithin
• Blisters on Nipples
• Newman on Blebs and Plugged Ducts

Positioning, Nursing

• Video: The Breast Crawl
• Video: Baby Led Nursing
• Breastfeeding Positions
• http://www.llli.org/nb/nbearlyweeks.html
• http://www.llli.org/faq/enough.html
• http://www.llli.org/faq/positioning.html

Preterm Infants and Breastfeeding

• Video:The Biology and Chemistry of How Mother’s Milk Optimizes Preterm Infant Health
• Video:  Establishing & Maintaining an Adequate Milk Supply For the Mother with a Preterm or High Risk Infant Who is Unable to Breastfeed at Birth
• The Late Preterm Infant, ABM

Radiation, MRI, CATSCAN, Contrasts

• http://www.infantrisk.com/content/recommendations-radiocontrast-agents
• http://www.clinicallactation.org/article.php?id=16&journal_id=6 
• http://www.breastfeedingmaterials.com/publicdownloads/Contrast-Dye-Poster-back.pdf
• http://www.drugs.com/breastfeeding/technetium-tc-99m-medronate.html
• http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/breastfeeding/a/bfing_drugs_3.htm

Reflux 

• http://www.kiddsteeth.com/articles/aerophagia_2011.pdf
• http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877%2805%2900008-3/abstract
• http://kellymom.com/health/baby-health/reflux/
• http://kellymom.com/bf/concerns/child/fussy-while-nursing
• http://www.choosingwisely.org/doctor-patient-lists/american-academy-of-pediatrics/ 

Relactation and Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby

• Books and Publications:
  • Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby and Relactation, by Elizabeth Horman
  • Australian Breastfeeding Association. Relactation and Adoptive Breastfeeding. East Malvern, Victoria: Australian Breastfeeding Association; 2004 April.
• Protocols for Induced Lactation

Returning to Work 

• Work and Pump
• Video: Maximizing Milk Production: Hands on Pumping
• Dr. Sears, 20 Tips for Working and Breastfeeding
• Breastfeeding Works
• http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/blog/tag/for-employed-nursing-mothers
• http://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/milkcalc.html
• http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/Employment/WorkplaceSupport/WorkplaceSupportinFederalLaw/tabid/175/Default.aspx
• http://womenshealth.gov/breastfeeding/going-back-to-work/index.html
• http://www.usbreastfeeding.org 

Reverse Pressure Softening

• Kelly Mom

Storage of Milk

• http://www.prolacta.com/research.php
• http://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/milkstorage/frozen-milk-power-outage/
• http://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/milkstorage/milkstorage/
• http://www.kellymom.com/store/freehandouts/milkstorage01.pdf
• http://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/milkstorage/milkstorage-preemie/
• http://www.bfmed.org/Media/Files/Protocols/2014_Updated_Mastitis6.30.14.pdf

Suck Training

• Lisa Queen of Rex ENT
• http://feedthebabyllc.com/suckling-exercises/
• http://www.justbreastfeeding.com/sore-nipple-management/suck-training-tool-breastfed-baby/
• http://www.bfar.org/bottlefeeding.pdf 

Supporting The Breastfeeding Relationship

• Video: Breastfeeding – Why Parents and Healthcare Providers Should Care

Thrush/ Yeast

• Best for Babes
• Jack Newman Ointment
• Dr. Sears, Diagnosing and Treating Thrush
• NCBI, Gentian Violet

Thyroid Issues

• http://kellymom.com/health/mom-health/thyroid-faq  
• http://www.allthyroid.org/disorders/pregnancy/problems.html
• http://www.theboobgroup.com/thyroid-can-affect-milk-supply/#

Tongue Tie

• Video of a Release
• Photos of Ties
• Video of Hazelbaker Assessment Tool
• Rex ENT, Dr. Garside

Torticollis

• http://www.lunalactation.com/011Nov_InsideTrack_toticollis.pdf
• http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-15/health/ct-met-bumbo-posture-20120315_1_physical-therapists-developmental-benefits-babies

Traveling with Breastmilk

• TSA Regulations

Triage Tools

• Nipple Pain

Twins and Multiples

• http://www.bestforbabes.org/booby-traps-series-booby-traps-for-moms-of-twins-or-more-part-1
• http://www.bestforbabes.org/booby-traps-series-booby-traps-for-moms-of-twins-or-more-part-2
• http://www.karengromada.com/faq/
• http://www.isisonline.org.uk/twins/cobedding/
• https://www.dur.ac.uk/sleep.lab/projects/twins/ sleep cobedding
• Triplets: http://themilkmeg.com/breastfeeding-triplets-tips-video-montage-and-pictures/
• http://www.theboobgeek.com/blog/5-tips-for-early-success-when-breastfeeding-twins-or-more.html

Under Supply, See Milk Supply

Vasospasm/ Raynauds

• Video of a Vasospasm
• http://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mom/nipple-blanching.html
• https://www.facebook.com/notes/breastfeeding-center-of-pittsburgh/a-note-from-dr-brent-on-raynauds-syndrome-vasospasm/348940435160704
• http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/4/e360.full.pdf+html
• http://www.breastfeedinginc.ca/content.php?pagename=doc-V-RP

Vitamin D

• http://blog.vitamindcouncil.org/2012/06/25/the-breastfeeding-mother-breast-milk-as-a-biomarker/
• http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/20/246393329/how-a-vitamin-d-test-misdiagnosed-african-americans
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24256378
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24290111
• http://blogs.creighton.edu/heaney/2014/06/05/vitamin-d-and-the-nursing-mother/

Weaning, Including Introducing Solids

• Baby Led Weaning
• Whole Foods for Babe, not Rice Cereal

Weight Loss, Infant Includes IV and Weight Loss Due to Edema

• http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/6/1/9
• http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/6/1/10
• http://www.nbci.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47%3Aslow-weight-gain-following-early-good-weight-gain&catid=5%3Ainformation&Itemid=17
• http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/blog/2011/10/31/newborn-weight-loss-and-iv-fluids-in-labor.html
• http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/pdf/1746-4358-6-9.pdf
• http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/1/e171.abstract
• http://www.bfmed.org/Media/Files/Protocols/Protocol%203%20English%20Supplementation.pdf
• http://www.drjen4kids.com/soap%20box/newbornweight.htm

Weight Gain, Infant 

• http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/who/grchrt_boys_24lw_9210.pdf
• http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/who/grchrt_girls_24lw_9210.pdf
• http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/growth/weight-gain.html

Additional Info
Medical Dictionary
Pronunciation of Medical Terms
Medical Terms, LER
Medical Abbreviations
Pictures of Infant Interventions and Anatomy 

. Websites

• DONA
• Childbirth Connection
• Rights of the Childbearing Woman
• Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices
• Spinning Babies

• 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

• http://americanpregnancy.org/labor-and-birth/birth-plan/
• Childbirth Connection

Relaxation Techniques- Both Guided and Scripts

• Calming Color Relaxation
• Chopra Guided Meditations
• 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

Food Scheduling (for friends to schedule bringing meals to family)

• Meal Train
• Food Tidings

Books

• 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