Breastfeeding Coalition of Palm Beach County - Online Links for Professionals

Partners with
The Children's
Healing Institute

Helpful Downloads

	Support forBreastfeeding Families (English) Our brochure that provides a guide to getting help with breastfeeding. - Spanish
	Skin to Skin Contact for You and Your Baby Learn how skin to skin contact benefits babies and mothers. Download English or Spanish
	Making Milk is Easy! Learn 10 easy steps to make plenty of milk. Download English or Spanish
	Discharge Instructions Wwhat to know when you go home with your baby, including instructions on safe co-sleeping. Download English or Spanish

Our mission is to ensure a strong, positive climate of breastfeeding promotion, education and support through continued coordination of activities utilizing varied resources and a cooperative network of community individuals, organizations and agencies.

Online Links for Professionals

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
http://www.bfmed.org

American Academy of Family Physicians
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000401/2093.html

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/115/2/496

Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
http://www.babyfriendlyusa.org/eng/index.html

Breastfeeding Medicine publishes original scientific papers, reviews, and case studies on a wide spectrum of topics in lactation medicine
http://www.liebertpub.com/publication.aspx?pub_id=173

Breastfeeding Trends and Updated National Health Objectives for Exclusive Breastfeeding ---
United States, Birth Years 2000--2004
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5630a2.htm#tab1

Center for Breastfeeding Information (CBI)
http://www.llli.org/cbi/cbi.html

Florida Lactation Consultant Association
http://www.flca.info

Florida Statute and a Nursing Mother's Rights
Click Here

http://www.granitescientific.com
This is a wonderful new website on the latest scientific research on PP Depression and lots more.

Healthy People 2010
http://web.health.gov/healthypeople

Initiation of Breastfeeding by Breast Crawl
http://www.breastcrawl.org/video.htm

International Baby Food Action Network
http://www.ibfan.org/site2005/Pages/index2.php?iui=1

International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners
http://www.iblce.org

International Lactation Consultant Association
http://www.ilca.org

LINKAGES Project
http://www.linkagesproject.org

Thomas Hale, PhD, clinical pharmacologist and author of “Medications and Mother’s Milk”, is a world renowned expert in the
field of human lactation and the use of medications
http://www.iBreastfeeding.com

National Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health
http://www.ncemch.org

National Guideline Clearinghouse - evidence based guidelines for breastfeeding management
http://www.guideline.gov

Pan American Health Organization - Evidence Based Research
http://www.paho.org/English/HPP/HPN/Benefits_of_BF.htm

PubMed - a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations
http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/

TOXNET - Toxicology Data Network
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed) - A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.
http://www.toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT

UNICEF Breastfeeding Your Baby
Leaflets for new mothers with useful information on how to breastfeed successfully, including positioning and attachment, tips for success and a section on expressing your breast milk by hand. All documents are in PDFs. Select a language: