Information You Can Share with Your Health Care Providers

Sometimes you need authoritative sources for breastfeeding information that you can share with health care providers--or your mother. Below are some documents written for professionals that we thought might be of use to you.

From the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Task Force

The 2010 Breastfeeding-Friendly Approach to Depression in New Mothers: A Curriculum and Resource Guide for Health Care Professionals

Literature Reviews on Breastfeeding as the Biological Norm

Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2007)

Evidence on long-term effects of breastfeeding: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses (World Health Organization, 2007)

From the American Academy of Pediatrics

• 2005 Statement on Breastfeeding and Use of Human Milk
  

• Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals into Human Milk
  

• Jaundice (Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation)
  

• Tongue-tie (Congenital Tongue-tie and Its Impact on Breastfeeding)
  

• Oral Health Risk Assessment Timing and Establishment of the Dental Health
  

Clinical Protocols from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine

• Cosleeping Guidelines
  

• Storing Milk
  

• Mastitis
  

• Breastfeeding the Near Term Infant
  

• Hypoglycemia
  

• Going Home Protocol
  

• Supplementary Feeding for the Breastfed Neonate
  

• Analgesia and Anesthesia for the Breastfeeding Mother
  

• Breastfeeding Friendly Physician’s Office
  

• Contraception and Breastfeeding
  

• Using Galactagogues in Initiating or Augmenting Maternal Milk Supply
  

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