I just added a category of links on my library page for health care providers. These are resources for people that are working with breastfeeding women and babies that need information about medications, evidence-based protocols for common situations, and donor milk. I will add more over time.
Category: General Info
Dads vulnerable to depression too
It looks like we just plain need to pay attention to new parents. Both new mothers and fathers need care and support. Here’s a link to an NPR story summarizing a study of new fathers and depression. Pregnancy-related depression comes as a surprise to most men it hits. Psychologist Will Courtenay of Berkeley, Calif., has…
Latching On – the movie
It’s not a how-to movie but a cultural documentary about breastfeeding in America. Here is the trailer:
Wisconsin’s new breastfeeding law
Governor Doyle just signed a new law that protects mothers and babies that are breastfeeding in public. Breastfeeding in public has always been legal in Wisconsin but in the past mothers didn’t have protection from harassment. Now they do – and protection with a penalty for the person that tells them to stop. The law…
Eating well
When we’re thinking about feeding babies the very best food – mother’s milk – we should also think about feeding the rest of the family well. One of my very favorite cookbook authors is Deborah Madison. She writes super tasty recipes for nutritious local foods. She also has written a book about eating alone —…
Big can be Beautiful (but also challenging)
Larger ladies can have a harder time with pregnancy and breastfeeding. Despite intending to breastfeed, women with higher body mass index (BMI) wean earlier as a group. There seem to be more obstacles to breastfeeding for these mamas. To help them, here’s a website devoted to plus-size women and their babies: Kmom’s Plus-Size Pregnancy Index….
Carnival of Breastfeeding
I wrote the following post for the Happy Bambino blog as part of the Carnival of Breastfeeding. I’m putting it below for those of you that don’t (yet) read Happy Bambino’s blog. – Adria As part of our Carnival of Breastfeeding this post looks at the tough problem of what to do when you, the…
“Best for Babes”
If you read the gossip magazines (what else should we do in line at the grocery store?) then you’ve noticed how being pregnant is hip and sexy. Rather than hiding from the camera all those celebrities are parading their baby bumps. It’s ok to be pregnant these days. What if breastfeeding could become just as…
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Here’s a video of a baby playing on the floor: What’s wrong with the picture? It is only a baby. No mother. No father. No grandma or grandpa or aunt or neighbor or big sister. Babies need adults to thrive and survive. In modern society we often forget about this without even being aware that…
Lord Voldemort and breastfeeding?
I confess I’m a fan of the Harry Potter books. So I enjoyed seeing the title of a working paper published by Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health: ‘Voldemort’ and Health Professional Knowledge of Breastfeeding — Do Journal Titles and Abstracts Accurately Convey Findings on Differential Health Outcomes for Formula Fed Infants? For a…
Madison Breastfeeding Help 