Breastfeeding
Resource Brief
American
Academy of Pediatrics: Breastfeeding
Resources for consumers on starting and successfully continuing
breastfeeding, publications and other resources for professionals,
links to more information.
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention: Breastfeeding
Guidelines,
diseases and conditions that affect breast milk,
data and statistics, research projects under
way, breastfeeding promotion and support, policies
of the federal
government and major health organizations, additional
resources.
La
Leche League International
Information for parents,
parents-to-be, and professionals. Materials
in English, Chinese, Italian, Russian,
and Spanish, plus links to affiliates in 48 countries who provide information
in the country's national language, in English,
or both.
Index of local groups in states and territories
of the United States.
Medline
Plus: Breastfeeding
Pamphlets and fact sheets,
overviews, the latest news, nutrition, related
issues (breast pumps,
travel, breast conditions, common concerns),
research, directories of
midwives and La Leche League groups, organizations,
law and policy, the father's role, and sources of information
in other languages.
National
Women's Health Information Center: Breastfeeding
News,
consumer information.
U.S.
Department of Agriculture, WIC Program: Breastfeeding
Promotion and Support
Legislative history of breastfeeding
promotion requirements in WIC, current federal requirements,
descriptions
of programs, consumer materials.
From
the MCH Library databases
- Breastfeeding (consumer education materials)
- Breastfeeding promotion (for health professionals)
- Breastfeeding and working mothers (for consumers and health
professionals)
Additional organizations to contact
For more information on this topic, use the MCH Library Advanced Search.
Author: Olivia K.
Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library
September 2006
