La Leche League
Click here to download a helpful free leaflet, Beginning Breastfeeding, from the LLL.
Do bookmark the Flintshire Feeders site before you leave us.
And please let me know if a link has broken.
And please let me know if a link has broken.
Links to helpful webpages
- Breast crawl - initiating bf (6 minute video)
- Best for Babes
- Assoc of Breastfeeding Mothers
- National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
- La Leche League GB - click here to find their new Toolkit of helpful free info sheets. Especially liked the one named "What mothers need to know".
- Articles by Dr Newman (Canada)
- NHS BF site, or the new Start4life pages on BF and feeding
- KellyMom
- Good general advice from the NHS in Sunderland
- BBC breastfeeding page
- Great advice here - How BF Works
- Carnivals of blogs about breastfeeding
- Site aimed at Fathers
- Medela website - facts about breasts & their milk. See also section on successful breastfeeding
- Breastmilk compares with...
- Human Milk Banking, eg Countess of Chester
- The Baby Friendly Initiative
- Don't Panic! Kill or Cure site tells us about the overdramatic representations of Science in my favourite newspaper. Always best to read around & think it through. Look for Breastfeeding under B, and you'll see that Babies "can" both cause and prevent cancer. Also of interest there?...Bisphenol A, baby bottles.
- Images of breastfeeding Mums
- Be a Star campaign for Lancashire
- A collection here of inspiring art & poems about feeding children.
- Two useful videos in this site from a US hospital - see Hand expression, and also Maximising Milk Production.
- http://www.babyfriendly.org.uk
- http://www.avent.com
- http://ardomums.co.uk/
- http://www.breastpumps.co.uk
- http://www.medela.com
Co-sleeping helps many breastfeeding families:
- Film cartoon from Kate Evans' book, "The Food of Love"
- Advice on safe co-sleeping from Dr James McKenna - and much more on the site, too.
Links for information which may be particularly useful to those attending the Breastfeeding training course for Peer Support Project Volunteers:
- Breast crawl - initiating bf (6 minute video)
- KellyMom
- Bumpology on the New Scientist site - see ultrasound video of how a baby suckles (12/5/2010).
- Compare and contrast how these mothers are being helped. Dr Jane Morton at Stanford Hospital, and La Leche League (laid-back approach).
- BF Peer Supporter Project won an award, 2007
- What Breastmilk can do - Dr John May's work shows results of Breastmilk killing off infectious agents in vitro - antibacterial, antiviral, antiparasitic.
- Breastmilk and AIM compared, nutrient by nutrient (Dr Sears)
- Details on UK formula milk products - tables from the trade body.
- Latest on Foremilk/hindmilk
- What BF Support looks like.
Links to forums where breastfeeding issues are discussed
Acronyms are widely used on forums. Confused? Try this guide, HTH, IYKWIM!!
A bit of small print, though - these forums are great places to find a supportive ear... but not always to find helpful, reliable advice. (For example, you can read here about NetMums, and also here see a forum where very little proBF advice was given until it was highlighted by Armadillo. Especially avoid any forums/helplines which are funded by F***ula manufacturers - would you go to your local butcher to find out how to make Nut Roast for a vegetarian guest?)
If you need facts, try KellyMom... if you need common sense, try Dr Newman. If you need someone to listen to you right now, use a helpline or see below. Otherwise we'll see you at the next drop-in group!
- La Leche League Mother-to-Mother
- Natural Mamas
- Breastbuddies
- iVillage
- Mumsnet BF & Bottlefeeding forum
(Any more? - let us know!!)
Links on other Parenting Topics - here.
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