Lactation & Breastfeeding

Getting Started
• How to latch a baby who is struggling to breastfeed well using the exaggerated latch technique (video)
• Hospital breastfeeding tips (first 3 days)
• How many feedings & diapers each day?
• Laid Back Breastfeeding / Biological Nurturing (amazing 38 minute video)
• 3 Things You Must Know Before Breastfeeding
• Guidelines for finger feeding
• How to finger feed (video)
• Breast Massage & Hand expression
• How to spoon-feed newborn baby colostrum (video)
• Latch in 6 steps
• Step by step — Lactching 101
• Latch pic from mom’s view
• Flipple / exaggerated latch technique (video)
• Milk Storage Card (printable) - Kelly Mom
• Paced Bottle Feeding (video)
• What’s in breast milk compared to formula? (poster)
• Help show new moms how to breastfeed - for health care professionals (video)
• Nipple Shields - Kelly Mom
• What medications are safe to take while breastfeeding?
• Lact Dev’s Prenatal Breastfeeding Course (self-paced, online, 3 hours, $45)

Nipple Damage
• Healing damaged nipples
• MediHoney for healing damaged nipples

Low Supply
• Lactogenic foods & herbs
• Common Foods and Herbs Used as Galactogogues

Troubleshooting
• Wean off nipple shield - 10 step process
• Breast Abscesses - Treatment
• Treating Plugged Ducts with Therapeutic Ultrasound (research)
• Treating Plugged Ducts with Therapeutic Breast Massage (research)

Returning to Work
• Your rights as a breastfeeding employee
• Tips & tricks for pumping at work

Infants

Oral Ties (Tongue, Lip, and Cheek ties)
• How to examine a baby for lip and tongue tie
• Impact of Oral ties on Breastfeeding
• How the system can fail breastfeeding babies with oral ties and their families
• The importance of active wound management following frenotomy
• Pain-free Post Frenotomy Sleeping Tongue Posture Hold (video)
• Tummy Time Method™ (scroll down for handout)
• Tummy Time Method™ (video)
• Tummy Time Method™ Guppy (video)
• Tummy Time Method™ Rolio (video)
• Tummy Time Method™ Rock (video)

Development
• CDC Milestones (0-5 years)
• Infant Development Resource Website
• Baby sleep - biologically normal sleep
• How to Play with your baby
• Early Speech & Hearing milestones
• Early Play & Motor milestones

Other
• What is Early Intervention?
• Pacifier Use - pros & cons
• Ideas to calm fussy baby

Prenatal / Postpartum

• Find a Doula
• How to hire a postpartum doula
• Birth of a mother
• Safe cosleeping - James McKenna
• Postpartum Mood Disorders - Fact Sheet
• Fourth Trimester Support Circle (6-week virtual series) — The Nesting Place
• Postpartum Resource Center of New York
• Postpartum Bleeding after birth - What’s Normal?
• Benefits of Babywearing
• Solly baby wrap (favorite baby wrap for babies under 12 pounds)
• Take time for self care postpartum
• What medications are safe to take during pregnancy?
• Find a local mommy group
• Find a local mommy & me yoga class
• Look for free music classes & story time at your local library