Education & Support Groups

La Leche League of New York

NYU Langone Hospital:

• Parent Education & Support Groups

• Prenatal Breastfeeding Basics-Live Online

• Breastfeeding Cafe-Live Online

Breastfeeding videos

Global Health Media has a series of breastfeeding videos that are helpful and free to watch.

• First Droplets by Dr. Jane Morton, MD has many created many educational videos including: hand expression of colostrum, pumping, breastfeeding a premature infant and more!

• First hours after birth‍ ‍Please note that labor and birth circumstances and interventions can impact breastfeeding initiation. If your baby did not latch during your hospital stay, don’t panic. With support, you and your baby can still establish breastfeeding successfully. Below are additional breastfeeding videos:

• Breastfeeding Positions

• Nipple Pain

• Reverse Pressure Softening technique to alleviate edema (fluid accumulation in the areola) and help baby latch.

Additional free lactation videos & handouts

• Lymphatic Drainage technique for relieving breast edema (fluid accumulation) during pregnancy and early lactation demonstrated by Dr. Katrina Mitchell, MD, IBCLC

• Mastitis Spectrum handout ABM (including engorgement treatment)

• IABLE Parent Handouts: Breast swelling/engorgement & “Clogged” ducts

• Medications and Lactation‍ ‍andOver-The-Counter Medicationsmost medications are compatible with lactation.

• Nipple/wound care

Breastfeeding, safe sleep, human milk storage and more:

• Safe Sleep 7 Safe sleep critieria and surface checklist for bed-sharing

• Bed-sharing and Breastfeeding and Physiologic Infant Care information from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM)

• Physicians Guide to Breastfeedingby Dr. Katrina Mitchell, MD, IBCLC, PMH-C

• Breast Milk Storage : Center for Disease Control CDC&ABM Clinical protocol #8 Human Milk Storage for Full Term Infants

• Free to Feed: Evidence based info on food intolerance, allergies, reflux, elimination diets and more!

• Newborn Weight ToolNEWThelpful for tracking infant weight gain/loss

• Planning to breastfeeding and want to encapsulate your placenta? Please understand the risks associated with placenta consumption and milk production before you do. Check out placentarisks.org for more information.