My daughter “feeding” her baby.
Book Recommendations
The Art of Breastfeeding, 9th Edition
by: La Leche League International
Safe Infant Sleep
by: James McKenna, PhD
The Wonder Weeks
by: Xaviera Plooij, PhD & Hetty Van de Rijt, PhD
Lactation Resources
Education & Support Groups
NYU Langone Hospital:
NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital:
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:
Reverse Pressure Softening technique to alleviate edema and help baby latch.
Additional free lactation videos & handouts
Lymphatic Drainage technique for relieving breast edema during pregnancy and early lactation demonstrated by Dr. Katrina Mitchell, MD, IBCLC
Mastitis Spectrum handout (including engorgement treatment)
Medications and Lactation and Over-The-Counter Medications most medications are compatible with lactation.
Breastfeeding, safe sleep, human milk storage and more:
La Leche League International: Breastfeeding A-Z answers to many breastfeeding and infant care topics and questions.
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 Breastfeeding by 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 Tool NEWT helpful 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.