Links
Benefits of Breastfeeding
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Dr. Sears’ (renown pediatrician and father) website
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- La Leche League
Breastfeeding Rights
- Breastfeeding Rights in the United States
- FirstRight — Breastfeeding Advocacy Group (U.S.A.)
- Breastfeeding Rights in Canada
How Breastfeeding Works
Interesting Information on Breast Milk & Breastfeeding
- How breast milk protects newborns
- How breast milk is produced
- Ask Moxie: Why is it so hard to breastfeed a baby?
- Kellymom site (excellent resource for breastfeeding information)
- Dr. Jack Newman’s site (very informative)
- Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition (breastfeeding advocacy group)
- The Breastcrawl (especially informative for pregnant women)
- Karen Kerkhoff Gromada (information on breastfeeding and mothering twins and other multiples)
- Nurse Here Now
- Male lactation article
- The purpose of breasts
- International Breastfeeding Journal (open-access medical articles about lactation)
- You can’t make cheese out of breast milk (though this site sells cheese supposedly made with human milk — originally French site Google-translated into English)
- Free children’s book about breastfeeding: What Babies Eat. Beautiful illustrations, awesome book!
Pumping
- A quick overview of pumping
- Pump moms online support group
- Kellymom pumping help
- Exclusively pumping support (ivillage.com)
- Pumping forum (very supportive)
- Exclusively Pumping
- Yahoo Group for moms who must exclusively pump because their babies are completely unable to nurse (not for moms who pump part-time or who pump by choice)
- How do I know I’ve got the right size breastshield? (Medela informative page with video)
- Ameda pumping page for exclusively pumping moms (recommended by a mama who exclusively pumped for her son for 28 months!)
Breast Milk Storage
- Dr. Sears’ storage guidelines
- Kellymom storage guidelines
- LLL storage guidelines
- Medela storage guidelines
- U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Guidelines
- CDC breast milk storage guidelines
Low-Supply and Other Special Breastfeeding Situations
- Breastfeeding After Breast and Nipple Surgery (with message board)
- Low Milk Supply (sister site to bfar.org)
- Mothers Overcoming Breastfeeding Issues (MOBI)
- Adoptive Breastfeeding Resource Website (with active message board)
- Breastfeeding with PCOS blog
- Soulcysters (PCOS message board)
- One Mother’s Adoptive Breastfeeding Journal
- Ask Lenore
- Lact-Aid (at-breast supplementer)
Milk Bank and Informal Milk Donation Information (North America)
- The Human Milk Banking Association of North America (gives locations of truly non-profit milk banks)
- MilkShare (informal milk donation, or milk sharing, where you can meet the recipient/donor of your milk)
- La Leche League page on milk bank donation
- First page of a journal article from August 1938 talking about a milk bank in New York (The Mothers’ Milk Bureau)
- TIME article from June 24, 1946 about the Mothers’ Milk Bureau in Manhattan
- Fascinating book on wet-nursing: A Social History of Wet Nursing in America
International Milk Bank Information
- United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking (locations of milk banks in UK page)
- Adresse des lactariums et banques de lait en France (French page that gives locations and phone numbers of milk banks, or lactariums, in France)
- Australia Mother’s Milk Bank
- Bancos de Leite Humano no Brasil (milk banks in Brazil — in Portuguese)
- Información sobre el banco de leche materna en España (page in Spanish about the milk bank in Spain)
- Article about the inauguration of Argentina’s first milk bank (Spanish)
- Article about new iThemba Lethu breast milk bank in South Africa (English)
- Canada milk bank (English)
- Article about India’s milk bank in Mumbai (English)
- Article about Ireland’s only milk bank
Nursing/Pumping Apparel
- Jan Andrea’s nursing shirt patterns and ideas
- Micki’s instructions for converting two regular shirts into a nursing top
For-Profit Milk Banking Schemes (if you want your breast milk to be sold for a profit without any monetary compensation to you whatsoever while ALSO losing the rights to your milk completely, please visit the following links):
- Prolacta Bioscience (for-profit human milk processing company)
- The International Breast Milk Project (entity sponsored by for-profit company, Prolacta, who receives 75% of the donated milk from IBMP and then resells it)
- Milkbanking.net (gives locations of milk banks that sell all their milk to Prolacta, a for-profit company)
- National Milk Bank (FOR-PROFIT MILK FUNNEL that sells all its milk to Prolacta, another for-profit company)
