Resources

Note:
Dear parent or health care practitioner: this reference list was personally curated to inform, support, and supplement the material in our educational programming. This list is frequently updated and expanded. Feel free to bookmark this page for your personal use. -Zina

Childbirth Resources

Breastfeeding Resources

Your Guide to Breastfeeding:
https://www.womenshealth.gov/publications/our-publications/breastfeeding-guide/Your-Guide-to-Breastfeeding-508_final.pdf

Finding a breastfeeding friendly provider:
https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/prenatal/decisions-to-make/pages/Finding-a-Breastfeeding-Friendly-Doctor.aspx

Breastfeeding Benefits:

Breastfeeding reduces risk of cardiovascular disease:
https://womenshealthtoday.blog/2017/03/30/why-breastfeeding-lowers-womens-risk-of-cardiovascular-and-metabolic-diseases/?platform=hootsuite
"So how does breastfeeding lower women’s risk for metabolic and cardiovascular disease? The Dunedin study demonstrates that an upregulated stress response increases the risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease. But what does breastfeeding do? Several studies conducted with mothers of infants have shown that breastfeeding downregulates stress in both mothers and babies. In fact, after breastfeeding, women are less stress-responsive in laboratory settings, meaning that when researchers try to stress them in the half-hour or so after breastfeeding, the mothers show less of a stress response. That’s the short-term effect of breastfeeding. The results of the those studies on cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome suggest that breastfeeding has a far longer term stress-lowering effect than anyone suspected. Breastfeeding appears to have permanently changed women’s stress response, lowering their overall risk of disease in their 60s, 70s and beyond."

Understanding Stooling and Diapering:

Diaper pictures of breastfed baby:
http://www.breastfeedingmaterials.com/view-breastfed-baby-stool

Bowel movement mysteries (colors):
http://drjaygordon.com/medical-concerns/poop.html

Growth Charts:

World Health Organization Child Growth Standards:
http://www.who.int/nutrition/media_page/backgrounders_3_en.pdf

WHO Growth Chart Recommended for Children 0-2:
https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/who_charts.htm

Using the growth charts:
https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/growthcharts/who/breastfeeding/index.htm

Growth Chart Misuse: Should BF babies have higher than average weight gain?:
https://breastfeedingusa.org/content/article/should-all-breastfed-babies-have-above-average-weight-gains

Breastfeeding Positions:

"Biological Nurturing":
http://www.biologicalnurturing.com

Sample video of biological nurturing:
http://www.biologicalnurturing.com/video/bn3clip.html

Optimal positions release neonatal primitive reflexes that stimulate breastfeeding:
http://www.earlyhumandevelopment.com/article/S0378-3782(07)00242-3/abstract

(Practitioners) Promoting nature in breastfeeding support:
http://www.biologicalnurturing.com/assets/articles/Colson(2008)%20%20Bringing%20Nature%20to%20the%20ForeTPM%208(11)%2014-19.pdf

Milk Composition:

Worries about fore milk and hind milk:
https://breastfeedingusa.org/content/article/worries-about-foremilk-and-hindmilk

Diaper Output:
https://breastfeedingusa.org/content/article/diaper-output-and-milk-intake-early-weeks

Breastfeeding Challenges or Problems:

Hypoplasia: http://kellymom.com/bf/got-milk/supply-worries/insufficient-glandular-tissue/

Scheduled Feedings:
http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/babywise-linked-to-babies-dehydration.html

Spitting up and reflux in breastfed baby:
http://kellymom.com/health/baby-health/reflux/

Two resources that are helpful to many mothers who nurse beyond U.S. cultural norms are: Mothering Your Nursing Toddler (Bumgarner, 2000) and How Weaning Happens (Bengson, 2000)