Ilithyia Inspired Birth Servant: Breastfeeding Websites

Friday, May 25, 2007

Breastfeeding Websites

A comprehensive list of breastfeeding resources in Australia and around the world, compiled and maintained at the Joyous Birth online forum. Includes sites, phone numbers, online footage, books, articles, FAQs, etc.

Australian Breastfeeding Association

The online home of The ABA. Complete with information about the association, how to train with them, how to find support and assistance with breastfeeding, mountains of information regarding breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding Art

Beautiful and funky artwork featuring women and goddesses breastfeeding. A free picture book entitled "What Kids Eat" is available for download, and you are able to purchase your very own copies of the artwork.

Breastfeeding.com

An online haven of information and opportunities for interaction with lactation consultants and other breastfeeding mothers. Site include stacks of photos, videos, as well as slideshows and games, a section for professionals, lists of celebrities who breastfeed, and blogs by breastfeeding "experts".

Breastfeeding Guru
Breastfeeding Guru is a place for pregnant and already nursing mothers to find community, research based information and education, product reviews, advocacy, and support. Please excuse us while we are still under construction and in a beta format. Feel free to join in or start up discussion in our forums. Look forward to the latest in breastfeeding research from the ILCA conference, hot product reviews, and the addition of a special section for Mom's to add their own breastfeeding stories and photos.

Breastfeeding Mums.com

Breastfeeding Mums is where you'll find an abundance of unique and informative pregnancy, birth, brestfeeding and baby articles, plus pregnancy and breastfeeding photo galleries, videos, stories and much more!

Breastfeeding Online

A website which recognises that breastfeeding is a human rights and feminist issue, as well as women's issue. The site aims to help empower women to choose to breastfeed and to educate society at large about the importance and benefits of breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Task Force
This is the website of The Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles, which is dedicated to improving the health and well being of infants and families through education, outreach, and advocacy to promote and support breastfeeding.

Dr Jack Newman

The website of a Canadian pediatrician with a passion for breastfeeding, who has been practicing medicine since 1970. Includes helpful footage, images, articles and FAQs. Newman established the first hospital-based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984, and is a consultant with UNICEF's Baby Friendly Hosptail Initiative.

Global Breastfeeding

Created by Ted Greiner, and academic with a particular interest in nutrition and breastfeeding. Includes art gallery, podcasts, a blog, and powerpoint presentations. The site aims to make the world a place where breastfeeding works better for mothers and babies.

ibreastfed.com
A fabulous collection of personal breastfeeding stories from mothers who have overcome a wide range of challenges to feed their babies. A must read for all parents. Includes a fabulous photo gallery as well.

International Breastfeeding Journal

The online home of a comprehensive collection of academic articles and research papers concerning breastfeeding. All articles are open to the public to read, download and quote.

Kellymom

A one stop online source for anything and everything you need or want to know about breastfeeding. The site was developed to provide evidence-based information on breastfeeding, but also sleep and parenting.

La Leche League

The online home of North Americas' national breastfeeding association. Includes tons of breastfeeding resources and publications.

Lactivist

Created by a lactation activist, the lactivist is a warehouse of information about breastfeeding. Contains lists of online resources, suggestions for solutions to breastfeeding difficulties, and more.

Lavtivists.org

A site dedicated to encouraging women not to be embarrassed by breastfeeding. Includes great banners for websites and forum signatures. The site is still under development and if you can lend a hand be sure to contact them.

Mama Knows Breast

The website of Andi Silverman, a journalist, lawyer, and breastfeeding mother. Andi is the author of a book

ProMoM
Promotion of Mother's Milk, Inc. (ProMoM) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness and public acceptance of breastfeeding.

Quotes
A list of quotations about breastfeeding at The Quote Garden.

The Lactivist at Cafepress

The online gift shop maintained by The Lactivist blog. All products sold advocate and promote breastfeeding.

Why is Artificial Baby Milk So Bad?

An informative discussion thread on the Breastfeeding is Normal! subform of Joyous Birth. Includes links to articles and useful information.

The World Health Organisation Says

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants; it is also an integral part of the reproductive process with important implications for the health of mothers. As a global public health recommendation, infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health. Thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years of age or beyond . Exclusive breastfeeding from birth is possible except for a few medical conditions, and unrestricted exclusive breastfeeding results in ample milk production.”

World Health Organisation Says

Birth Is Not An Illness

These 16 recommendations are based on the principle that each woman has a fundamental right to receive proper prenatal care: that the woman has a central role in all aspects of this care, including participation in the planning, carrying out and evaluation of the care: and that social, emotional and psychological factors are decisive in the understanding and implementation of proper prenatal care.

1. The whole community should be informed about the various procedures in birth care, to enable each woman to choose the type of birth care she prefers.

2. The training of professional midwives or birth attendants should be promoted. Care during normal pregnancy and birth and following birth should be the duty of this profession.

3. Information about birth practices in hospitals (rates of cesarean sections, etc.) should be given to the public served by the hospitals.

4. There is no justification in any specific geographic region to have more than 10-15% cesarean section births.

5. There is no evidence that a cesarean section is required after a previous transverse low segment cesarean section birth. Vaginal deliveries after a cesarean should normally be encouraged wherever emergency surgical capacity is available.

6. There is no evidence that routine electronic fetal monitoring during labor has a positive effect on the outcome of pregnancy.

7. There is no indication for pubic shaving or a pre-delivery enema.

8. Pregnant women should not be put in a lithotomy (flat on the back) position during labor or delivery. They should be encouraged to walk during labor and each woman must freely decide which position to adopt during delivery.

9. The systematic use of episiotomy (incision to enlarge the vaginal opening) is not justified.

10. Birth should not be induced(started artificially) for convenience and the induction of labor should be reserved for specific medical indications. No geographic region should have rates of induced labor over 10%.

11. During delivery, the routine administration of analgesic or anesthetic drugs, that are not specifically required to correct or prevent a complication in delivery, should be avoided.

12. Artificial early rupture of the membranes, as a routine process, is not scientifically justified.

13. The healthy newborn must remain with the mother whenever both their conditions permit it. No process of observation of the healthy newborn justifies a separation from the mother.

14. The immediate beginning of breastfeeding should be promoted, even before the mother leaves the delivery room.

15. Obstetric care services that have critical attitudes towards technology and that have adopted an attitude of respect for the emotional, psychological and social aspects of birth should be identified. Such services should be encouraged and the processes that have led them to their position must be studied so that they can be used as models to foster similar attitudes in other centers and to influence obstetrical views nationwide.

16. Governments should consider developing regulations to permit the use of new birth technology only after adequate evaluation.

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