Breastfeeding Resources

Vital Breastfeeding Resources

The National Women's Law Center's Resource On Breastfeeding Support and Insurance Claims and Denials The National Women’s Law Center has authored an in-depth guide that helps families with drafting an insurance company denial appeal letter. This toolkit is designed for women, advocates, community-based organizations and health care providers to provide information on the coverage of breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling in the health care law and offer tools to women who encounter problems with this coverage.

Global Health Media Videos Breastfeeding Series This video, entitled, "Attaching Your Baby at the Breast" will help any breastfeeding mom. Informative and clearly shows effective breastfeeding in action. Well-worth the time to view and review. "Good attachment will help a baby get more milk and make breastfeeding more comfortable. This video shows why good attachment is so important to breastfeeding success and what a mother can do to deeply attach her baby to her breast."

Health & Human Services Women's Health and Breastfeeding Info The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office on Women's Health web portal Breastfeeding page. All sorts of topics are covered in articles, including breastfeeding holds, health benefits for the baby, getting a good latch, pumping and storing breastmilk, going back to work, and more.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Breastfeeding Resources

Best Fed Beginnings — This program helped hospitals improve maternity care and become Baby-Friendly designated hospitals. Baby-Friendly hospitals promote breastfeeding, among other mother/baby bonding efforts.

Breastfeeding Report Card — This report shows how breastfeeding is protected, promoted, and supported in each state and allows comparisons across states, making it an important tool for increasing breastfeeding nationwide.

The CDC Guide to Strategies to Support Breastfeeding Mothers and Babies (PDF, 2.5 MB) — This guide offers breastfeeding intervention strategies for states and local communities, including worksite programs, breastfeeding information, and peer support programs.

Other U.S. Government Breastfeeding Resources

Healthy People 2020: Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Objectives — Ten-year national objectives to improve the health of Americans. The breastfeeding objectives include increasing the number of infants who are breastfed and increasing the length of time that mothers breastfeed. Another goal is increasing worksite lactation support programs.

HRSA Women's Preventive Services Guidelines — Information on clinical recommendations for preventive services that address women’s health needs, including breastfeeding services and supplies.

The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding (PDF, 925 KB) — This call to action describes specific steps communities, organizations, and people can take to participate in a society-wide approach to support mothers and babies who are breastfeeding.

Who Gets WIC and How to Apply — Information about the Women, Infants and Children Program.

LactMed® database — Information from the National Library of Medicine on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.

General Information about Breastfeeding on Other Websites

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Pediatrics

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Human Milk Banking Association of North America

International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA)

La Leche League International LLLI provides support and education to breastfeeding mothers and is a valuable resource for breastfeeding information.

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

Wellstart International

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action

World Breastfeeding Week

Breastfeeding Research

Google Scholar Breastfeeding Search Google Scholar is a leading online research tool to locate and utilize web-based research studies and data pertaining to the toipic of Breastfeeding.

Center for Breastfeeding Healthy Children Project Healthy Children Project, a non-profit research and educational institution dedicated to improving child health outcomes.

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM): ABM is an organization comprised of medical doctors from around the world. ABM provides education, resources, and a qualified network of experts to advance medical knowledge and practice in breastfeeding and lactation.

Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI): CGBI emphasizes the role of public health in supporting breastfeeding and provides resources and training to communities and institutions to promote optimal infant and child nutrition.

Human Milk Institute (HMI): HMI focuses on the science of human milk and its impact on health. They have a dedicated Milk Analytics Core for research and development related to human milk.

University of Rochester Human Milk and Lactation Research Consortium: This consortium brings together researchers and providers from various departments to conduct research on human milk and lactation.

National Institutes of Health (NIH): The NIH has several institutes and centers involved in breastfeeding research.

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which has a broad research portfolio on breastfeeding and human milk, is part of the NIH.

Global Human Milk Research Consortium (GHMRC): This consortium consists of research centers focused on different aspects of human milk and lactation, collaborating to advance global understanding.

InfantRisk Center: The InfantRisk Center conducts research on the transfer of medications into breast milk and provides resources for healthcare professionals and breastfeeding parents.

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