Recommended Web Sites

Feeding Baby With Breast Milk or Formula - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has created this fact sheet.

Breast-Feeding Positions - The Mayo Clinic offers this slide show on the best ways to hold your baby while feeding her.

Breastfeeding and Returning To Work and Breast Milk: How To Pump and Store It and Breastfeeding: Tips to Help You Off To A Good Start - FamilyDoctor.org offers these tips.

101 Reasons to Breastfeed Your Child - ProMoM provides these reasons, with links to the organizations and research citations to the journal articles to support breastfeeding.

Breast Pumps - The Food and Drug Administration offers this information on breast pumps.

Breastfeeding - The American Academy of Pediatrics has published these factsheets about breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding: Best For Baby, Best For Mom - WomensHealth.gov offers this advice.

Breastfeeding.com - This site offers plenty of advice for nursing mothers on breastfeeding and other childcare issues.

Breastfeeding Basics - This is another site from a lactation consultant, full of great information about all aspects of breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding FAQ - These frequently asked questions are about what the mother should and shouldn't eat and drink while breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding Information - KidsHealth for parents has created this food and nutrition section, scroll down for a dozen great fact sheets.

Breastfeeding Topics from the CDC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides links to several documents about breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk - The American Academy of Pediatrics offers this policy statement in support of breastfeeding.

An Easy Guide to Breastfeeding - The National Womens Health Information Center has created this guide.

How Do Diet, Medications and Alcohol Affect Breastfeeding? - The American College of Nurse-Midwives has created this handout.

LaLeche League - The La Leche League International mission is: To help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.

Medications and the Breast-Feeding Mother - The medical journal American Family Physician has published this interesting article.

MEDLINEPlus: Breast Feeding - The National Library of Medicine is the creator of this page full of links to quality Internet resources, including some in Spanish.

MyPyramid for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding - The US Department of Agriculture offers this information on good nutrition during these times.

Vegan Diet During Pregnancy and Lactation - The Vegetarian Resource group provides this information for mothers who follow a vegan diet.

Warning For Nursing Mothers Taking Codeine - Learn more about the possible danger of taking codeine while breastfeeding.

Weaning Your Child - KidsHealth discusses when and how to transition your child from breast milk to regular food and drink.