Breastfeeding Links

Having surgery while breastfeeding? Here are our tips to help you prepare.

Having surgery is scary enough without worries about your breastfeeding relationship. Here are a few tips and ideas we can share to help you prepare.

Breastfeeding while glamorous!  See what you think of these pictures.

"I've hired a doula.  Do I really need a lactation consultant?"

Click here to read Marsha Walker's article

Baby Explains Newborn Behavior

Click here for a letter from your baby explaining newborn behavior

The lactation cookies full of galactogogues --healthy foods that increase breast milk productions -- and they are delicious! The come in two delicious flavors. Come to Best Start to stock up. They freeze well too!

Click Here to go to the Milkin' Cookies Website!

Click here for 14 Ways for Dads to be engaged with their breastfed babies: Does Dad have to give a bottle to bond? 

Virginia Department of Health

Have you seen the wonderful ads on TV from the Virginia Department of Health about Breastfeeding? Click on the website below and see them right on your computer.
www.vahealth.org/wic/bfwic/tvads.asp#tvads

La Leche League

La Leche League helps mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, education, information, and encouragement and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.

La Leche League International Website: http://www.lalecheleague.org

Attend the La Leche League meetings in Lynchburg!

Medela

Best Start carries all the Medela breastpumps, both those for sale and the medical grade pumps for rent. Visit their website at: http://www.medelabreastfeedingus.com/

KellyMom

kellymom.com: Breastfeeding and Parenting

A wonderful breastfeeding and parenting website!

Press release from UNICEF
Poor feeding for children under two leads to nearly one-fifth of child deaths
www.unicef.org/media/media_27814.html

Click on the titles below to read the article!  New Articles are added at the top of the list frequently.

Alcohol and Breastfeeding  --Here are the facts.  How long after having an alcoholic drink should you wait before breastfeeding?  Should you 'pump and dump'? How much alcohol transfers to your milk? 

For working Moms: What does the new Health Care Law say about breaks for Mothers to express their milk.  Which employers must comply and what does the law actually cover?  Read this interesting article by  Kori Martin, JD, LLLL  

Obstacles To Breastfeeding Success Tackled By New Public Health Goals

Rethink Swaddling:  Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple

Giving Thanks: Jenna Elfman Donates Breastmilk to Save Sick Baby, Beats Breastfeeding Booby Traps™

Beware of Holiday Weaning

Breastfeeding Medicine: Nestle, AAP Partnership half-baked

Breastfeeding Tips for Working Mothers

Breast Feeding, Taking Turns And Primitive Conversation

Study: Breastfeeding Moms get Just as much (or Little) Rest as Formula Feeders.

Positive Effects of Breastfeeding on Cholera in Haiti

Breastmilk Kills Cancer Cells!

NEW! Study:  Breastmilk Contains Stem Cells

NEW! UWA discovers ‘ethical’ embryonic-like stem cells in breast milk

Breastfeeding.com  :  Everything for the new mom

American Academy of Pediatrics - Revised Breastfeeding Recommendations:  The AAP has always been a strong advocate of breastfeeding as the optimal form of nutrition for infants. The revised AAP recommendations reflect new research on the importance of breastfeeding.
www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/feb05breastfeeding.htm

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine: www.bfmed.org

Center for Disease Control statement about breastfeeding during Swine Flu:  http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/breastfeeding.htm

United States Breastfeeding Committee:  http://www.uslcaonline.org/enews/0509whocode2.html