Breastfeeding Publications...

• News from the AMA-Study Suggests Link Between Longer Duration of Breastfeeding and Increased Intelligence

• American Academy of Family Physicians - Breastfeeding Position Paper

• Assembly Bill 1025 Signed for Supporting Breastfeeding Employees  (updated)

• Black Women’s Health: What Every Sister Should Know About Breastfeeding, 2001

• Blue Print for Action on Breastfeeding by Department of Health & Health Services, released in Nov. 2000.

• Breastfeeding Practices in Los Angeles County (1643 KB PDF file) Issue date: 02/01/2001. Report covers the period: 1994-1999. More on LA County Health Statistics.

• Breastfeeding is Priceless: No Substitute for Human Milk, Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, 2003 (PDF)

• Breastfeeding Promotion and Support in WIC

• Breastfeeding Promotion Tips:

  • US Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Specific Types of Programs to Promote Breastfeeding

  • Pasadena Nurse-Out in the News!

  • English & Spanish Breastfeeding Slogans

  • Breastfeeding Advocacy: Taking the Political and Making it Personal

  • NBAC Summary Slides: What It Means To You

  • FREE Video, pamphlets, posters: Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding

  • Guinness World Record

  • New WIC Resources

  • Maloney introduces legislation
     

• Economic Benefits of Breastfeeding: A Review and Analysis (Complete Study - PDF)  
  Economic Benefits of Breastfeeding: Examining the Well Being of Children (PDF)

• Education: New York State Breastfeeding Education Packet for Grades K -12

• Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding by US Department of Agriculture
  In Spanish: Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding by US Department of Agriculture

• Guide to Breastfeeding for African-American Women

• Guidelines for Hospital Discharge of the Breastfeeding Term Newborn and Mother 'Going Home Protocol by Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine

• HMHB Position Statement on Breastfeeding

• HMHB Publications

• Medem Breastfeeding Resources

• IBFAN's new report Checks and Balances in the Global Economy: Using International Tools to Stop Corporate Malpractice - Does it Work?

• INFACT Canada

• Medem Medical Library - Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk

• ACOG Educational Bulletin- Breastfeeding- Maternal and Infant Aspects

• National Breastfeeding Campaign Slide Presentation (PDF)

• National Center of Health Statistics - CDC Growth Charts for U.S.

• New Growth Chart for US Children Released 

• Qualifying the Benefits of Breastfeeding: A Summary of Evidence

• Studies on commercial hospital discharge packs for breastfeeding women

• Selling Out Mothers and Babies - Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes in the USA

• Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Bone Health

• Breastfeeding — Latch-on and Let-down

• Ten Steps to Support Parents' Choice to Breastfeed Their Baby

• Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals Into Human Milk:  American Academy of Pediatrics has updated it's Policy Statement Pediatrics Vol. 108 No 3 September 2001 pp 776-789.

• Medications and Breastfeeding Mothers by American Family Physician.

• U.S. Breastfeeding Committee Publications - Great Info!

• U.S. Breastfeeding Committee: Download complete "Strategic Plan for Breastfeeding in the United States: A National Agenda" (World Breastfeeding Week in Washington, DC.)

• Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding by US Department of Agriculture.