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Breastfeeding

Breast or Bottle?
Natural Remedies for Breastfeeding Problems
The Advantages of Sustained Breastfeeding
Engorgement
Breastfeeding Basics
Breastfeeding-Best for Baby, Best for Mom
Soothing Sore Nipples
Why Breastfeeding Is Still Best for Your Baby (PDF file)
Blocked Ducts and Mastitis
Breastfeed a Toddler - Why on Earth?
Breastfeeding and Illnesses
Berastfeeding and Jaundice
Berastfeeding and Medications
Breastfeeding and Other Foods
Breastfeeding Your Adopted Baby or Baby Born By Surrogate/Gestational Carrier
Breastfeeding the Premature Baby
Herbal Remedies for Milk Supply
Is My Baby Getting Enough Milk?
Myths of Breastfeeding
Protocol to Increase Breast Milk Intake
When Baby Does Not Yet Latch
When Latching
What To Feed The Baby When The Mother Is Working Outside The Home
The Importance of Human Milk
Fenugreek and Breastfeeding
Colic in the Breastfed Baby
How to Know a Health Professional is not supportive of Breastfeeding?
Nipple Shields
Finger and Cup Feeding
Cabbage Leaves for Treatment and Prevention of Breast Engorgement
Engorgement : The Cabbage Cure
Yeast and Thrush
Reynaud's Phenomenon of the Nipple : A Treatable Cause for Painful Breastfeeding
More Breastfeeding Myths
Still More Breastfeeding Myths
More and More Breastfeeding Myths
The Candida Protocol
Breastfeeding and Guilt
Increasing the Milk Supply : Protocol for Not Enough Milk
Increasing the Milk Supply : "Domperidone"
Increasing the Milk Supply : Miscellaneous Treatments
Lactation Facts
Breast-feeding can save 1.3million lives. WHO : Only 40 percent of women nurse their babies for first six months
What About Pumping?<
A Successfully Breastfed Adopted Baby Via Induced Lactation
Allergies in A The Breastfed Infant
Constipation in Breastfed BabiesDieting While Breastfeeding
Exercise and Breastfeeding
Nipple Confusion
Sore Nipple Management
Breastfeeding and Smoking

Nine Things Your Nipples Whished You Knew About Them

Pregnancy

Stretch Marks and Itchy Skin During Pregnancy
You are Pregnant-now what?
Vaginal Discharge and Pregnancy
Pregnancy Twinges ; What's Normal?

Recommendations

Minimizing Flat Heads
Important Safe Sleeping Tips
SIDS Facts
SIDS Q&A
Colic - The Basics
Colic Baby Definition : The Rule of Threes
The Cause and Treatment of Newborn, Infant and Baby Colic
Links to Some Great Breastfeeding Posts

Heartwarming Stories

Dear Lily
The Milk of Life : Breastfeeding in the Sultanate of Oman
Unweaning Georgia

Dr Jack Newman's Breastfeeding Videos

Dr. Jack Newman graduated from the University of Toronto medical school in 1970, interning at the Vancouver General Hospital. He did his training in pædiatrics in Quebec City and then at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto from 1977-1981 to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 1981 as well as Board Certified by the AAP in 1981. He has worked as a physician in Central America, New Zealand and South Africa. He founded the first hospital based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984. He has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, evaluating the first candidate hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Canada./p>

Dr. Newman was a staff paediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children emergency department from 1983 to 1992, and was, for a period of time, the acting chief of the emergency services. However, once the breastfeeding clinic started functioning, it took more and more of his time and he eventually worked full time helping mothers and babies succeed with breastfeeding. He now works at the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic and Institute based at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto./p>

Dr. Newman has several publications on breastfeeding, and in 2000 published, along with Teresa Pitman, a help guide for professionals and mothers on breastfeeding, called, Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding, as it's known in Canada (revised editions, January 2003 and January 2005), and The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers, as it's known in the US (revised edition, November 2006). In 2006, Dr. Newman, along with Teresa Pitman, published The Latch and Other Keys to Breastfeeding Success (Hale Publishing). In addition, Dr. Jack Newman’s Guide to Breastfeeding and the DVD, Dr. Jack Newman’s Visual Guide to Breastfeeding have now been translated into French as “L’allaitement : comprendre et réussir” (same title for both the book and the DVD). The book is now being translated into Spanish.

Baby 28 hrs old, baby-led-mother guide latching
The baby starts searching for the breast. The mother guides him towards the nipple. The baby opens up fairly wide, but the mother does not bring the baby on as well as she could and the baby has a shallow latch. He should have more of the breast in his mouth.

The baby is mostly nibbling at first though there is an occasional pause in the movement of the chin (see other videos showing good drinking).

The mother starts compressing around 1 minute and 10 seconds, and the baby responds by starting to have pausing-types of sucks that indicate he is getting milk well.

Baby 28hrs old, assisted latching
Shows latching on. Not perfect, but good enough. The mother had no pain. It did take two tries to get the baby to latch on, but that’s okay; there’s no point in trying to force a baby who does not take the breast to stay on the breast. It won’t work. Note the baby has an “asymmetric” latch, with the chin touching the breast, the nose not touching the breast, and he covers more of the areola with his lower lip than the upper.

Compression helps the baby get more milk

RPS by mother with guidance
For mothers who are experiencing engorgement. In this video clip this mother is really not very engorged at all, so the benefits of the technique are seen as drastically.

This technique is best used a minute or so before baby takes the breast. Pressure is applied to the areola around the base of the nipple. It would have been better to arrange the fingers like the petals of a flower so no space comes in between. The objective is to push back the interstitial fluid so it goes back into the breast and softens the nipple-areolar complex of ligaments, thus allowing fro baby to latch on.

2 Day Old
The baby in this video is only 40 hours old. Baby has a pretty good latch. Notice his chin is in the breast, his nose is away from the breast and he covers more of the areola with his lower lip than the upper lip. MORE

Good Drinking
Note the position of the baby at the breast. Chin in the breast, nose not touching, baby’s lower lip covering more of the areola with the lower lip than the upper. An asymmetric latch. MORE

Not Yet Latching, Finger Feed to Latch
Finger feeding is to be used primarily to prepare a baby who does not latch on to take the breast. MORE

4-day old after tongue-tie with compressions
The baby just had a tongue tie release.The mother is doing compressions appropriately. She waits to see if the baby is drinking or not (pause in the chin). If the baby is not drinking, she compresses, holds the compression until the baby stops sucking or stops drinking and then releases. She waits for the baby to start sucking and if the baby starts sucking but does not drink, she repeats the process

Jiggling and Pulling
An older baby whose mother’s supply has decreased.He is jiggling and unsettled at the breast because the flow of milk is slow. Note that he hardly drinks at the breast, though his chin is a little bit difficult to see. This sort of behaviour is often said to be due to an over rapid milk flow but by watching the chin one can see that this behaviour in this case is due to too slow milk flow.

Tongue-tie-release
A simple and quick procedure that can make a significant difference in breastfeeding success. The research supporting tongue-tie release is compelling.

Cup Feeding
A good alternative to the bottle. Particularly useful for the baby who is refusing the breast. Note that the baby laps the milk up with his tongue. One does not pour the milk down his throat.

Squeezing Nipple Demonstrating Difference Between Poor Latch
When the baby latches on to the nipple only, he gets very little milk.When the baby latches on where he should, the milk flows rapidly.

Nibbling
Baby is doing almost no drinking. A baby who breastfeeds only with this type of sucking could stay on the breast for hours and still not get enough milk. Something needs to be done here and if achieving a better latch, using compression doesn’t help, the baby almost certainly needs to be supplemented.

Vasospasm Turns Pink
This mother’s nipples turn white after baby has finished feeding. They turn white for some time and then eventually turn pink again. This change in colour is sometimes accompanied by throbbing and burning in the nipples. This is often due to poor latching and/or a yeast infection.

Really Good Drinking
This baby drinks very well. The pauses are very long. This baby could spend a very short period of time on the breast and still be getting plenty of milk.

Baby led mother guided started upright left breast, latches
This technique for the baby who does not yet take the breast, or who has been actively refusing, helps get baby in the appropriate state ready to take the breast. Baby indicates when he is ready to start searching for the breast, and then, when starting to search mother helps to guide him by providing good support to his back, and she is careful not to hold his head. Baby’s need their necks supported, not their heads.