Breastfeeding Resources for Health Care Professionals

• Physician’s Guide to Breastfeeding PDF – excellent resource!
• Breastfeeding E-Learning Modules Toronto Public Health has developed e-learning modules based on the protocols. The modules are intended to support health care professionals and organizations in accessing education for the provision of evidence-based breastfeeding services and the creation of a Baby-Friendly environment.
• Physician Guide to Breastfeeding: Evidence-based breastfeeding guidance for families and the communities that support them
• Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocols: A worldwide organization of physicians dedicated to the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding and human lactation. A section of practical, evidence based protocols for breastfeeding support
• Motherrisk: For information on medication use in pregnancy and breastfeeding
• Lactmed: detailed, evidence based information on the use of medication in breastfeeding
• Free UBC CPD Online Courses:
  • Latching On: How Family Physicians Can Support Breastfeeding Patients
  • But I Don’t Do Maternity Care! – Specialist Physician Management of the Breastfeeding Patient
• Canadian Pediatric Society Statement on Infant Nutrition & Breastfeeding
• Canadian Pediatric Society Baby Friendly Initiative
• Informal Milk Sharing
• Lactational Abscess Office Drainage Video
• Videos from Vancouver Breastfeeding Centre
• Breastfeeding Support in the Community – Partnerships between hospitals and community services to seamlessly transition care during pregnancy, labour, birth, and the postpartum period is essential given the short length of hospital stays and the importance of establishing breastfeeding and lactation in the first 1 to 2 weeks following birth.

Articles by Dr. Verity Livingstone

• Breastfeeding and Adoption
• Breastfeeding and sore nipples
• Breast-feeding and Working Mother
• Breastfeeding Kinetics
• Diagnostic Approach to Breastfeeding Problems
• Family Physician’s Role in Preventing Early Termination #e35
• In Hospital Lactation Assessment
• Infant Insufficient Milk Syndrome AWMPH
• Liberty Bottle or Liability BottleAFFF
• Management of Common LactationBFP.doc
• Neonatal insufficient breast milk syndrome
• Postpartum Breastfeeding Assessments
• Prenatal Lactation Assessment
• Problem-Solving Formula for Failure to Thrive in Breast-#634
• Protecting Breast-feeding
• Serum lactogens possessed normal bioactivity in patientsWLI
• Staphylococcus aureus and sore nipples
• The maternal hyperlactation syndrome
• Too much of a good thing
• Treatment of Staphyloccocus Aureus Infected Sore Nipples

Vancouver Breastfeeding Centre will close permanently at the end of March 2022. Please read the announcement.