Breastfeeding Resources for Families
There are many excellent lactation and breastfeeding resources available. Here are some of them:
Prenatal
- Droplet An excellent website for further information about Breastfeeding
Tongue Tie
Handouts
Helpful Websites
- BC Women’s Milk Bank
- Breastfeeding for Indigenous mothers
- Canadian Pediatric Society
- Healthy Families BC – for Babies to 12 months
- Healthy Families BC – parenting resources
- HealthLinkBC
- International Breastfeeding Centre
- Vancouver Coastal Health
- Breastfeeding Support in the Community
Videos
- Art of Successful Breastfeeding – Dr. Verity Livingstone
- Bella Video de Educación Prenatal ABCs of Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Is Everyone’s Business
- Breastfeeding Standing Up
- Breastfeeding Positions
- Cup Feeding and Other Feeding Methods
- Feeding Cues
- First 3 Weeks
- Hand Expression
- How Mothers Can Nurse Themselves Healthy
- How to Choose, Prepare and Store Infant Formula
- Lactation Aid
- Latching Your Baby
- Low Milk Supply
- Mastitis
- Nipple Pain
- Paced Bottle Feeding
- Plugged Ducts
- Signs of a Good Feed
- Skin-to-Skin
- Storing and Using Expressed Breastmilk
- Tongue Tie Release (Frenotomy)
- Thrush
Tongue-tied babies: Procedure to help infants breastfeed may not be necessary, say some experts
Many parents across Canada struggle with breastfeeding, and in some cases, new mothers are being told to utilize a laser procedure to fix tongue issues in their infants — a treatment that experts say can be unnecessary.
CTV News Toronto