Eating Healthy During Pregnancy
Making smart food choices can help you have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Here are some ideas to help you eat healthy during pregnancy.
Eating Healthy During Lactation
Making smart food choices can help you maintain your health during lactation and support breast milk production. Here are some ideas to help you eat healthy during the postpartum period.
Maximizing Milk Production with Hands-On Pumping
When an infant is unable to breastfeed effectively, and his mother needs to stimulate the breasts and express milk with a breast pump, building and maintaining an adequate supply can be a challenge. This video developed by Dr. Jane Morton, demonstrates some ways that pumping mothers can increase production without medication.
Information About and Resources to Help Parents Successfully Breastfeed
The US Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health provides many resources on breastfeeding including fact sheets, infographics, and videos.
Information About Environmental and Medication Exposures During Pregnancy and Lactation
Mother To Baby is a trusted source of evidence-based information on medications and other exposures during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Their fact sheets summarize available scientific information to determine whether or not women and their developing babies are at risk because of an exposure in their environment.
Get Answers About Breastfeeding and Parenting
Kellymom.com is a user-friendly website that provides evidence-based information on breastfeeding and parenting.
Looking for FREE Lactation Group Support and Education?
La Leche League USA helps parents, families, and communities to breastfeed, chestfeed, and human milk feed their babies through parent-to-parent support. LLL USA encourages, informs, educates, supports, and promotes the use of human milk and the intimate relationship and development that comes from nursing a child for as long as mutually desired.
