Alliance Breastfeeding Center Handouts

Below are some of the best handouts I can get permission to offer. There are many more handouts you can find yourself on the BreastfeedingOnline.com website -- look at the links page.

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Diane Wiessinger's Common Sense Breastfeeding Handouts

The Early Days

Before you breastfeed
Preparing for breastfeeding
First week engorgement
Ordinary newborn jaundice

How Breastfeeding Works

Thoughts on positioning
Latch-on pictures with description
A three course meal and a dance
"He can't be hungry. He just ate!"
Scheduling feeds
How babies eat

The Breastfeeding Life

The normal course of breastfeeding
What your baby expects in life
Low-tech breastfeeding
Nursing, in a nutshell
Better than Breast Feeding
Respecting your baby
Ah, nights...
Safe Sleeping
Wearing your baby
Of Puppies and Babies
What About Dad?

Mother Stories, Trouble Times

Why am I doing this??
Tough Love
- (tight mouth, slow gain, sore nipples)
The Labor of Breastfeeding
- (a non-latching baby)
"Old Iron Jaws"
- (a clenching baby)
"My baby just doesn't get it"
Dealing With Blebs
- (plugged nipple pore)
Gaining, Gulping, & Grimacing?
- (oversupply?)
Nipple Pain - Sources & Solutions
Medications and Breastfeeding
Staying in touch

Misc. Handouts

If Baby Must Take A Bottle

Working and Breastfeeding

Reverse Pressure Softening

Nipple Shield

Weaning From a Nipple Shield

Hand Expression -see the Baby Led Feeding Website

About Pumps

Video Clips:

For the best video clip on a good latch, go to the Ameda Website and scroll down to look for the latch video. Click [Here]

Other good video clips on latching and compression and more can be found at the Breastfeeding Online website. Click [Here] You'll need to scroll down a ways and you can find many video clips that should be helpful!