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Help women with large breasts find comfortable feeding positions

Find a position that supports both your breast and your baby so your hands are free to hold the end of your breast into the baby’s mouth.

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Kay Hoover reviews the latest, evidence-based research from the journals.
Free to re-copy and may be used for training purposes so long as Kay is cited
and the handout is acknowledged as originating with BreastfeedingMaterials.com

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by Kay Hoover, MS Ed, IBCLC, FILCA

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by Kay Hoover, MS Ed, IBCLC, FILCA

Teaching Paced Bottle Feeding – Video

bottlefeeding videoThe video demonstrates an LC teaching external pacing techniques to the mother of preterm twin who has not gained weight adequately in the previous week. External pacing techniques adapt to any form of alternative feeding; here the mother learns, with return demonstration, a safer method of bottle feeding.

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2 Ways to Apply a Nipple Shield – Video

nipple shield videoNipple shields have been clinically demonstrated to solve several specific types of breastfeeding problem. Mothers often struggle, however, to apply nipple shields securely to the breast. In this video, an IBCLC teaches a mother (with return demonstration) 2 effective ways to apply a nipple shield.
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Radio-Contrast Materials and Breastfeeding Handout

Radio-Contrast Materials BreastfeedingKay Hoover has designed a poster for health care professionals to provide a quick reference for the use of radio-contrast materials and breastfeeding.  Fully referenced, the poster also contains the phone number for the Infant Risk Center at Texas Tech University, School of Medicine, where health care providers can get more information on medications and mothers milk.

English
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Download Handout Back (PDF file)

French
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High Risk Reporting Form


Created by Barbara Wilson-Clay and originally published in Current Research in Clinical Lactation 2002, this High Risk Reporting Form may be freely copied. Use it to help ensure community-based follow-up when a mother and baby are being discharged from the hospital before breastfeeding has been well-established.

High Risk Reporting Form (PDF file)

Example Photo Consent Form

Below is a link to a sample photo consent form. Feel free to reuse the text in this form to create your own consent form when photographing and using photos of your clients.

Download Sample Photo Consent Form (PDF File)

I am consulting with a 24 year old primip patient in her 3rd trimester who has Sjogren’s Syndrome.

Message: Dear Barbara and Kay, I am consulting with a 24 year old primip patient in her 3rd trimester who has Sjogren’s Syndrome. She is wondering if it will affect breastfeeding. She was diagnosed 3 years ago and is being followed by a rheumatologist and a perinatologist. She describes her condition as "mild", with her symptoms just affecting her eyes and saliva. Her only medication for this syndrome prior to becoming pregnant, was Restasis, which she is not using while pregnant. I am not … [Read More...]

Counseling a Working Mother: Workplace Pumping and Embarrassment

Message: Dear Barbara and Kay, I have a client who has returned to work. Her baby was born 5/6/11. She is a PhD at a university. She asked about pumping frequency at work and the effects on supply if she skips a pumping. We discussed the implications of  regular milk removal. Breastfeeding is very important […]

Swallowing dysphagia as a cause of rejection of solid foods

Interesting updates on our recent Ask B & K case regarding the toddler who refused solids.  Ameera, the Egyptian IBCLC who wrote us about this case communicated the surprising news that the mother weaned the baby and the baby immediately began accepting solids.  This is a very counter-intuitive result, but in the interest of intellectual […]