- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.ahrq.gov
Evidence Report 153 Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries is a compilation of the systematic reviews and meta-analyses of breastfeeding research.
- Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) www.bfhi.org
The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative is an international project to give every baby the best start in life by creating a health care environment where breastfeeding is the norm and practices known to promote the health and well-being of all babies and their mothers are followed. - Baby Gooroo http://www.babygooroo.com/
Baby gooroo® is an online resource where parents and health professionals can access timely information affecting the health of babies and young children. Updated daily, baby gooroo provides content that reflects the ever-changing needs and interests of today’s parents. By separating fact from misinformation, our team of experts make it easier for you to be a mom or a dad.
- Breastfeeding Basics www.breastfeedingbasics.org
Breastfeeding Basics is an academic, non-commercial, short course on the fundamentals of breastfeeding. It is geared primarily for the medical practitioner, although anyone is welcome to browse or take the course. - Breastfeeding & Feminism http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/breastfeeding-feminism/mediafile_view
A personal and political look at breastfeeding and working motherhood. - CDC (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
Breastfeeding Report Card – United States, 2008:
http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/2008%20Breastfeeding%20Report%20Card.pdf
- Cochrane Library www.thecochranelibrary.com
Cochrane reviews combine results of the world’s best medical research studies to create the gold standard in evidence-based health care. - DrugWatch www.drugwatch.com
“DrugWatch.com is a comprehensive Web site database featuring extensive information about thousands of different medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide. DrugWatch.com includes up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications and includes details about associated side effects to aid in the protection of patients and consumers.” - International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) www.iblce.org
IBLCE administers the certification examination that is the internationally recognized measure of competence in lactation consulting and grants the designation IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant).
- International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) www.ilca.org
ILCA is the professional organization for IBCLCs. ILCA’s mission is to advance the lactation consultant profession through leadership, advocacy, professional development and research.
- LactMed www.toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has released a new database on drugs and breastfeeding. It is part of TOXNET (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov) and can be searched together with all of the TOXNET database. - MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health http://www.womensmentalhealth.org/
This website provides a range of current information including discussion of new research findings in women’s mental health and how such investigations inform day-to-day clinical practice.
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners http://www.napnap.org/
NAPNAP is the professional home for PNPs and other advanced practice nurses who care for children. NAPNAP is the only national organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care for infants, children and adolescents and to advancing the PNP’s role in providing that care. - North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition (NCBC) www.ncbfc.org
The statewide alliance of individuals and organizations working to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.
- PubMed www.nlm.nih.gov
The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers its MEDLINE (PubMed) database of more than 8.8 million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals free of charge on the World Wide Web.
- US Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) www.usbreastfeeding.org
USBC is a coalition of more than 40 organizations that support its mission to improve the Nation’s health by working collaboratively to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. - Wake AHEC www.wakeahec.org
Wake AHEC provides services to health and human service providers in a nine-county region encompassing Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Lee, Person, Vance, Wake and Warren counties. Although these counties are the primary service region, health care professionals from any geographic area are welcome to participate in all educational programs, activities and services. - World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) www.waba.org
WABA is a global network of organizations and individuals who believe breastfeeding is the right of all children and mothers and who dedicate themselves to protect, promote and support this right. WABA acts on the Innocenti Declaration and works in liaison with UNICEF.
- World Health Organization (WHO) www.who.org
The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health whose objective is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health (defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity).
- ZipMilk http://zipmilkorg
ZipMilk NC is a community service of the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition, providing listings for breastfeeding resources based on ZIP code. Names and contact information are provided by the individuals and organizations listed in ZipMilk, and these individuals and organizations are solely responsible for the content of their listings. These resources are not a substitute for medical advice.
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