Education & Support Groups

La Leche League of New York

NYU Langone Hospital:

• Parent Education & Support Groups

• Prenatal Breastfeeding Basics-Live Online

• Breastfeeding Cafe-Live Online

NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital:

• Breastfeeding Support Group-Live Online

Breastfeeding videos

Global Health Media has a series of breastfeeding videos that are helpful and free to watch. First Droplets by Dr. Jane Morton, MD has many created many educational videos including: hand expression of colostrum, pumping, breastfeeding a premature infant and more!

• First hours after birth Please note that labor and birth circumstances and interventions can impact breastfeeding initiation. If your baby did not latch during your hospital stay, don’t panic. With support, you and your baby can still establish breastfeeding successfully. Below are additional breastfeeding videos:

• Breastfeeding Positions

• Nipple Pain

• Dr. Jack Newman, MD Breastfeeding Videos

Additional lactation videos

• Lymphatic Drainage technique for relieving breast edema during pregnancy and lactation demonstrated by Dr. Katrina Mitchell, MD, IBCLC

• Reverse Pressure Softening technique to alleviate edema and engorgement and help baby latch.

• Mastitis Spectrum handout (including engorgement treatment)

• Breast Massage and Hand Expression demonstrated by Maya Bolman, RN, IBCLC and Dr. Ann Witt, MD, FABM, IBCLC. Important: If your breasts are engorged, see the handout mentioned above and avoid the kneading technique shown. Instead use the gentle sweeping and tapping techniques. Aggressively massaging by hand or with a vibrating tool swollen, hard breasts can result in damage to the delicate milk ducts.

• Medications and Lactation and Over-The-Counter Medications most medications are compatible with lactation.

Breastfeeding, safe sleep, human milk storage and more:

• La Leche League International: Breastfeeding A-Z answers to many breastfeeding and infant care topics and questions.

• Safe Sleep 7 Safe sleep critieria and surface checklist for bed-sharing

• Bed-sharing and Breastfeeding and Physiologic Infant Care information from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM)

• Physicians Guide to Breastfeeding by Dr. Katrina Mitchell, MD, IBCLC, PMH-C

• Breast Milk Storage : Center for Disease Control CDC & ABM Clinical protocol #8 Human Milk Storage for Full Term Infants

• Free to Feed: Evidence based info on food intolerance, allergies, reflux, elimination diets and more!

• Newborn Weight Tool NEWT helpful for tracking infant weight gain/loss

• Planning to breastfeeding and want to encapsulate your placenta? Please understand the risks associated with placenta consumption and milk production before you do. Check out placentarisks.org for more information.