Resources for Health Care Providers

TEXTBOOKS

Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession
   By Ruth Lawrence, Robert Lawrence

Textbook of Human Lactation
   By Thomas Hale, Peter Hartmann

Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence
   By Marsha Walker

Breastfeeding and Human lactation
   By Jan Riordan

MEDICATIONS AND BREASTFEEDING

Medications and mother’s milk
   By Thomas Hale

Drugs in pregnancy and lactation
   By Gerald Briggs, Roger Freeman, Sumner Yaffe

LactMed: Drugs and lactation database
   The most current resource on medications and breastfeeding
   Website: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

PHYSICIAN ORGANIZATIONS

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
   Publishes clinical protocols International
   Website: www.bfmed.org