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A Mother's 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding: Even if your hospital isn't Baby Friendly - (Spanish / German / French)
This Task Force fact sheet gives you information on both the 10 Steps to becoming a Baby Friendly Hospital as well as information for moms on how to breastfeed successfully

Breastfeeding fact sheets by Jack Newman, MD
Comprehensive Breastfeeding Information Sheets for parents and professionals! Topics include beginning to breastfeed, blocked ducts, bottle feeding, breast compressions, colic, engorgements, expressing milk, extended nursing, and almost every other breastfeeding topic imaginable.

UNICEF-The Remarkable First Hour of Life
This great fact sheet by UNICEF will give you all of the reasons why breastfeeding in the first hour of your baby's life can be one of the best decisions that you have ever made.

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2011 Breastfeeding Resource Directory

Do you need help with breastfeeding?  The 2011 Resource Directory is now online!

Use the online version of print the PDF to distribute!

BreastfeedLA BEST Project

With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Community Transformation Grant and in partnership with the L.A. County Department of Public Health, the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles has launched the BEST Project.  We are currently recruiting up to 12 hospitals within L.A. County to receive coaching and technical support to improve maternity care practices that support breastfeeding and to achieve Baby-Friendly designation.

The application will be available May 23, 2012

What's New

TIME: Ask the Right Questions! Read our response to the TIME cover on the Momsrising blog.

Stories of Support Needed

  • The United States Breastfeeding Committee is requesting stories from breastfeeding moms. How have you been helped? Share your story, click here