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• www.breastfeeding.org. (Our own breastfeeding coalition site)
• www.breastfeeding.com. A great site for parents...but it is also a great place for professionals to scan the chat room for where the conversation is going on a particular topic. It gives a consultant a bird's eye view of trends.
• www.nursingmothersupplies.com/drjack. Dr Jack has the best list of research on "risks of artificial formulas."
• www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/3156/Ted. Ted Griener will give you a world view of breastfeeding and has great links.
• www.lalecheleague.org. I have used extensively to help mother's with work related issues and have received help from their legal section.
• One can join "lactnet" (http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lactnet.html) which gives an endless stream of computer conversation between "professionals." Approximately 2000 people belong at one time. Like religion and politics, we are not all ever going to agree on lactation subjects. However, I find some of the web sites referred to are excellent. The site is moderated and you skip the current chatter if it is not your style.

• Produced by a Breastfeeding Task Force at Children's Hospital, the SDCBC puts out a Breastfeeding Resource Guide for professionals and parents. It offers breastfeeding tips and lists of lactation related services and products.
• WELLSTART has a Learning and Education Resource Center (LERC). LERC has 19,000 reprints, 3400 texts, 38 journal subscriptions, 340 video tapes. Phone 619-295-5192 or email: lerc@wellstart.org. Wellstart also has a set of Patient Education Handouts available. Website: www.wellstart.org.

• The Breastfeeding Answer Book. La Leche League. Very user friendly, especially on a topic one know's little about. A world collection of helpful mother-breastfeeding information. Ann Russell, the President of La Leche League in this area, is one of the most research oriented consultants I have met and has helped me a couple of times with more research than I would have believed existed. Phone 858-486-1961.
• Medications and Mother's Milk. Thomas Hale (Hale is at www.neonatal.ttuhsc.edu/lact/ ).
• Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation. Gerald Briggs, et al.

• The Lactation Study Center University of Rochester -- 716-275-0088. Dr. Ruth Lawrence and her staff field questions on medications and breastfeeding. Funded by your Social Security Administration tax dollars.
• Dr. Phil Anderson -- UCSD 1-900-288-8273. Breastfeeding and Drugs Information. A good resource for mothers. $3 for the first minute and $2 each additional minute.
• Breastfeeding National Network -- 1-800-835-5968
• To find a breastfeeding specialist or a place to rent breastpumps, call Hollister/Ameda-Egnell -- 1-800-323-8750 or Medela, Inc. -- 1-800-435-8316
• For other breastfeeding help lines, see the SDCBC's Breastfeeding Resource Guide.

Eve Moeran is a board certified lactation consultant. She can be reached at 619-325-1630. Visit her website at www.breastpumpsandiego.com. This site has links to information on herbals which has saved some parents from using them in a harmful way.

Taken from The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League International

"In explaining how breastfeeding improves the interaction between a mother and her baby, Dr. William Sears, pediatrician and author, writes:

Breastfeeding mother's respond to their babies more intuitively and with less restraint. The baby's signals of hunger or distress trigger a biological response within the mother (a milk let-down) and she feels the urge to pick up the baby and nurse him. This responsiveness rewards both mother and baby with good feelings. If a mother is bottle-feeding, her response

to her baby's hunger or distress cues is quite different. She must initially divert her attention away from the baby to an object, the bottle, and take time to find and prepare it. Research has shown that a baby's memory span in the first six months is from four to ten seconds. The time it takes to produce a non-biological response, such as bottle-feeding, is usually longer than the baby's memory span. The bottle-feeding baby does not receive the same immediate reinforcement of his cues that a breastfeeding baby does. In my practice, I have noticed that breastfeeding mothers tend to show a high degree of sensitivity to their babies, and I believe this is a result of the biological changes that occur in a mother in response to the signals of her baby."