Public Health of Canada Breastfeeding Resources 

Find resources you can use to promote breastfeeding and support breastfeeding women.

• 10 Great Reasons to Breastfeed Your Baby
• 10 Valuable Tips for Successful Breastfeeding
• Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care National Guidelines – Chapter 6: Breastfeeding
• Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding: A Practical Workbook for Community-Based Programs
• Poster: Breastfeeding is not just for newborns
  Poster 8.5x11 (PDF document 1,430 KB)
• Infant nutrition​
• Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants - Recommendations from Six to 24 Months [2014-04-25]
• Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants - Recommendations from Birth to Six Months

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 AHS 20-Hour Breastfeeding course

Alberta’s go-to online 20-hour breastfeeding course for healthcare professionals. This free CME-accredited course provides flexible, accredited learning to enhance your breastfeeding knowledge and support skills. The self-paced online modules have been developed for all health care providers working with expectant and breastfeeding families across the continuum of care.
​As part of the first three modules in the Foundations for Working with Families series, the following practice support resources are available to download and print.
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Printable Resources

• The LEARN Model (8.5x11)
• The LEARN Model (pocket-size)
• Supporting Informed Feeding Decisions: Information on Infant Feeding Options for Healthcare Professionals
• 8 Principles of Informed Feeding Decisions
• Deciding How to Feed Your Baby
• Socio-Ecological Model in the Breastfeeding Context
• A Partner’s Guide to Breastfeeding Support (Healthy Parents, Healthy Children)
• Practical Considerations for Working with Indigenous Mothers
• Supporting a Transgender Parent with Chestfeeding: A Case Study on Cultural Safety

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Alberta Breastfeeding Committee

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The Alberta Breastfeeding Committee (ABC) is a team of health care providers, independent breastfeeding experts, and consumers who are dedicated to protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in Alberta.  ABC recognizes your dedication to providing specialized lactation skill and knowledge to families around our province.

ABC Posters
Breastfeeding Friendly Communities

• Breastfeeding in Public
• “Thanks for Breastfeeding in Public” cards
• Breastfeeding Friendly Spaces
• Breastfeeding Is Not Just For Newborns
• Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding – A Practical Workbook for Community-Based programs
• Developing and Sustaining Breastfeeding Peer-Support Programs
• Return to Work or School
  
  

“The Importance of Breastfeeding” series
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Recognition of Alberta facilities that achieve BFI
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Education & Events:

• Advertising learning opportunities
• Conferences
• Calendar of Events
• Facebook
• Twitter
• ABC listserv
• Best Practice Series

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La Leche League Canada

To encourage, promote and provide peer-based breastfeeding, chestfeeding and human milk feeding support and educational opportunities as an important contribution to the health of children, families and society.

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• About Human Milk: Nutrition, Environmental Issues and Health
• ​Baby Health Issues
• ​Being a Breastfeeding Mother, Parent and Family
• ​Beyond the Early Months: Solids, Nursing Older Ones, Weaning and More
• Breast and Nipple Pain
• ​Getting Ready During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding in the Early Days
• Expressing and Storing Milk
• ​Information in Other Languages
• ​Learning About Your Baby
• ​Lifestyle Questions: Eating, Drinking, and More
• ​Milk Supply Issues: Too Much and Not Enough
• ​Mother and Parent Health Issues
• ​Multiples: Twins and Triplets
• ​Out and About: In the Community, Traveling and Holidays
• ​Pregnancy, Fertility and Sex
• ​Sleep and Nighttime Parenting
• ​Working Outside the Home

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International Breast Feeding Clinic (Dr. Newman)

At the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic we provide reliable and well-researched information based on 34 years of Dr. Jack Newman’s leadership, experience and our evidence-based practice.  We offer real, practical breastfeeding help.
 The International Breastfeeding Centre is here to support, encourage and provide help to mothers who would otherwise be disappointed and quit breastfeeding.  Our clinical support helps mothers overcome obstacles so they can breastfeed even when struggling with difficulties.
To help with breastfeeding, Dr. Jack Newman personally provides a free email answering service to women and health professionals, maintains this website as a source of reliable breastfeeding information, creates videos for women to learn about breastfeeding.

MULTI-LANGUAGE INFORMATION SHEETS
BREASTFEEDING VIDEOS
E-LEARNING CENTRE
BREASTFEEDING BASICS FOR THE PRENATAL FAMILY
MULTI-LANGUAGE VIDEOS

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