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Jack Newman's Breastfeeding Handouts

Written by Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC (about Dr. Newman)

Handouts updated January 2005

Getting Started

• Breastfeeding—Starting Out Right
• The Importance of Skin to Skin Contact
• How Breast Milk Protects Newborns

• How to Know a Health Professional
  is not Supportive of Breastfeeding
• Risks of Artificial Feeding
• Breastfeeding and Guilt

Adoptive Nursing

• Breastfeeding your Adopted Baby
• Using a Lactation Aid
• Domperidone - 1 (for increasing milk supply)
• Domperidone - 2

The Early Days and Baby Concerns

• When Latching
• When the baby refuses to latch on
• Breastfeeding and Jaundice
• Colic in the Breastfed Baby
• You Should Continue Breastfeeding (2)
  (Illness in the mother or baby)

Weight Gain & Milk Supply Issues

• Is my baby getting enough milk?
• Slow weight gain after the first few months
• Protocol to increase intake of breastmilk by the baby
  ("Not enough milk")
• Breast Compression
• Domperidone - 1 (for increasing milk supply)
• Domperidone - 2
• Using a Lactation Aid
• Finger Feeding

Thrush

• Candida Protocol
• Using Gentian Violet
• Fluconazole

Mother Concerns

• Sore Nipples
• Blocked Ducts and Mastitis
• Treatments for sore nipples and sore breasts
  (APNO, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Treatments for Raynaud's/blanching)
• Cabbage Leaves, Herbs, Lecithin
• You Should Continue Breastfeeding (1)
  (Drugs and Breastfeeding)
• You Should Continue Breastfeeding (2)
  (Illness in the mother or baby)
• Toxins and Infant Feeding

Feeding Baby

• Breastfeeding and Other Foods
• Starting Solid Foods
• What to Feed the Baby when the Mother is
  Working outside the Home

Expressing Milk

• Expressing Milk

Nursing past a year

• Breastfeed a Toddler—Why on Earth?

Breastfeeding Myths

• Some Breastfeeding Myths
• More Breastfeeding Myths
• Still More Breastfeeding Myths
• More and More Breastfeeding Myths

Quotes

• Interesting Quotes compiled by Dr. Newman
  (breastfeeding, child care, media & advertising, environment, medicine, miscellaneous)

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