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Adoptive Breastfeeding Resource Website (www.fourfriends.com): Provides information and support for women who wish to breastfeed an adopted child.
Breastfeeding After Reduction (www.bfar.org): Provides information and support for women who are breastfeeding after breast reduction surgery.
Granite Scientific Press (www.granitescientific.com): The imprint and website of health psychologist Kathy Kendall-Tackett. Offers information on a wide variety of topics including breastfeeding.
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed): Provides referenced, peer-reviewed information about the use of medications by breastfeeding mothers, including:
maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider. (See also Medications and Mothers' Milk: A Manual of Lactational Pharmacology by Tom Hale, PhD in the books listed below.)
La Leche League International (www.lalecheleague.org): Provides breastfeeding information and support. Its website hosts the largest collection of breastfeeding information in the world. For free telephone support and to locate a free breastfeeding support group in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, please call (503) 282-9377.
Kellymom.com (www.kellymom.com): Provides breastfeeding information and support, including information on postpartum depression (www.kellymom.com/ppd/index.html).
Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women's Mental Health
(www.womensmentalhealth.org): Offers information on a variety of women's mental health issues, including the use of medications during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Motherisk (www.motherisk.org): Offers evidence-based information on the risk or safety of drugs, chemicals and disease during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
MOBI (Mothers Overcoming Breastfeeding issues) Motherhood International
(www.mobimotherhood.org): Provides information and support for mothers who are experiencing difficulty with breastfeeding and grieving breastfeeding losses.
Nursing Mothers Counsel (www.nursingmotherscounsel.org): Provides free
breastfeeding information and support in the Portland metropolitan area. For local support, please call (503) 282-3338.
World Health Organization Growth Charts (www.who.int/childgrowth/en/New ): growth charts (April 2006) based on breastfed children. The growth of breastfed babies should be considered in the context of these charts, not charts that are based on formula fed babies.