In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week, the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine offers free access to its Breastfeeding Medicine journal for the month of August. The Breastfeeding Medicine description explains:
This academic, peer-reviewed journal created by physicians dedicated to the advancement of breastfeeding worldwide provides a scientific forum on breastfeeding and human lactation. With the growing demand for the best evidence-based research advances, this interdisciplinary journal explores the immediate and long-term outcomes of breastfeeding. The Journal focuses on all medical aspects pertaining to breastfeeding and addresses the wide spectrum of research and clinical applications that impact upon the optimal …read more

If you enjoy posting on any of the top 10 breastfeeding forums or messages boards, you might be interested in this free line of cute breastfeeding “tickers” or banners. Lilypie.com says:
Lilypie Breastfeeding mothers announcement counts how long you have been nursing your baby and updates daily. Create your own free custom graphic which you can add to your website, forum posts, email signature or Windows desktop. It has its own web address so it will continue to keep track of how many years months, weeks and days you have been a nursing mummy.
Lilypie offers several different icons (”Booby Baby” in …read more

Before I concluded yesterday’s interview with Dr. Jane Morton, Director of Breastfeeding Medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, I couldn’t help grilling her on my pet peeve about medical doctors and breastfeeding knowledge: breastfeeding and medications. I have asked many a doctor whether a medication is safe to take while breastfeeding and been told a simple, flat-out “No” because that was the safe answer for the doctor whether it was true or not. Many times the doctor should have answered, “Let me look that up for you” or “I …read more