Resources for Professionals

Links to Helpful Breastfeeding Resources

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine

• Position on Breastfeeding and Protocols

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

• Position on Breastfeeding

American Academy of Family Physicians

• Policy on Breastfeeding

American Academy of Pediatrics

• Policy Statement on Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk
• Recommendations on the Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals Into Human Milk
• How to Safely Prepare Formula with Water

American College of Nurse-Midwives

• Position Statement on Breastfeeding

American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists

• Statement on Breastfeeding

Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses

• Position Statement on Breastfeeding

Baby-Friendly USA

• Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding
• Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding (Spanish)

National Institute of Health

• Cost comparison of baby friendly and non-baby friendly hospitals in the United States
• Baby-friendly hospital initiative improves breastfeeding initiation rates in a US hospital setting
• Effect of maternity-care practices on breastfeeding

UNICEF

• Child Health Statistics
• Innocenti Declaration

US Department of Health and Human Services

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Breastfeeding website
• Office on Women's Health Breastfeeding Resources
• US Surgeon General's Call to Action
• Action to Support Breastfeeding
• Infant Formula Preparation and Storage
• Cronobacter Infection in Infants

US Food and Drug Administration

• FDA Takes Final Step on Infant Formula Protections
• Once Baby Arrives from Food Safety for Moms to Be

World Health Organization

• International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes
• Infant and Young Child Feeding and Nutrition
• 2018 BFHI Implementation Guidance
• Revised Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (2018)
• Infant and Young Child Feeding: Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals