Breastfeeding Resources for Health Professionals

Documents & promotional materials

ABA produces resources that are available free of charge to health services. These resources promote the Breastfeeding Helpline and other ABA services that support breastfeeding mothers and their families

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10960NAT Diploma of Breastfeeding Management

Designed with your needs as a health professional in mind

This course will help you to further develop your skills and knowledge in lactation support.

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Breastfeeding counselling skills for health professionals

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A health professional’s guide to ABA’s updated information on engorgement, localised breast inflammation and mastitis

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Infant and young child feeding - Global and Australian guidance

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Videos

Breastfeeding Basics

Breastfeeding: Getting started (0:06)

Chapter 1: Starting out (0:32)

Chapter 2: Getting closer (1:55)

Chapter 3: What to expect (3:55)

Chapter 4: Feeding cues (5:04)

Chapter 5: Making feeding comfortable for you and baby (6:03)

Baby-led attachment (6:52)

Mother-led attachment (7:39)

Chapter 6: How do I know if baby is getting enough? (10:58)

Hand expressing (12:02)

Reverse pressure softening (12:13)

Chapter 7: Help and encouragement (12:30)

Articles

Physiologic changes in serotonin concentrations in breast milk during lactation

Maeda T, Shioyama A, Tairabune T, Takeda R, Sanbe [...]

By ABA Rose|27 October 2020|Categories: Research Summaries|Tags: lipid, multiparous, primiparous, serotonin, SIDS|

Significance of the tethered maxillary frenulum: A questionnaire-based observational cohort study

Naimer SA, Israel A, Gabbay A.Clin Exp Pediatr. 2020 [...]

By ABA Rose|27 October 2020|Categories: Research Summaries|Tags: frenectomy, frenotomy, frenulum, labial, maxillary, tongue-tie|

Methods and Success Factors of Induced Lactation: A Scoping Review

Cazorla-Ortiz G, Obregón-Guitérrez N, Rozas-Garcia MR, Goberna-Tricas J.J Hum [...]

By ABA Rose|27 October 2020|Categories: Research Summaries|Tags: breast development, galactagogue, induced lactation, inducing lactation|

Mother’s Own Milk Biomarkers Predict Coming to Volume in Pump-dependent Mothers of Preterm Infants

Hoban R, Poeliniz CM, Somerset E, Lai CT, Janes [...]

By ABA Rose|27 October 2020|Categories: Research Summaries|Tags: biomarkers, colostrum, expressing, lactogenesis, secretory activation|

Breastfeeding supplementer

By ABA Rose|27 October 2020|Categories: Factsheets|Tags: adoptive parenting, expressed breastmilk, increasing supply, low milk supply, relactation, SNS, supplementation|

Lifeblood Milk helps more of the tiniest Australians access donated breastmilk

By Laura Klein, PhD, Research Fellow, Milk, Australian Red [...]

By ABA Rose|27 October 2020|Categories: Feature Articles|Tags: breastmilk, breastmilk donation, donor milk, expressed breastmilk, Lifeblood, milk bank, pasteurised milk, premature, Red Cross|