Person To Person Support

• An Experienced Friend or Relative (Speaking with another mother who enjoys nursing her children can be the most valuable source of support you can find)

• La Leche League International

  • www.llli.org
  • 24 hour help line,

1-877-4LALECHE

• Monthly Local Meetings (check www.lllusa.org for a meeting near you)

• Lactation Consultant
  • www.ilca.org
• Department of Health/WIC Program
  • www.4woman.gov/Breastfeeding

What's Local?                         Capital District Organizations

• Birthnet

www.birthnewyork.org

• The Family Life Center of Albany

www.familylifecenter-albany.org

Online Support & Resources

• Breastfeeding Advocacy Network www.breastfeedingadvocacynetwork.org
• Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Asso. www.CAPPA.net
• Los Angeles Breastfeeding Task Force www.breastfeedingtaskforla.org
• Militant Breastfeeding Cult
  http://www.militantbreastfeedingcult.com
• Treasure Coast Breastfeeding TaskForce
  http://tcbftaskforce.tripod.com/
• Breastfeeding.com
  http://www.breastfeeding.com
• 101 Reasons to Breastfeed
  http://www.promom.org/101/
• No Artificial Milk
  http://www.noaimhere.com/why.html
• Baby Milk Action
  http://www.babymilkaction.org

WHO Code on Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes

• The "WHO", What and How
• WHO's Compliant and WHO's Not
• Baby-Friendly Hospital Initative

Diaper Bag Exchange

Here at Nourish A Child, we are passionate about helping other mothers successfully breastfeed their babies. We invite everyone to participate in our Diaper Bag Exchange! Please send in your 'free' formula gift bag and any other advertising material that you were given in the hospital, by your pediatrician or received in the mail so that they may shipped back to the formula companies. Or, skip the middleman and ship it back to the formula company yourself! You can contact mefor company mailing addresses if you are planning on sending them back yourself. Be sure to include this letter with your package and let's make our voices heard!

Here's the deal, for every bag that is received (or picture of you sending the bags and advertisements back) you will be sent a Breastfeeding Goodie Bag and a chance to win a FREE pro-breastfeeding diaper bag (one diaper bag awarded each month).

Help us tell the formula companies that the health of our children is more important to us than their profits! They need to abide by the regulations set up by the World Health Organization regarding the sale and advertisement of infant formula.

Want to read more?

www.breastfeedingonline.com/free.shtml

Here is a great article that speaks about how formula ad bags given away to pregnant and new moms effects breastfeeding efforts as well as the impact on our economy.  

www.sfbg.com/nader/68.html

An article by Ralph Nader about consumerism in the maternity ward.