Resources - Breastfeeding

• Local Lactation Consultant - Terry Bretscher, RN, IBCLC, Pomona Valley Hospital, 1798 N. Garey Avenue, Pomona, CA 91767, (909) 643-6455, 8:30AM - 12:30PM
• International Lactation Consultant Association - Find a lactation consultant near you.
• La Leche League - The La Leche League International mission is: To help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother. To contact our local West Covina chapter leaders, click here.
• ¨ The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers by Jack Newman, MD - Amazon.com Review: "There's a huge difference between 'natural' and 'easy'--just ask a woman who chose natural childbirth! Breastfeeding is certainly the most natural option for feeding your little one, and repeated studies have shown its nutritive value. But that doesn't make it easy, and not all medical practitioners are trained to answer questions about the process. In The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers, authors Jack Newman and Teresa Pitman have assembled a mass of real-life stories from their clinical experience, and with their straightforward, helpful advice, you'll be breastfeeding successfully in no time."
• ¨ How Weaning Happens by Diane Bengson - Bengson covers social and cultural differences among breastfeeding families, pressures to wean, natural weaning and various other reasons to wean. She also writes about the physical and emotional changes of mother and child in a nursing relationship.
• www.kellymom.com - Provides evidence-based information on breastfeeding, sleep and parenting.
• www.safefetus.com - A complete database of worldwide medications (generic & trade) providing information on the drugs' indications, fetal risk, breastfeeding risk, during pregnancy, according to the FDA.
  Breastfeeding in Public - Cal. Civil Code § 43.3 (1997) allows a mother to breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, except the private home or residence of another, where the mother and the child are otherwise authorized to be present. (AB 157)
• Breastfeeding and Jury Duty - Cal. Civil Code § 210.5 (2000) allows the mother of a breastfed child to postpone jury duty for one year and specifically eliminates the need for the mother to appear in court to request the postponement. The law also provides that the one-year period may be extended upon written request of the mother. [Chap. 266 (AB 1814)].
  50 State Summary of Breastfeeding Laws
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Extended_Nursing/ - This list is for all breastfeeding moms who are nursing or planning to nurse their babies beyond the first year.
• http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/nursing_while_ttc_or_pregnant/ - This is a list for breastfeeding mothers who are trying to conceive or thinking about it.