All reading material is included in the courses or links to helpful websites are provided. We encourage you to purchase a good quality lactation text and perhaps consider adding a new book to your collection each year.

The Health e-Learning facilitators have combined the votes of their favourite lactation books as listed below.

Clinical

• ILCA, LEAARC - Core Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Lactation Care  2nd edition 2022
• Lawrence R - Breastfeeding: a Guide for the Medical Profession 9th edition 2021
• Wambach K, Spencer B - Breastfeeding and Human Lactation 6th edition 2019
• Wilson-Clay B, Hoover K - The Breastfeeding Atlas  7th edition 2022

Counseling

• Lauwers J, Swisher A - Counseling the Nursing Mother 7th edition 2020

Advanced

• Campbell S - Lactation: A Foundational Strategy for Health Promotion, 2022
• Hale TW, - Hale's Medications and Mothers' Milk 2023: A Manual of Lactational Pharmacology
• Hanson L - Immunology of Human Milk 2004
• Marasco L, West D - Making More Milk:  The Breastfeeding Guide to Increasing Your Milk, 2020
• Watson-Genna C - Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants 4th edition 2023

Online Resources

• Cochrane Reviews
• PubMed tutorial

Breastfeeding Advocacy and Action

• BAA (Breastfeeding Advocacy Australia)
• IBFAN (International Baby Food Action Network)
• SafelyFed Canada
• WABA (World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action)
• UNICEF UK

Counseling/ Mother Support

• La Leche League International

Other

• Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
• Breastfeeding after Breast and Nipple Surgery
• Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed®)
• Evidence-based psychology and psychoneuroimmunology
• Global Health Media
• InfantRisk Web forums
• Kangaroo Mother Care, Dr Nils Bergman
• Lactnet archives
• Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition
• Medline Plus
• Medscape - Subscribe to their online notifications
• Relactation and induced lactation
• Stanford Newborn Nursery Photo Gallery

Journals

• International Breastfeeding Journal (free access journal)
• Journal of Human Lactation
• Breastfeeding Review
• Clinical Lactation
• Breastfeeding Medicine
• Journal of Nutrition
• British Medical Journal
• Pediatrics
• Google alerts - choose terms such as 'breast milk', 'breastfeeding', lactation, etc and Google will send you alerts whenever new items match your criteria

Français

• http://www.allaitement.ca/
• http://amis-des-bebes.fr/
• http://breastfeedingcanada.ca/Default_fr.aspx
• http://www.lllfrance.org/
• https://mouvementallaitement.org/ 
• http://www.santeallaitementmaternel.com/