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

Breastfeeding Advocacy and Action

Counseling/ Mother Support

Other

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