Breastfeeding
La Leche League
Northern Virginia specific site
Premier Lactation Services
http://www.premierlactationservices.com/
703-822-1690
A wonderful group of lactation consultants who can provide you with a consultation before you have your baby and then come support you after you have your baby.
Northern Virginia Lactation Counselors
Lactation consultants are usually covered by your insurance. Joanna Eddy is great.
Breastfeeding Center of Greater Washington
They offer classes, lactation consulting, and free weekly support meetings. Their shop offers pumps and pumping supplies, breastfeeding covers, lasinoh, infant vitamins with fewer additives/coloring, and other supplies. They also sell wraps like the Ergo, Moby, and Maya.
Find a lactation consultant certified by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. 703/560-7330
Getting and Donating Breastmilk
www.milkshare.com connects potential donors with recipients. As a recipient, you have to do the screening to make sure the donor mom has been tested for communicable disease and has a safe lifestyle for sharing breastmilk. As a donor, you’re making a huge difference in a family’s life. If you end up with extra breastmilk, please consider about making it available on this site.
Similarly, there is a Facebook group called “Human Milk for Human Babies” that connects moms for milk sharing.
LactMed
The LactMed® database contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant.
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/lactmed.htm
Book: Medications and Mother’s Milk, by Thomas W. Hale
Many doctors aren’t aware of whether medications they recommend or prescribe are ok for breastfeeding moms. This is a great reference manual.
Book: Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
Excellent general reference manual to have by your bed as you’re learning to breastfeed.
Has links to evidence-based information about breastfeeding, medications and breastfeeding, illness and breastfeeding, etc.
https://globalhealthmedia.org/portfolio-items/attaching-your-baby-at-the-breast/?portfolioID=5623
Video showing how to get baby latched onto the breast correctly. This is a game changer. Please watch it before you have your baby and again with your newborn as you are learning to breastfeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzptXRlEMV8
Video demonstrating babies rooting instincts that assist with breastfeeding properly
INOVA New Mom Support Group
http://www.inova.org/wellness/childbirth-education
New Mom’s Support Group
Baby Care Classes
Breastfeeding Classes
Lactation Center: This center is great for someone learning to breastfeed, and I’ve found them to be caring and well-informed. Perhaps a bit too prone to recommend a breast pump, so it never hurts to get a second opinion from an IBCLC or LLL Leader!
NOVA Birth Partners