Links: Breastfeeding and Baby Health Issues

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Breastfeeding the High-Risk Newborn from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Bobby’s Dairy: Nursing a Baby with Chylothorax by Trish Whitehouse, from Leaven, Vol. 39 No. 2, April-May 2003, pp. 27-30.

Breastfeeding an infant with neurological problems from Children’s Hospitals and Clinics Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN

Breastfeeding Success Among Infants With Congenital Heart Disease by Kimberly H. Barbas and Deanne K. Kelleher, from Pediatric Nursing, Volume 30, Number 4.

Breastfeeding Babies with Special Needs. La Leche League International FAQ.

Congenital Disorders: Implications for Breastfeeding by Cynthia Good Mojab, MS. LEAVEN, Vol. 35 No. 6, December 1999-January 2000, pp. 123-28. Discusses how a LLL Leader can provide information and support to mothers of babies with special needs.

Tips and tricks for breastfeeding an infant with a hypotone (weak) mouth region by Silvia Drechsel, a mother who has successfully breastfed her son who has neurological problems.

Sensory Integration:

Sensory Integration and Breastfeeding (p. 11-16 of PDF file) by Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC
Tactile Defensiveness and Other Sensory Modulation Difficulties by Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC, from Leaven, Vol. 37 No. 3, June-July 2001, pp. 51-53.
Sensory Integration by Barb Henry, OTR

LEAVEN articles: Medical conditions in babies from LLLI

NEW BEGINNINGS articles: Infant Illness from LLLI

Page last modified: 03/23/2005

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