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Newsletter January 2012 contains:View or Print

  • Mental health, immune system and breastfeeding
  • Resources of the Month: Complementary & Alternative Medicine in Breastfeeding Therapy, Depression in new mothers, and Non-Pharmacological Treatments for Depression in New Mothers.
  • Free links and downloads
  • News and What's On
  • Resource Specials

Newsletter October 2011 contains:View or Print

  • Too much milk? Signs and actions to take
  • Resources of the Month: Skin to Skin in the first hour after birth: DVD for staff; The Magical Hour, DVD for prospective arents on early contact; Baby's Choice (DVD), Selecting and Using Breastfeeding Tools (book)
  • Free links and downloads
  • News and What's On

Newsletter September 2011 contains: View or Print

  • Are there risks from not breastfeeding?
  • Possible savings in health budget
  • Resources of the Month: Risks of Not Breastfeeding (ILCA), Breastfeeding: Your guide to a happy, healthy baby (Spangler), and Introduction to Biological Nurturing (Colson)
  • What supports, promotes and protects breastfeeding in other countries? (USA)
  • Free links and downloads
  • News and What's On

Newsletter July 2011 contains:View or Print

  • What's in milk?
  • Resources of the Month:Infant Feeding: a resource, from Royal College of Midwives, UK and Code in Cartoons, from IBFAN.
  • Free links and downloads
  • News and What's On

Newsletter June 2011 contains: View or Print

  • Long term expressing or pumping
  • Resource of the Month: Exclusively Pumping
  • Free links and downloads
  • News and What's On

Newsletter March 2011 contains: View or Print version

  • Add some smiles to your work
  • Resources of the Month: Books to bring a smile
  • Free links and downloads
  • News and What's On

Newsletter January 2011 contains: View or Print version

  • 3 ways to keep up-to-date
  • New edition reference books:Breastfeeding: a guide for the medical profession and Meducations and Mother's Milk Mini
  • Free Protocol to download
  • News and What's On

Further information on how to evaluate if a publication is breastfeeding supportive and up-to-date View

Newsletter August 2010 contains: View or Print version

  • Resources for World Breastfeeding Week
  • New reference book: Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple and new DVD: Skin to Skin in the First Hour After Birth
  • Free downloads
  • What's On

Newsletter June 2010 contains: View

  • Maternal Illness and Medications Update
  • Resource of the month: Medications and Mothers' Milk 2010
  • What's On

Newsletter March 2010 contains: View

  • Resource of the Month: Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding
  • Breastfeeding Rates in Ireland

Further information on breastfeeding rates: View

The 2009 ESRI Perinatal Statistics rates show an artificial feeding rate of 47.3%, thus 52.7% of infants were breastfeeding. That is nearly 40,000 infants in Ireland - so a fairly usual activity, not unusual.