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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.
