Handouts and links

Find local support

• Zip Milk
  • IBCLCs
  • Support groups
• La Leche League USA group finder
• WIC Breastfeeding
  • Local agencies
• Chocolate Milk Cafe
• Sistahs Who Breastfeed
• Breastfeeding USA

General

• • WIC
    • Nutrition and breastfeeding
    • Breastfeeding makes a difference
    • Breastfeeding promotion and support
    • Breastfeeding and pumping classes in English, Spanish, Creole, and Arabic
    • Breastfeeding myths
  • CDC:
    • Fast facts about breastfeeding
    • Your Guide to Breastfeeding booklet
  • US Office on Women’s Health (OWH):
    • It’s Only Natural booklet
    • Breastfeeding myths in the African-American community 
    • Fitting breastfeeding into your life
    • Benefits of breastfeeding, the history of promotion, and the protection of breastfeeding rights
  • La Leche League
    •  La Leche League International (LLLI)
    • Breastfeeding A to Z
    • La Leche League USA
  • Baby Friendly USA
    • NJ hospital listings
  • Postpartum mental health support
    • PSI (Postpartum Support International)
      • Free support groups
  • Family Connects NJ 
  • The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding

Pumping

• Policy brief: Supporting Breastfeeding in the Workplace
  https://www.asphn.org/resource_files/657/657_resource_file2.pdf
• Employer Lactation Toolkit – For Employers
  http://www.familiesandwork.org/employer-lactation-toolkit-for-employers/
• Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding
  http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/calls/breastfeeding/calltoactiontosupportbreastfeeding.pdf
• National Business Group on Health: Toolkit for employers based on The Business Case for Breastfeeding.
  http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/pub/f2ffe4f0-2354-d714-5136-79a21e9327ed
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: The Business Case for Breastfeeding
  https://www.womenshealth.gov/breastfeeding/breastfeeding-home-work-and-public/breastfeeding-and-going-back-work/business-case

Career-specific

• • • Law enforcement officers – presentation given to NJ Women in Law Enforcement, May 2025 – download it here: Lactation Rights in the Workplace for Law Enforcement Officers
    • Teachers
      • Pumping in SOMSD (South Orange Maplewood School District) by Allyson Murphy, IBCLC – but it can apply to any district

Milk storage

• Pumping and storing milk (CDC)
• Pumping and storing milk (OWH)

Medications

• LactMed
• Over the counter medications (LLLI)
• e-Lactancia
• Infant Risk Center
  • Call the Infant Risk Center during regular business hours with any questions about medications and breastfeeding, 1-806-352-2519, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 4 PM Eastern
• MotherToBaby
  • Fact sheets
• Birth control (LLLI)

Public breastfeeding

• The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) has authorized the distribution of lactation signage to certain public facilities in pursuant with [P.L.2019, c.242]. Click Here for a printable version

Transgender families

• Transgender parents and chest/breastfeeding

Handouts

• When to call for help
• Breastmilk has more of what babies need
• Making milk is easy
• Common medications while breastfeeding – English, Spanish
• Covid-19 vaccinations
• Breastfeeding fact sheet

• ENGLISH, click HERE
• ARABIC, click HERE *
• FRENCH, click HERE *
• HINDI, click HERE *
• SPANISH, click HERE
• PORTUGUESE, click HERE
• RUSSIAN, click HERE
• VIETNAMESE, click HERE
• MANDARIN CHINESE, click HERE
• HAITIAN CREOLE, click HERE

* Translations services supported by a grant from the New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition (NJBC)