Familiarize yourself with the many benefits of breastfeeding, including those for the baby, mother, family, the environment and society.
Resources
- Breastfeeding basics
Steps to getting started and guidelines for the first 48 hours. - Breastfeeding - HealthlinkBC
Information on the benefits of breastfeeding your baby and how to know your baby is getting enough. - Videos on breastfeeding - Healthy Families BC
Videos on breastfeeding including skin to skin, latch and positioning, hunger cues, hand expression, pumping, and other topics. - Breastfeeding information for parents
An interactive online Ontario resource on breastfeeding for parents. - Amazing milk - La Leche League Canada
Information on various positive impacts of breastfeeding. - Ten great reasons to breastfeed your baby - Public Health Agency of Canada
Learn ten great reasons to breastfeed your baby. - Breastfeeding and the environment - La Leche League Great Britain
Breastfeeding is one of the best ways to protect both our planet’s ecosystems and our health. - Nutrition for healthy term infants: recommendations from birth to six months - Health Canada
Joint statement on infant feeding by Health Canada, Canadian Pediatric Society, Dieticians of Canada and Breastfeeding Committee for Canada. - Infant feeding recommendation - World Health Organization
Review their recommendation on infant feeding.