Parent Resources

Did you know? 

A consultation with an IBCLC can help with formula supplementation as well, not just breastfeeding help as some people think because of our name. 

IBCLCs are actually infant feeding specialists from birth through to solids and weaning safely when ready.

Young children, especially infants, are vulnerable to food-borne illness. Babies can have difficulties fighting off infections because their immune systems are not yet fully developed. 

Health Canada recommends breastfeeding your baby. Human milk is the best food for your baby. When a baby is not breastfed, liquid infant formula and powdered infant formula are acceptable alternatives. 

Here is a great resource to help with the different types of formula available. 

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/milk-infant-formula/preparing-handling-powdered-infant-formula.html

Also, please note that it is important to keep track of the brand of formula and the batch number in case of adverse reactions and recalls. 

To check to see if a formula has been recalled in Canada type in word formula to the search here: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en

Sleep is a developmental process, and our sleep needs change throughout our lifetimes. Babies’ sleep patterns mature over the first several years of life, and the sleep architecture of newborns is very different to that of adults. Newborns sleep for 18-20 or so hours a day, but only for 2-3 hours at a time. During the first year overall sleep duration falls to around 15 hours, and the majority of sleep becomes consolidated during night-time as circadian rhythms develop  

Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab  

This website is intended to give scientifically –based information, provide downloadable scientific articles, as well as provide access to educational PowerPoint presentations and television appearances about Dr. McKenna's on mother-infant cosleeping and breastfeeding.  

https://cosleeping.nd.edu/

Basis (The baby sleep info source)

formerly Infant Sleep Info Source (ISIS)  

The aim of Basis (the Baby Sleep Information Source) is to provide access to research based evidence about biologically normal infant sleep, in forms that are accessible to parents and health practitioners, supported by references to research relevant to families in the UK. We conceptualise ‘biologically normal infant sleep’ as being the sleep of babies who are exclusively or predominantly breastfed to at least 6 months of age and cared for in a responsive manner. We do not consider sleep training methods that require leaving babies alone for sleep in the first year of life to be biologically normal. 

 https://www.basisonline.org.uk/

An IBCLC, through a lactation consultation, can help with more than breastfeeding help and feeding concerns, we can help with sleep concerns as well.