FOR PROFESSIONALS: The Program LACTDOC for Documentation and Weight Monitoring of Breastfed Babies helps to document the individual growth curves of babies with minimal effort. Enter gender, date and the corresponding weight, length and head circumference - the program LACTDOC (for Excel) automatically plots the individual growth curve into the WHO Standards (see the video Plotting weight curves with LACTDOC). LACTDOC allows for entering data both in gram and pounds, in cm and inches. The baby’s weight curve can be labeled with legends that depict the feeding method and the most important measures. This will improve your overview of the situation, leads to clarity what measures to suggest and allows to verify the effectiveness of the measures recommended. The attached booklet summarizes the interpretation of weight curves (see Videos on Evaluating Weight in the first months).

LACTDOC is available as Download. You will receive a secure link which is valid 24 hours after the first download of the zip-file LACTDOC. It contains the Excel-File LACTDOC, a short instruction, the booklet “Evaluation of Growth Curves”, 24 pages, and a table with Evaluation Criteria. System requirements: Excel needs to be installed on Windows or Mac. Alternatively, LACTDOC is also available as LACTDOC on CD.

FOR PROFESSIONALS: The Program LACTDOC for Documentation and Weight Monitoring of Breastfed Babies helps to document the individual growth curves of babies with minimal effort. Enter gender, date and the corresponding weight, length and head circumference - the program LACTDOC (for Excel) automatically plots the individual growth curve into the WHO Standards (see the video Plotting weight curves with LACTDOC). LACTDOC allows for entering data both in gram and pounds, in cm and inches. The baby’s weight curve can be labeled with legends that depict the feeding method and the most important measures. This will improve your overview of the situation, leads to clarity what measures to suggest and allows to verify the effectiveness of the measures recommended. The attached booklet summarizes the interpretation of weight curves (see Videos on Evaluating Weight in the first months).

Booklet “Evaluation of Growth Curves”, 24 pages, CD with LACTDOC, system requirements: Excel needs to be installed on Windows or Mac. Alternatively, LACTDOC is also available as LACTDOC as DOWNLOAD.

This paper describes how breastfeeding can be protected even if supplementation is necessary. When is supplementation of a breastfed baby really necessary? In an easy and reliable way, this can be determined with help of the weight curve. How to supplement, which device to choose, which quantities are important questions. At-breast supplementation is possible with different devices and protects breastfeeding. How can you evaluate the impact of supplementation with the weight curve? Baby-led reduction of supplements with visual assessment of the weight curve is time-saving and reliable.

8 pages, Lactation & Breastfeeding, 2021-2

For a free download from the webpage of Lactation & Breastfeeding click here: How to Supplement to Protect Breastfeeding

While you are considering or longing to adopt a baby, you may perhaps learn that breastfeeding may also be possible in an adoptive family. Or you are currently experiencing the first weeks with your baby. When you ponder whether you, as an adoptive family, want to begin to breastfeed, you need special, comprehensive information and empathetic support for this special journey. In this brochure, you will be escorted through the experience of breastfeeding in an adoptive family and supported in developing closeness and bonding. This classic publication in an adoptive family is a comprehensive brochure on the topic. Also for mothers who, following an interruption in breastfeeding, want to start breastfeeding again, this publication contains important information on relactation.    

68 pages, 18 photos    

FOR PROFESSIONALS: “Relactation, Review of experience and recommendations for practice” is a classic on the topic, a comprehensive and, at the same time, a concise summary of the essential influential factors, when a mother wants to boost her milk supply, to breastfeed again after an interruption of it or to induce lactation for a child to whom she has not given birth. Obviously, the physiological bases remain the same and the literature on the topic since then is modest. Frequent, intensive breastfeeding, supplementary feeding at the breast and a great deal of support are the most important measures. Supplementing at the breast with a tube and a cup is described.

A4, 38 pages, World Health Organization, 1998

When you want to breastfeed but your baby needs a supplementation giving this milk during breastfeeding is closest to exclusive breastfeeding. But how do you do this practically? The parent-information with many color photos describes tried and tested instructions for breastfeeding with the supplementary nursing system. Short reports from mothers help you to find out whether the SNS would make sense for you.

With the SNS, the baby receives milk from the breast and additional formula or pumped milk through a thin silicon tube. This encourages the baby to suck longer and more intensively at the breast. You save time, milk production will be stimulated and weight gain improved. So the SNS helps many nursing pairs to achieve a breakthrough and quite a few achieve exclusive breastfeeding again. More information about at-breast supplementation and the Supplementary Nursing System online.

16 pages, 34 colored photos