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Resources

These are some of our favourite scientific and popular resources related to topics of interest in the THRiVE Lab.
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Popular Articles​

  • Conversation Canada - Breastfeeding is recommended during pandemic, but coronavirus has changed support systems
  • The Washington Post - ​​​​​Why scientists are working to unlock these five puzzles about mother's milk
  • The Guardian - ​The human microbiome: why our microbes could be key to our health
  • The Washington Post - ​​​Why do we understand so little about breast-feeding?
  • National Geographic - ​​​​​How Breast Milk Engineers a Baby's Gut (and Gut Microbes)
  • The Stranger - ​The More I Learn About Breast Milk, the More Amazed I Am
  • The New Yorker - Breast Feeding the Microbiome
  • International Milk Genomics Consortium - Relationship Between Breastfeeding & Allergies: It's Complicated
  • The Conversation - ​Does breastfeeding really belong on the school curriculum?
  • The New York Times - Breast Milk is Teeming With Bacteria - That's Good for the Baby
  • ​The Conversation - ​Breastfeeding research improves lives and advances health, but faces conflicts
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Websites

  • ​​National Guidelines: Breastfeeding (Public Health Agency of Canada) 
  • SEERAVE Foundation - The Microbiota Vault Initiative
  • The Milk Mob
  • ​WIC Works
  • ​WABA World Breastfeeding Week World Health Organization (WHO)​
  • Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
  • 1000 Days - Global Breastfeeding Collective
  • Human Milk - Tailor Made for Tiny Humans
  • Parenting Science Gang - Breastmilk composition and child health
  • Liquid Gold Concept: Simulation-based learning in maternal-child care 
  • Let Them Eat Dirt​
  • MaxiMoM: Maximizing Mothers' Milk for Preterm Infants
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Research

  • ​​​Understanding the mother-breastmilk-infant "triad" - Science - March 2020
  • Breastfeeding Series in the Lancet 2016
  • UC SanDiego - Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence
  • ​The International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation 
  • ​DOHaD Society - International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
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Breastfeeding Training Modules by Dr. Catherine Pound

  • Module 1 - Feeding Difficulties
  • Module 2 - Tongue Tie
  • Module 3 - Breastfeeding for Babies with Jaundice

Videos

  • ​​​CHILD Cohort Study: New scientific insights into breastfeeding
  • Introducing The Human Gut Microbiome
  • TED Talk - What we don't know about mother's milk?
  • ​How you can help support a breastfeeding mom
  • The Baby-Friendly Initiative: Strengthening Indigenous Families and Communities 
  • ​The CHILD Study - discovering root causes of allergies, asthma and chronic disease
  • The CHILD Cohort Study and a baby’s microbiome​
  • Droplet - First milk matters most
  • How Lactation Works - Association of Breastfeeding Mothers (ABM)​​​​

Podcasts

  • ​​​​Breastfeeding Medicine
  • Shiny Epi People
  • How to Fail
  • AcaDames
  • Biomes
  • Free Associations
  • UnF*ck Your Brain
  • Dare to Lead
  • How I Built This​
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Educational Materials

​Education Toolkits​
  • ​​​Alabama Department of Public Health (Grades K-12): ​click here to download
  • Ontario Public Health Association (Grades 9-12): click here download / (available in French)
  • Leicestershire Healthy Schools (Grades 9-12): click here download
  • Marion County of Public Health Department (Grades 9-12): click here to download
  • Breastfeeding More Than Milk (Early Years): click here to download​
Presentations
  • Mammals Feeding their Babies Since the Beginning of Time
  • Celebrity Breastfeeding Tic-Tac-Toe
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Training Courses

  • Coursera - Short course on breastfeeding 
  • Breast Milk Scientific and Microbiome Courses​

Letters and Reports

  • Protecting and Supporting Breastfeeding to Advance Women's Health in Canada - A brief submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Women's Health ​​

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