These are some of our favourite scientific and popular resources related to topics of interest in the THRiVE Lab.
The "Tree of Life Images" above are used with permission from: keeponboobin, mirandamacneil, mel.styles2108, RubyPhan.

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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

Credit: The New York Times

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Websites

• Breastfeeding Committee for Canada
• ​​National Guidelines: Breastfeeding (Public Health Agency of Canada) 
• SEERAVE Foundation - The Microbiota Vault Initiative
• Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding & Lactation Education 
• ​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

Credit: Human Milk UK

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Research

• ​​​Understanding the mother-breastmilk-infant "triad" - Science 2020
• Breastfeeding Series - Lancet 2023
• Breastfeeding Series - Lancet 2016
• ​​The International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation (ISHRML)
• ​DOHaD Society - International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Breastfeeding. Credit - The Lancet

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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)​​​​

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Podcasts

• ​​​​Breastfeeding Medicine
• Shiny Epi People
• How to Fail
• AcaDames
• Biomes
• Free Associations​
• Dare to Lead
• How I Built This​
• ABC Babytalk: Breastmilk Research
• Breastmilk Biomes

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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

Breastfeeding. Credit: Association of Breastfeeding mothers

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Training Courses

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

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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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Infographics

Creators as shown. Click to download in PDF format.