Patient Education Resources

Below is a list of helpful and authoritative patient education online resources.

Childbirth

• LAMAZE
• Doula - DONA International
• INJOY Health Education Portal - Understanding Booklets
• March of Dimes - Education
• USDA - Nutrition - My Plate
• Smoke Free.gov - Help quitting smoking
• Moms’ Mental Health Matters – Action Plan for Depression and Anxiety During Pregnancy and After Birth
• Postpartum Support International - Postpartum Mental Health - Postpartum Depression
• Preeclampsia Foundation

Infant Care and Safety

• SAFE Kids
• OCHD - Healthy Families
• WIC
• NYS DOH - Newborn Screening Info
• NYS DOH - Newborn Screening for Congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV) Infection
• NICHQ Safe Sleep Quiz
• NIH - Safe Sleep
• CDC - Safe Sleep
• NYS DOH - Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention
• National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Period of Purple Crying
• McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Center - Prevent Child Abuse Information
• AAP - Healthy Children
• CDC
• CDC Vaccines for Your Children hyerlink to: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/index.html
• AAP Hepatitis B Vaccination Birth Dose Video
• CDC Hepatitis B Vaccination
• CDC RSV Prevention Education
• Consumer Product Safety Commission - Product Recall Information
• CPR

Infant Feeding

• First Latch Breastfeeding class on-line
• Breastfeeding - Office of Women's Health
• Breastfeeding - La Leche League
• First droplets - Dr. Jane Morton
• Stanford Medicine Breastfeeding Videos
• Global Health Media - A Variety of Breastfeeding videos
• How to Clean, Sanitize, and Store Infant Feeding Items - Centers for Disease Control
• IABLE Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education – Breastfeeding
  Videos
• Lactmed - A database with information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed
• Kellymom - Large collection of evidence-based informational articles (and links to further information) on breastfeeding and parenting topics
• Breastfeeding and Back to Work - For Breastfeeding mothers going back to work - New York State Department of Health
• Making it Work Toolkit - Online resource for breastfeeding mothers returning to work or school
• Breast Milk Expression in the Workplace – Your Rights – New York State Department of Health
• Making it Work Toolkit