My resources

‘Cordelia, your advice and help have been invaluable, I truly appreciate your approach and can’t thank you enough for everything.’ Natasha

My webinar

• Breastfeeding and Covid-19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRds8LouI5o&feature=youtu.be

My videos

• Good drinking at the breast in cross cradle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=aoWjwm1nMyQ&feature=emb_logo

• Good drinking at the breast in the baby led position: Good drinking at the breast - YouTube

• Good drinking at the breast in the baby led position: https://youtu.be/zx-P1I1AAjc

• Good drinking at the breast: https://youtu.be/VsONCzoOea0

• Good drinking at the breast 2023: https://youtube.com/shorts/mZijZZfsmmY?si=tSKpAOvOgOCDOwsb

• Baby who is ‘nibbling' at the breast, and not transferring much milk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ifwqCXk-Q

• Finger feeding a newborn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wcjrR_If0

• Newborn early feeding cues: https://youtu.be/IYUPdw8qQtw

• What good drinking looks like: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-98tWxlSJU/?igshid=g6awyu7n83cl

Other videos

• How to get an exaggerated latch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41fC0fQs1P8&feature=youtu.be

Articles

General parenting information:

• A father writes about his experience of shared parental leave (by Carl Sheppard, February 2020)

• What can mother rats teach us about parenting human babies?

• What kind of postnatal support is most helpful to a second time mother who would like to breastfeed?

• Babywearing

• Tips on how to breastfeed in a sling

• A new mother’s heartfelt letter to her mother-in-law

• Kathryn Stagg on why holistic sleep coaching is not sleep training

• Cranial osteopathy and breastfeeding

• Torticollis and plagiocephaly

• Kathryn Stagg on the importance of responsive parenting

• Recommended websites for infant feeding and parenting

Antenatal breastfeeding information:

• Antenatal harvesting of colostrum

• How to maximise your chances of successfully establishing breastfeeding: how-to-maximise-your-chances-of-successfully-establishing-breastfeeding

• Why does the U.K. have such low breastfeeding rates and how to buck the trend?

• How to find a maternity nurse or night nanny who is supportive of breastfeeding

• Preparing for a caesarean birth

• Nursing bra recommendations

• How breastmilk production works

• Why some women choose to breastfeed

• What is colostrum?

• What’s in breastmilk?

General breastfeeding information:

• How partners can be supportive and bond without giving a bottle

• Breastfeeding without pumping or giving bottles

• Ten surprising facts about breastfeeding: https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2020/06/23/news/10-surprising-facts-about-breastfeeding-1979767/ or ten-surprising-facts-about-breastfeeding

• Common breastfeeding myths debunked: https://www.mybaba.com/breastfeeding-myths/

• Breastfeeding twins

• Breastfeeding out and about

• The unexpected benefits of breastfeeding a baby with additional needs

• Breastfeeding a second child after a challenging experience first time round

• Travelling for work with a breastfed baby

• Breastfeeding and misogyny

Newborn information:

• Newborn feeding cues

• The importance of skin to skin: the-importance-of-skin-to-skin

• Why it’s crucial to offer both breasts at each feed

• Primary engorgement

• Reverse pressure softening for primary engorgement

• How to tell your breastfed baby is getting enough milk: howtotellyourbreastfedbabyisgettingenoughmilk

• What does active drinking at the breast look like? (Instagram videos): https://www.instagram.com/p/COdu0Nbg7TJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

• The let down reflex

• Cluster feeding

• Breastfeeding with big breasts: https://www.feedeatspeak.co.uk/blog/2020/12/9/breastfeeding-with-large-breasts

• Expressing after 6 weeks when breastfeeding is going well

• New guidance on sizing a breastshield/flange

• Responsive bottle-feeding

• Information on feeding your baby with infant formula

• Information on the Baby Buddha pump

• Notes on the Durham University Parent-Infant Sleep Lab Conference 2018

• Baby naps

Breastfeeding challenges:

• Coping with a sleepy newborn

• Sore and damaged nipples

• Moist wound healing for cracked or damaged nipples

• Treating a nipple bleb (milk blister)

• Revised information on dealing with blocked ducts and mastitis

• How to apply a nipple shield (Instagram video): https://www.instagram.com/p/CEezPPqgZpj/

• What to do if your newborn isn’t latching

• How to protect your breastfeeding journey if your baby is receiving supplemental feeds

• How to maintain your milk supply if you have to stop breastfeeding temporarily

• Therapeutic ultrasound for blocked ducts and mastitis

• What is tongue-tie?

• Tongue-tie - a mother describes her experience of having a tongue-tied baby

• Low milk supply: low-milk-supply

• Coping with oversupply: oversupply

• Treating a bleb (also known as a milk blister)

• A mother describes her experience of using a supplemental nursing system supplementing-at-the-breast

• A mother’s experience of mixed feeding

• Breast rejection after bottles

• What to do when baby bites

• How to cope when your breastfed baby has a cold

• When a breastfeeding mother is ill

• The distractible baby

• Tosan Adjene writes about her experience of establishing breastfeeding with her premature baby

Breastfeeding positions:

• In praise of the side-lying position In praise of the side-lying position

• In praise of the baby-led breastfeeding position

Information for those breastfeeding older babies and toddlers:

• Breastfeeding while working from home

• Breastfeeding and returning to work: https:// www.feedeatspeak.co.uk/blog/2020/2/26/how-to-manage-going-back-to-work-when-you-are-breastfeeding

• How to manage going back to work when you’re breastfeeding an older baby

• Breastfeeding past infancy

• Letter to a dentist

• Finding childcare providers that are supportive of breastfeeding

• A mother describes her experience of gently weaning her toddler

• Elsa’s weaning story

• Tandem Feeding

• Office maternity room

Information on introducing solids:

• Baby-led Weaning

• Why-wait-to-6-months-before-introducing-solids ?

• Constipation in an older breastfed baby

• Emma Pickett interviews me about introducing solids for her podcast “Makes Milk”: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/makes-milk-with-emma-pickett/id1697865705?i=1000633911477

My padlets

• Attachment and positioning at the breast: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/5y04zfqv5wlj?utm_source=started_a_padlet&utm_medium=email&utm_content=padlet_url&utm_campaign=started_a_padlet

• Early hours and days: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/mcoev2730wol

• Breastfeeding challenges: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/izv8z0gxu6ox

• Baby behaviours and brain development: Baby behaviours and brain development

• Becoming a mother: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/mjntpfukrspr

• For dads: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/9g07qf1e8slt

• Baby’s sleep: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/kpyn84mv78la

• Baby care: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/k5ga0j19ghq5

• Information on formula milk: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/auq7brj71564

• Scientific research into breastmilk: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/a6h5oeg7uko9

• Baby wearing: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/oxln8m5bslx

• Expressing, pumping and bottle feeding: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/j8m9nednksy2?utm_source=started_a_padlet&utm_medium=email&utm_content=padlet_url&utm_campaign=started_a_padlet

• The neonatal experience: The neonatal experience

• Breastfeeding past 6 months: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/cohl7u9ylwlz

• Going back to work and breastfeeding: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/8yutg8c1woli

• Breastfeeding twins: Breastfeeding twins - pillows, pumps and pumping

• When twins come early: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/s7olr2vb7cy8?utm_source=started_a_padlet&utm_medium=email&utm_content=padlet_url&utm_campaign=started_a_padlet

• Breastfeeding with Covid-19: Breastfeeding with Covid-19

• Introducing solids general articles & websites: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/ewwnsy3qj2g9

• Baby-Led Weaning articles and research: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/ecm60nq756jv

• Introducing solids - books: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/a4ew18su4hpv

• Introducing solids - research on waiting to 6 months: https://padlet.com/cordeliauys/6uqscx62kzq1

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