These chapter numbers are provided for the three textbooks we recommend, however each textbook covers the material in different ways. If you cannot find specific or comprehensive answers to the Study Guide questions in your textbook, please refer to the 'Recommended readings' (and do please let us know if the links need updating!).

Required pre-reading : 

Breastfeeding & Human Lactation, 6th edn, 2021, Wambach, K, & Spencer, B.

Chapter 7 Perinatal and Intrapartum Care

Chapter 9 Postpartum Care

Chapter 13 Breast Pumps and Other Technologies

Chapter 14 The Use of Human Milk and Breastfeeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Chapter 15 Donor Milk Banking

Chapter 20 The Ill Child: Breastfeeding Implications

OR

Core Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Lactation Care, 2nd edn, 2022, Campbell, S.H., Lauwers, J., Mannel, R., & Spencer, B.

Chapter 13 Facilitating Initiation of Lactation

Chapter 14 The Preterm Infant

Chapter 15 Breastfeeding and Multiples

Chapter 24 Alternative Feeding Devices and Topical Treatments

Chapter 31 Expression and Use of Human Milk

OR 

Counseling the Nursing Mother, 7th edn, 2021, Lauwers, J. & Swisher, A.

Chapter 15 Getting Breastfeeding Started

Chapter 22 Breastfeeding Techniques and Devices

Chapter 24 High-Risk Infants

Recommended reading:

Australasian Lactation Courses, NICU Acronyms https://australasianlactationcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/NICU-Acronyms.pdf

Boies, E. G., Vaucher, Y. E., & Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. (2016). ABM Clinical Protocol #10: Breastfeeding the late preterm (34–36 6/7 weeks of gestation) and early term infants (37–38 6/7 weeks of gestation), https://www.bfmed.org/assets/DOCUMENTS/PROTOCOLS/10-breastfeeding-the-late-pre-term-infant-protocol-english.pdf

Eglash, A., Simon, L., & Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. (2017). ABM clinical protocol #8: human milk storage information for home use for full-term infants, https://www.bfmed.org/assets/DOCUMENTS/PROTOCOLS/8-human-milk-storage-protocol-english.pdf

Kellams, A., Harrel, C., Omage, S., Gregory, C., Rosen-Carole, C., & Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. (2017). ABM clinical protocol #3: supplementary feedings in the healthy term breastfed neonate, https://www.bfmed.org/assets/DOCUMENTS/PROTOCOLS/3-supplementation-protocol-english.pdf

Noble, L. M., Okogbule-Wonodi, A. C., Young, M. A., & Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. (2018). ABM clinical protocol #12: transitioning the breastfeeding preterm infant from the neonatal intensive care unit to home, https://www.bfmed.org/assets/DOCUMENTS/PROTOCOLS/12-NICU-Graduate-Going-Home-english.pdf

Wiciński M, Sawicka E, Gębalski J, Kubiak K, Malinowski B. Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Health Benefits, Potential Applications in Infant Formulas, and Pharmacology. Nutrients. 2020 Jan 20;12(1):266. doi: 10.3390/nu12010266. PMID: 31968617; PMCID: PMC7019891.

Yamamoto, R. C. D. C., Prade, L. S., Bolzan, G. D. P., Weinmann, A. R. M., & Keske-Soares, M. (2017). Readiness for oral feeding and oral motor function in preterm infants. Revista CEFAC, 19, 503-509. https://www.scielo.br/j/rcefac/a/kQxVYKKH76RtK6ggRTgNjpw/