Breastfeeding Triage Tool: Tips on how to properly breastfeed your infant

The Breastfeeding Triage Tool includes fact sheets that detail steps to properly breastfeed your baby from infancy to 3 years old.

The Breastfeeding Triage Tool was authored by the following:

• Sandra Jolley, PhD, ARNP, IBCLC
• Ellen Phillips-Angeles, MS, CHES
• Ilana Chertok, PhD, RN, IBCLC

Download the order form* to purchase professionally printed hard copies. You may also download and print off the fact sheets below.

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This tool has proven invaluable to thousands of health care professionals and others who help mothers manage breastfeeding problems. A new section “Breastfeeding Initiation” was added to assist with breastfeeding right after birth. There are revisions throughout the text, plus an enhanced and updated references and index. Chapter markers have been added to pages to enhance identification of sections and for ease in cross-referencing. This pocket-sized triage tool is designed to help health care professionals make decisions about breastfeeding problems while on the telephone with clients. It helps you identify the problem, offer solutions and determine when patients need to be seen. The Triage Tool is divided into 9 Chapters, starting with “General Information” about breastfeeding. Patient education fact sheets are included for you to copy for your clients. A telephone consultation form, overview of breast pumps, index and glossary make this an invaluable reference you will want to carry with you everywhere.

Breastfeeding fact sheets -- Download and print

The fact sheets are in Adobe PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on your computer to open PDFs. Click here to download and install Reader for free.

The Breastfeeding Fact Sheets are two-page educational handouts on specific topics. They translate the technical information from the Breastfeeding Triage Tool into more user-friendly language for your clients/patients. Minimal words are used and the reading level is set at grade 7.

	Fact Sheet 1: Why Breastfeed?
	Fact Sheet 2: Getting Started -- The First Month
	Fact Sheet 3: Breastfeeding Positions
	Fact Sheet 4: Latching On
	Fact Sheet 5: Common Problems
	Fact Sheet 6: Hand Expression
	Fact Sheet 7: Using the Electric and Hand Pump
	Fact Sheet 8: Returning to Work or School
	Fact Sheet 9: Weaning
	Fact Sheet 10: Sick Mom or Baby
	Fact Sheet 11: Breastfeeding and Your Partner
	Fact Sheet 12: Birth Control, Sex and Breastfeeding
	Fact Sheet 13: Breastfeeding your Preterm Baby