While you are considering or longing to adopt a baby, you may perhaps learn that breastfeeding may also be possible in an adoptive family. Or you are currently experiencing the first weeks with your baby. When you ponder whether you, as an adoptive family, want to begin to breastfeed, you need special, comprehensive information and empathetic support for this special journey. In this brochure, you will be escorted through the experience of breastfeeding in an adoptive family and supported in developing closeness and bonding. This classic publication in an adoptive family is a comprehensive brochure on the topic. Also for mothers who, following an interruption in breastfeeding, want to start breastfeeding again, this publication contains important information on relactation.    

68 pages, 18 photos    

FOR PROFESSIONALS: “Relactation, Review of experience and recommendations for practice” is a classic on the topic, a comprehensive and, at the same time, a concise summary of the essential influential factors, when a mother wants to boost her milk supply, to breastfeed again after an interruption of it or to induce lactation for a child to whom she has not given birth. Obviously, the physiological bases remain the same and the literature on the topic since then is modest. Frequent, intensive breastfeeding, supplementary feeding at the breast and a great deal of support are the most important measures. Supplementing at the breast with a tube and a cup is described.

A4, 38 pages, World Health Organization, 1998

When you want to breastfeed but your baby needs a supplementation giving this milk during breastfeeding is closest to exclusive breastfeeding. But how do you do this practically? The parent-information with many color photos describes tried and tested instructions for breastfeeding with the supplementary nursing system. Short reports from mothers help you to find out whether the SNS would make sense for you.

With the SNS, the baby receives milk from the breast and additional formula or pumped milk through a thin silicon tube. This encourages the baby to suck longer and more intensively at the breast. You save time, milk production will be stimulated and weight gain improved. So the SNS helps many nursing pairs to achieve a breakthrough and quite a few achieve exclusive breastfeeding again. More information about at-breast supplementation and the Supplementary Nursing System online.

16 pages, 34 colored photos

A hook is very practical when using the Supplementary Nursing System (SNS). With a hook, the container of the SNS can easily be attached and detatched from the neck cord – with one hand. Thereby, the cord must no longer be threaded in or out for each cleaning.  An other problem without hook is, that a container which has the neck cord threaded cannot stand alone. The eyelets of the hook can be bent upwards and, following the insertion of the cord, can be bent down again.