FOR PROFESSIONALS: The Program LACTDOC for Documentation and Weight Monitoring of Breastfed Babies helps to document the individual growth curves of babies with minimal effort. Enter gender, date and the corresponding weight, length and head circumference - the program LACTDOC (for Excel) automatically plots the individual growth curve into the WHO Standards (see the video Plotting weight curves with LACTDOC). LACTDOC allows for entering data both in gram and pounds, in cm and inches. The baby’s weight curve can be labeled with legends that depict the feeding method and the most important measures. This will improve your overview of the situation, leads to clarity what measures to suggest and allows to verify the effectiveness of the measures recommended. The attached booklet summarizes the interpretation of weight curves (see Videos on Evaluating Weight in the first months).

LACTDOC is available as Download. You will receive a secure link which is valid 24 hours after the first download of the zip-file LACTDOC. It contains the Excel-File LACTDOC, a short instruction, the booklet “Evaluation of Growth Curves”, 24 pages, and a table with Evaluation Criteria. System requirements: Excel needs to be installed on Windows or Mac. Alternatively, LACTDOC is also available as LACTDOC on CD.

FOR PROFESSIONALS: The Program LACTDOC for Documentation and Weight Monitoring of Breastfed Babies helps to document the individual growth curves of babies with minimal effort. Enter gender, date and the corresponding weight, length and head circumference - the program LACTDOC (for Excel) automatically plots the individual growth curve into the WHO Standards (see the video Plotting weight curves with LACTDOC). LACTDOC allows for entering data both in gram and pounds, in cm and inches. The baby’s weight curve can be labeled with legends that depict the feeding method and the most important measures. This will improve your overview of the situation, leads to clarity what measures to suggest and allows to verify the effectiveness of the measures recommended. The attached booklet summarizes the interpretation of weight curves (see Videos on Evaluating Weight in the first months).

Booklet “Evaluation of Growth Curves”, 24 pages, CD with LACTDOC, system requirements: Excel needs to be installed on Windows or Mac. Alternatively, LACTDOC is also available as LACTDOC as DOWNLOAD.

The film describes the long way of a family with a baby with oral clefts – including breastfeeding, pumping, finger-feeding, the Supplementary Nursing System (SNS) and various other devices until he was able to breastfeed without any aids after surgery of the clefts. The film addresses expectant parents, parents who unexpectedly had a baby with a cleft, grandparents and professionals.

DVD, 25 minutes; the chapters can be selected individually.

Languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, English

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.