Breastfeeding Outside The Box

It was great to hear from our show's co-host, Hope, about her inspiring journey to nursing her daughter by adoption.  Hope originally learned that breastfeeding in adoption was possible during her doula training.  Armed with the knowledge that breastfeeding would be possible for her even though she   was unable to conceive, Hope found resources on adoptive breastfeeding to be pretty scarce at first.  Fortunately, more information and support continued to emerge.  Here are some of the top resources that Hope found: The asklenore website* got her started with a step-by-step approach for inducing lactation, called the Newman-Goldfarb Protocol.  The Newman-Goldfarb Protocol primarily consists of pumping and the use of pharmaceutical medications to induce lactation. Several months later, Hope discovered additional options for inducing lactation in the newly released book, Breastfeeding Without Birthing.  Using some ideas she read about, she choose to enhance the steps in the Newman-Goldfarb protocol by adding so