Clinical Breastfeeding Handouts

Evidence-based PDF handouts to support clearer teaching, more confident conversations, and better infant feeding support.

A ready-to-use bundle of practical breastfeeding handouts designed to save you time and help you support families with clarity, confidence, and consistency.

Inside this downloadable bundle, you’ll receive a carefully created collection of clinical breastfeeding handouts covering some of the most common questions and challenges families face in the early weeks.

These PDFs are designed to help you explain breastfeeding more clearly, reinforce your guidance, and give parents something useful to take away and refer back to.

Whether you’re a midwife, doula, lactation professional, or birth worker, these handouts can help you communicate key information in a way that is simple, supportive, and grounded in good practice.

What’s included

This bundle includes handouts on topics such as:

• early feeding cues

• sleepy babies

• calming babies

• how to know baby is getting enough

• how to know baby is having a good feed

• feeding, expressing and topping up

• the formula milk top-up trap

• paced bottle feeding

• switch feeding

• sore nipples

• nipple shields

• milk storage

• co-bathing to get breastfeeding back on track

• treating blockages and inflammation

Why they’re useful

These handouts are designed to help you:

• save time creating your own resources

• give families clear, practical information

• support learning beyond the appointment

• explain complex topics more simply

• feel more prepared in day-to-day breastfeeding support

These handouts are for you if you want to…

Support families with professional, practical breastfeeding information without having to create every resource from scratch.

They are especially useful for birth workers who want printable, shareable PDFs they can use to reinforce support around common breastfeeding concerns.