The Breastfeeding Solution Circle: supporting breastfeeding mothers to make successful, long term breastfeeding a reality

Additional bibliography

Ramsay DT, Mitoulas L, Kent JC et al (2006). Milk flow rates can be used to identify and investigate milk ejection in women expressing breast milk using an electric breast pump. Breastfeeding Medicine 1(1):14–23.

Ramsay DT, Mitoulas LR, Kent JC et al (2005). The use of ultrasound to characterize milk ejection in women using an electric breast pump. Journal of Human Lactation 21(4):421–8.

Editor's note: At a recent meeting of the MIDIRS Midwifery Digest Editorial board, the board members were concerned over a lack of transparency for advertorials. The following article is written by a health care professional who works for Medela, a company that produces a range of equipment designed to offer support to breastfeeding women. We accept advertisements for Medela products and it is clear that they have considerable expertise in these specific areas. Going back to the editorial board discussion, while the following article does not promote the use of Medela products per se, it explains how the products may be effective, the most appropriate way to use them applied to physiology and general breastfeeding information, and should therefore probably should be considered as an advertorial. However, as this is information that is of use to all those offering support to breastfeeding mothers, I do not feel it is a conflict of interest to the MIDIRS marketing code to include it.