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How can doulas support their breastfeeding clients?
This post is a summary of what I’m talking about at a local doula meeting this evening. Anyone that wants to suggest additional ideas please comment. References for many of the facts that I cite can be...
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Resource links for health care providers
I just added a category of links on my library page for health care providers. These are resources for people that are working with breastfeeding women and babies that need information about...
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Great latch article
My friend Nora just gave me a heads-up on this article by Fleur Bickford on the Best for Babes site. There are so many unhelpful things out there about latch – so many detailed instructions about...
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Working and pumping: where to find out more about the law
Last year a new law was passed that requires employers to provide a space and break time for breastfeeding mothers to pump for their babies. These links have information about what the law provides and...
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Doulas are awesome…
I don’t think I can say this often enough: The easiest way to get breastfeeding off to a good start is a birth that is as natural as possible. Of course a natural birth doesn’t guarantee that...
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Breastfeeding and the law – where to get information?
It can be hard to know how a breastfeeding mother and family will be affected by laws. First of all it can be hard to find out what the laws say. Then knowing what they say isn’t enough – most of us...
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Good news/bad news or environmental contamination of breastmilk
You may have heard in the news that mothers’ milk is contaminated with toxic chemicals. It is true. It is also true that everyone agrees that breastmilk is the first choice food for babies. All major...
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New AAP resolution
This may seem like a dry, legalistic-sounding (maybe even boring) document but it says something that I find really exciting: Resolve that the Academy advise pediatricians not to provide formula...
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Is eating good food too expensive?
Breastfeeding is about lots of things but one of the biggest ones is nutrition. Many families choose breastfeeding and breastmilk because it is the best food for babies. Breastfeeding is also generally...
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Snuggling baby skin to skin
My fourth birth went from being a planned homebirth to a vacuum-assisted, epidural-numbed hospital birth. One of the things that worried me a lot about this transfer was how we would do with...
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Breastfeeding in the US – in a nutshell
I think one of the most interesting parts of this is the comparison of breastfeeding rates in the US at one year with the UNICEF survey of rates at two years. What is it about other cultures that makes...
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Hand Expression
Hand expression is so useful: engorgement, pump broken, away from baby longer than expected. It is a skill that is easier to learn by watching and doing than by reading about it. We’re lucky to have...
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More basic biology of milk-making
I was super excited to see this article reporting on research coming out of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. So many women I see struggle with low milk supply and there are very few answers for them....
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Does breastfeeding really need to be interrupted?
It is easy to forget that breastfeeding is much more than just breastmilk. When a nursing mama is sick and needs medical care it can be super stressful to bottle feed, pump & dump – even if her...
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“Climb Out of the Darkness”
The emotions of having a new baby can be complicated: joy, sadness, love, anxiety. Postpartum can be a rough time for lots of families. The Dane County Perinatal Network is a great resource for parents...
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Many ways to be normal
This is just a sample from a great post by Jaqueline Kent: The breastfed infants, who were all growing normally, cued to feed between four and 13 times a day. Some of the infants (13%) only ever fed...
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Resources for employers
Many women in the USA return to work while their babies are just weeks or maybe months old. There are many ways employers can support breastfeeding employees – by helping connect mamas and babies for...
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Nonprescription drugs, galactogogue recipe book, and more useful info from...
Many websites try to put all information about everything they can imagine someone wanting to know about their topic on their pages. It can make websites difficult to use and even harder to evaluate...
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Breastfeeding education for doctors in training
I have the pleasure of spending time with first year residents from the family practice program in Madison. They join me at my Happy Bambino drop in clinic during a week of their newborn rotation. So...
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