People often ask “I haven’t had any clinical experience. Is it too early to take the Lactation Education Course?” The truth is, there’s no simple…
I’ve talked before about “study” strategies that don’t work. Now, I want to talk about strategies that actually do work. I’m hesitant to say that…
A woman recently asked me, “I registered to take the exam in the fall. What should I do to make the best use of my…
Myth: The FDA puts infant formulas through rigorous testing to ensure safety and efficacy before it is released for use by infants. Fact: The FDA…
You’ve asked yourself the seven questions about how ready you are for the IBLCE exam. What can you do now to make sure you pass…
Uh oh. Here we go again: Another study supposedly showing that breastfeeding might not protect infants from developing allergies. I’ve seen lots of studies like this…
Spurred by a mother who asked about it, I recently re-read Hanna Rosin’s “The Case Against Breastfeeding,” published in The Atlantic in 2009. I was…
Anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar, M.D. developed the Apgar Score in 1952 as a “rapid method of assessing the clinical status of the newborn infant at 1…
Pursuing recognition as a Baby-Friendly Hospital can be a long and complicated process. If your hospital is in the planning stage for “going Baby-Friendly,” a…
It’s amazing – Whatever city I am in, whatever course I am teaching … in different cities, across the years, the people I talk with…