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…
Here we go again. Another day, same old question — or, at least, same type of question. Mothers [somewhere] are using [something] for [some breastfeeding…
“We’re stuck” in the Baby-Friendly Hospital designation process Awhile ago, I spoke with a nurse about her hospital’s efforts to earn the Baby-Friendly Hospital designation.…
Question from Five Keys participant: “Should I look at the photo first, or look at the question first?” I could make an argument for either…