Nursing mothers are often told that eating chocolate while breastfeeding makes babies irritable and fussy because it contains caffeine. Is that true? Before jumping to…
Myth #1: All breastfeeding problems originate in the baby’s mouth In my recent interview with Carol Gray, I led with this question: Is craniosacral therapy…
Placentophagia, which is consuming your own placenta, has become a fairly common practice. Some women eat it raw or cooked. Others ingest it in capsule…
It’s common, at least in U.S. hospitals, for physicians to order lanolin cream for breastfeeding mothers “as needed” (in hospital lingo, “prn”). Throughout my years…
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…
Here we go again. Another day, same old question — or, at least, same type of question. Mothers [somewhere] are using [something] for [some breastfeeding…
Finally, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has updated its statement “The Transfer of Drugs and Therapeutics Into Human Breast Milk: An Update on Selected…
People who come to my 90-credit Comprehensive Lactation Course are sometimes surprised by the steady diet of ethics that I feed them. Perhaps that is…
Choosing formula over breastmilk has high costs for babies. Dr. Melissa Bartick made the case in her cost analysis of the effect of “suboptimal breastfeeding”…