There are many reasons for why hospitals “can’t” go Baby-Friendly, but experience shows that when the obstacles are addressed, they actually can. I’ve addressed “Be” objections and “Do”…
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Going Pathway 3? If so, you’ll need to grapple with some hard questions on your Pathway 3 plan to become an IBCLC. I’ve heard dozens of…
Of the hundreds of questions I’ve fielded in my years as a IBCLC exam prep instructor, this is probably the one I have heard most…
The first of the “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding,” the lynchpin of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, reads: “Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely…
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…
It’s amazing – Whatever city I am in, whatever course I am teaching … in different cities, across the years, the people I talk with…