During thirty-plus years in maternal-child nursing, mothers have told me many reasons for why they believe they can’t breastfeed, or why they don’t want to.…
Over the years, I’ve heard this many times: “I feed my baby formula because it’s more convenient.” Research studies about infant practices have reported the…
As I’ve explained before, breastfeeding protects against breast cancer. But YES, it’s absolutely possible to breastfeed after having breast cancer. True, the treatment you’ve had…
As the course creator for an IBCLC prep course, I teach how to “ascertain the mother’s breastfeeding goal.” How can I teach someone to do…
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that the flu results in between 9.3 and 49 million illnesses each year in the United States alone.…
In a previous post, I talked about reasons why medications might be used in labor and birth. Here, I’ll discuss a few medications that are…
All 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have laws protecting a mother’s right to breastfeed in any public…
Each year, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy (WABA) establishes a slogan. The slogan for World Breastfeeding Week 2019 is: EMPOWER PARENTS, ENABLE BREASTFEEDING, Now…
We know that nicotine is harmful to your health, and that includes vaping. About 10-11% of breastfeeding mothers are vaping. However, as Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter…
We Americans have learned to think that bigger is better. Bigger cars, bigger houses, bigger servings of food. (For instance, have you ever been in…