The following is a guest post by Kathy Dutton, an IBCLC who lives over in my neck of the woods on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. This was originally published in our local magazine, Island Child, and I am re-publishing it with the author’s permission. Can I still breastfeed if I have implants? The answer is [...]
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Leslie Ott, a certified lactation educator, who is working towards becoming a IBCLC has an idea that just may revolutionize American breastfeeding society and health care. She wants to create a non-profit organization to provide breastfeeding education, resources, lactation consultant services and support, breast pumps and supplies at little or no cost for low income [...]
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You are passionate about breastfeeding. You want to support other breastfeeding moms. You want to devote yourself to helping educate families and individuals about the importance of breastfeeding, and now you want to figure out how to do it. Read on – this post is for you. As an aside – Welcome to April’s “Carnival Of [...]
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A new study by the Boston University School of Public Health shows that even when hospitals encorage new mothers to breastfeed, those same hospitals sometimes do things that increase the chance the babies will end up drinking formula instead. See entire article here. Basically, trained maternity nurses who should have been taught “Breastfeeding 101″ at school [...]
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