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25.01.2022 Looks like it's the exam for me next year...hate exams!

25.01.2022 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4702019/

23.01.2022 A warm chain of support creates an enabling environment that empowers all women/parents to breastfeed optimally! But what is breastfeeding support and why is it... important? How can we support breastfeeding in different contexts? What are some of the challenges and solutions in providing support in normal/crises situations? Join our 48-hour #AskMeAnything session on October 1 & 2 to tap into the experts' opinions & answers! Save the Children US La Leche League International UConn International Lactation Consultant Association BirthKuwait Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) AyahASI

22.01.2022 https://www.infantrisk.com//fenugreek-serotonin-syndrome-n

21.01.2022 Doing another little dance again, my Ethical IBCLC: Principles and Responsibilities has been awarded 8 E CERPS. Some great feedback from people who have completed the course so far: Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women was published in 1979, however, we are still fighting for some of the article(s). I really like the examples you gave, i.e. baby with dehydration and seizure, this makes learning most engaging. I was pleasantly surpri...sed by the comprehensiveness of the course, there were many links included to enhance the learning experience, and it felt like a ‘one stop shop’ for all things ethics. Very professional and well presented, great content! The intensity of the content was a little surprising as I did not initially anticipate the ‘heaviness’ of this topic, but this is likely because I am novice IBCLC. Easy to work through. The application of ethics in practice made it meaningful. My overall impression is that the course is a wonderful resource! I thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience and would recommend to my peers. Thank you to the 'testers' for reviewing this course. https://www.factsoflife.com.au/courses/elc01

20.01.2022 This is interesting given the number of presenters (with credibility/endorsement by association) who are funded by Code violators. Slippery slope.

20.01.2022 Great infographic.

19.01.2022 Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine discussion about the Covid vaccine and breastfeeding: https://www.bfmed.org/abm-statement-considerations-for-covi

18.01.2022 #Breastfeeding acts as a baby’s first vaccination and is a vital intervention in preventing infant/child deaths. For children, breastfeeding reduces the risk of... gastro-intestinal infections, upper respiratory infections, ear infections, the onset of obesity and it improves intellectual development. Find out more about the crucial role of breastfeeding, presented by Rafael Perez-Escamilla of the Yale School of Public Health: https://www.coursera.org//early-breastfeeding-initiation-W This #WorldChildren’sDay2020, tell us YOU will work to protect/promote/support breastfeeding! #voicesofyouth @UNICEF @WHO @ILCA

17.01.2022 Not the most recent study (understatement!) but a very interesting read. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1939962/

17.01.2022 Pretty amazing photography. And we humans think positioning for a feed can be a challenge!!

17.01.2022 Thank you Julie Patricia Smith

16.01.2022 Powerful trailer, will be watching the rest of the movie from a place of great discomfort, because I know it's true. https://www.zee5.com/global/movies/details/tigers/0-0-7599

16.01.2022 Fabulous opportunity! https://westernhealth.mercury.com.au/ViewPosition.aspx

14.01.2022 Interest article on induced lactation. https://journals.sagepub.com/d/abs/10.1177/0890334420950321

13.01.2022 I just love the work that James McKenna has done and continues to do. https://www.npr.org//is-sleeping-with-your-baby-as-dangero

13.01.2022 Immature brains do not have the ability to remove cortisol/stress alone. They learn to do so by repeated experiences of being soothed by their caregiver.

12.01.2022 If a father spends 30 minutes skin to skin with his baby on the first day of life, it rewires his brain for parenting." Nils Bergman Just like birth leads to a... series of important hormonal changes in mothers, it alters the hormonal state of our partners too. And just like oxytocin is important for mothers, it is important for partners too! Oxytocin enables us to enjoy parenting...especially the challenging (but lovely) monotony of early parenthood. The best ways for partners to bond with their baby is to do early skin to skin and to engage with their baby (everything from changing nappies to settling to bath time to baby wearing). Usually our partners get skin to skin after we have had our undisturbed first hour and we are getting ready to have a shower and freshen up! Did your partner get early skin to skin with your baby?" Words and Repost from Mother Down Under - Hypnobirthing Australia and Postnatal Specialist Image by Hadas Images #babybonding #skintoskin

12.01.2022 Looks like the world has a whole new group of IBCLCs. Congratulations everyone

11.01.2022 Just found a pretty amazing poster for human milk - the information is fabulous. https://www.human-milk.com/science

11.01.2022 #tummytime is essential for babies, especially in a back sleeping culture #tummytimemethod #ventralsurfaceweightbearing

10.01.2022 Breast milk provides the perfect source of early nutrition for babies. Support breastfeeding mums anytime, anywhere.

10.01.2022 The poster below is a perfect example of anti-breastfeeding "information". This notion that you can't eat certain foods when breastfeeding is not based in scien...ce. Let's look at some of the information. First of all let's look at foods that "okay" for breastfeeding mothers. Nothing really wrong with what they say except that you don't have to take in calcium to make milk with calcium. But the real problem is that this is a diet for people who are relatively affluent. Many mothers could not afford to eat such a diet and thus be frightened into formula feeding, which, I should emphasize is actually more expensive that the foods mentioned here. This is a stratagem used by formula companies. A prime example a few years ago was a campaign by one formula company in Brazil, supported by the Brazilian pediatric society, saying that your breastfed baby eats what you eat. Posters were widely distributed showing a baby suckling at a breast that looks like a doughnut, or looks like a hamburger. What about the panels of foods "to avoid". 1. Sugary foods. The poster says in this section to avoid fatty foods and salty foods as well as sugary foods. We all should try to keep our sugar, salt and fat intake at a reasonable level. But to imply that if you eat a lot of sugar your baby has an increased risk of obesity is just plain wrong. Breastmilk, in fact, does not change much in response to what you eat. It changes from morning to evening, from day to day, from month 1 to month 6, and later, but not because of what you eat. But if you eat a lot of sugar, your milk will have the same amount of sugar as if you ate no sugar at all. 2. "You might find that just a dash of pepper is enough to make your baby irritated and fussy for hours". This is pure fantasy. There is no evidence for this being true. And it is unlikely that anything in pepper or other spices would get into the milk in quantities that would bother the baby. 3. Citrus fruits? "Certain compounds" are supposed to the irritating to the baby´s gut. Oh, please! If these "certain compounds got into the milk would they not be irritating to the breast or nipple? 4. Caffeine? Babies do not excrete caffeine as rapidly as adults true, but so little gets into the milk that a cup or two of coffee will not bother the baby. Caffeine is given to premature babies as a treatment and nobody worries about how they might excrete caffeine. It's not right to deprive breastfeeding mothers from drinking coffee and tea in reasonable amounts. This poster eliminates much of what mothers like to eat. 5. Processed foods? Not a great choice for anyone, this is not specific to breastfeeding mothers. But just as above, the preservatives will not get into the milk in any significant quantities. 6. Garlic? Are they insane? Garlic does not bother babies. This is prejudice against people who eat garlic. Most of the world loves garlic and eat it when the baby breastfeeds without harm to anyone. 7. No peppermint, fennel, parsley, or chamomile? There is no evidence for this to show that the way people typically eat these can reach therapeutic levels. 8. Alcohol, no level of alcohol in the milk is safe for the breastfed baby? Except that almost no alcohol gets into the milk. See this article http://ibconline.ca/maternal-medications/. Alcohol is discussed near the end of the article, but it's worth reading the whole thing. This poster is an appalling attempt to frighten women out of breastfeeding and enjoying what they like to eat. These restrictions on what breastfeeding mothers can eat have been debunked decades ago. Let's encourage good nutrition for everyone, and let's stop haranguing breastfeeding mothers into stopping breastfeeding by worrying them about their diets. You can find a more about how to prevent problems with breastfeeding, including preventing fussiness, "colic", "reflux" "allergy to something in the mother's milk" and much more in my ebook called Breastfeeding: Empowering Parents: www.ibconline.ca/ebook

09.01.2022 Not all tongue ties require releasing. Lip ties seem to have become fashionable to do - following fashion is not always wise! More evidence is required to reign in what has become a great money-spinner for some. Caution please?

08.01.2022 Great article:https://theconversation.com/the-rise-of-commercial-milk-for

06.01.2022 Good luck and best wishes to all those wonderful people who will be undertaking the IBLCE exam. The exam will roll out from today until the end of September. These are challenging times due to Covid 19, which adds a layer of complexity for the exam candidates. Stay calm, read the questions carefully and remember, you have worked hard for this exam, you have this!

04.01.2022 A True Midwife is a kind of shaman for her community. A shaman is a person who lives with one foot in nature/spirit, and one foot in human society. The True Mi...dwives I have known are a human bridge between those worlds. In the birth room, they weave a web (of oxytocin?) that holds everybody in it, that supports the birthing woman, and into which the baby is born. Because the True Midwife bridges nature and culture, spirit and body, her support enables the birthing woman to let nature/spirit do its work through her body. This is the kind of person who should be in the room when a baby is getting born. As my own Medicine Woman Midwife Laura van Deth once said to me, "Hermine, there are moments in life that really matter, like when you are being born, when you are dying, and when you are giving birth. And at moments like that, the question is, Who is in the room? And what are they doing?" I was blessed to give birth with a True Midwife, and I have had the honor of knowing, defending, and advocating for many more. Once you have known midwives like these, you look at the uptight, closed-off OBs and medwives who are attending most births, and find it shocking that any woman would let them be in the room while she's giving birth. But that's why I am a lawyer for midwives: because True Midwives are barely allowed to exist, hunted down for daring to support women on their terms. True Midwives answer a calling and have to fight hard, for years, to be able to do their work, and these are midwives, not warriors. The midwives who should be attending childbirth are persecuted and driven out of maternity care by the doctors who want to be the only ones attending childbirth, but have no idea how to do so in a way that works with the female body instead of against it, and no real interest in learning. Sure, there are a few doctors who practice like True Midwives-- Brad Bootstaylor, I'm looking at you. But for the most part, the people who practice like True Midwives are midwives-- and I'll be honest, they're usually the older midwives. Around the world, and especially in the US, there are not enough midwives, as a result of state enforcement of medical monopoly. This will only change when women stand up for their right to midwifery care. If women knew what childbirth is like when they are loved and genuinely supported on their terms, they would stand up for that right. As Tanzanian journalist Kenneth Simbaya said at my 2015 Human Rights in Childbirth: Africa conference, "When people know what they have the right to expect, they have the audacity to demand it." May every healer who feels a calling to midwifery find the courage to ground her power in the Earth, and to work with spirit in the way that serves her community. May organized medicine finally get out of the way of midwifery and take its rightful place in maternity care: backing up midwives and providing medical assistance when it is actually wanted and needed. Only then will every birthing person have the opportunity to maximize the chance for a normal, healthy birth, and be assured that medical assistance is there if it becomes necessary. (Frederick Leighton, "The Return of Persephone," 1891.)

04.01.2022 Here's a waste of money: https://www.choice.com.au//are-toddler-formulas-just-marke

03.01.2022 Who would have guessed it! https://www.tandfonline.com//10.1080/22221751.2020.1780952

03.01.2022 This is the citation for the article below: http://www.nancymohrbacher.com//the-study-ive-waiting-for-

03.01.2022 Very excited to announce the opening of my Communication & Counselling course for those sitting the IBLCE in 2021. here is the link: https://factsoflife.com.au/courses/EP13

02.01.2022 The best formula is mother's milk.

02.01.2022 Breastfeeding is the most precious gift a mother can give her infant. If there is illness or infection it may be a life saving gift. If there is poverty it may be the only gift. Ruth A. Lawrence, M.D., FABMBreastfeeding is the most precious gift a mother can give her infant. If there is illness or infection it may be a life saving gift. If there is poverty it may be the only gift. Ruth A. Lawrence, M.D., FABM

01.01.2022 Some news from IBLCE about the exam results for the September exam candidates: https://iblce.org/news/update-12-10-2020/

01.01.2022 https://link.springer.com/artic/10.1245/s10434-020-09094-1