Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
Every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants should:
Celebrating Skin to Skin
Immediately after delivery of a healthy infant my “routine” is to place the baby skin to skin on the mother’s chest and abdomen.
Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat
A large part of human milk that cannot be digested by babies coats the lining of a breast-fed infant's intestine, protecting it from noxious bacteria.
IBLCE recently participated in a video production about the IBCLC credential and the public health importance of care provided by IBCLCs. The video can be viewed on our HOME page and on YouTube
“A child’s life is made up of moments. Children learn by observing and interacting with their world, and every moment adds up to form the basis for the values, beliefs, habits, and memories which will carry them into adulthood. This seems obvious, but what does it have to do with breastfeeding?”
A Manhattan mom is suing a New York restaurant, saying she was kicked out for breastfeeding her five month old baby.
A little while back the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition was trying to figure out what to do about “las dos.”
“Las dos” (literally “the two” or “both”) or “las dos cosas” is slang in Spanish for feeding by both breast and bottle.
La Leche League’s latest magazine http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2d427022#/2d427022/1 Social Networking
A new fact sheet from the US Department of Labor providers information on break time requirements for nursing mothers that are now in effect as a result of passage of federal health care reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
We are reaching you today with an opinion poll,results of which we will utilise in our campaigns to gain support for women for breastfeeding their babies.
Miracle mum brings premature baby son back to life with two hours of loving cuddles after doctors pronounce him dead
Mothers who did not breastfeed their children are at significantly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life than moms who breastfed, reports a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Medicine.
We wanted to let you know about a special campaign from Ameda in celebrate of World Breastfeeding Month. The “I Breastfeed Because…” campaign gives women a voice to share and create a community to support breastfeeding moms everywhere.
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