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Breastfeeding at Night and Infant Sleep Recommendations

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Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Breastfeeding at Night and Infant Sleep Recommendations

 

At our 10th annual conference-Overcoming Roadblocks for Breastfeeding Success, we had a panel that discussed “Breastfeeding By The Light of The Moon”.  In this panel links were presented as helpful information regarding breastfeeding at night; and infant sleep recommendations

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Categories : Breastfeeding, Featured, Moms, Professionals

Non-medication Treatment Study for Postpartum Depression

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Sunday, March 18th, 2012

I wanted to let you know about a study we are doing at UNC that uses trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to treat postpartum depression. This is a non-medication form of treatment, a very well tolerated outpatient procedure, that allows for women to continue breast feeding without any risk of exposure to medications via the breast milk. In your work assisting breast-feeding women, you may come across women with depression who do not wish to take medications. This study could provide them an alternative form of treatment. 

I have attached the study flier. Treatment will be free for study participants. 

A website that explains what TMS is: www.neurostartms.com/ 

I want to emphasize that this treatment is nothing like ECT! Patients are awake and alert through out the procedure, and are able to take care of their babies and drive themselves home immediately after treatment. No anaesthesia, no memory effects etc. Sometimes people do experience a headache. 

See Flyer
PPD and TMS flier[1]

If I can answer any questions for you about the study, please call me at the number below. 

Many thanks,

Susan

 Susan Killenberg, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
UNC Women’s Mood Disorders Program
(919) 929 7449

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Categories : Breastfeeding, Moms

WakeMed Andrews Center Lactation Room

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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

 

Mission possible!

In response to the ongoing request by conference participants, Wake AHEC set on a mission to establish a designated space specifically for breastfeeding mothers needing to pump or express milk while attending programs within the WakeMed Andrews Conference Center.  Although the need has always been met by finding an available office, mothers needed a little more.  A meeting of the minds to locate the opportune space was held between Karen Perry, Practice Administrator, WFP OB/Gyn, Sherika HiSmith George, Associate Director for Nursing Education, Wake AHEC and Jane Davis, Practice Supervisor, WFP OB/Gyn. This resulted in a quaint space on the second floor of the Conference Center offering a piece of comfort for mothers.

 

 

 

Thanks to the support of the Triangle Breastfeeding Alliance who facilitated grant funding from the MidSouth Lactation Consultant Association and to WakeMed who donated items. Mothers now have a warmly decorated space conducive to their breastfeeding needs equipped with a comfortable chair and ottoman, hospital grade breast pump (donated by WakeMed Lactation Services), stimulating artwork and soft lighting.

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Categories : Breastfeeding, Featured, Working Moms

Petition asks Sesame Street to bring back breastfeeding

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Sunday, January 15th, 2012

 

Have you heard about the online petition to bring back breastfeeding on Sesame Street? 

The petition says: 

We are not asking Sesame Street to remove bottle feeding. We are asking that both ways of feeding babies be shown as normal.   If we normalize breastfeeding in our community, especially with our children, we can help raise a generation of breastfeeders which will support our economy, make for healthier children and lessen the risk of breast cancer for many nursing mamas!

 

Click here to read the rest of the article and to watch the wonderful videos-The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog

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Categories : Breastfeeding, Lighter Side, Media, New Moms

Department of Labor begins enforcing workplace pumping law, cites 23 companies

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Friday, January 6th, 2012

Here’s some good news to start the year:  Remember the incredible news in 2010 that the federal health care reform legislation extended lactation accommodations to many employees nationwide?

Well, the news this week is that the Department of Labor has begun enforcing the law, sometimes known as “Break Time for Nursing Mothers.”

 

Read rest of article-The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog

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Categories : Working Moms

From “Need” to “Nice:” Best Gifts for the Breastfeeding Mother.

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

 

This is an older article but helps in this season to help choose the best gifts that mothers really want and need. 

This article gives links tomany other sites about great gifts as well.

To read article-The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog

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Categories : New Moms

A Babe’s Guide to Pumping

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Source:http://mommymolecules.blogspot.com/2010/07/web-comic-boob-in-bottle.html

Whether pumping at work, pumping at home for the occasional night out, or pumping to protect milk production while managing breastfeeding challenges, many mothers these days use a breast pump at some point during their nursing relationship. Regardless of the reason, it’s important to have good information, so below are tips to help you ensure that things go smoothly.

 

Read rest of article for tips on making pumping work for you-Best For Babes

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Categories : New Moms, Working Moms

Milk banks facing “unprecedented” shortage

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Sunday, November 27th, 2011

A while back I interviewed Pauline Sakamoto, director of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, on the Motherlove Blog. She talked about the increase in demand for donor milk over the last ten years, and how milk banks sometimes struggle to meet the demand.

But recently, as hospitals have rapidly been changing their policies to make donor milk the standard of care for  preterm babies under certain gestational ages and weights, the rate of increase has become even steeper.

Read more-The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog

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Categories : Breastfeeding, New Moms

Working Moms Don’t Have a Fair Chance at Successfully Breastfeeding

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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Back in the day, breastfeeding was the only way to go because formula was not a safe option. In fact, the rates of death were somewhere between 50 and 90 percent, and the concoctions were something like bread broth, crumbs cooked in milk or water, or even milk with eggs and spices and sugar. Yiiiiikes! So the babies who did live on artificial food usually weren’t exactly thriving.

Read rest of article- The Stir

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Categories : Breastfeeding, Working Moms

6 Totally Selfish Reasons to Breastfeed

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Thursday, October 20th, 2011

breastfeeding momWe hear a lot about all the benefits of breastfeeding for babies: how a mother’s milk adapts to her baby’s changing needs; how it’s rich in nutrients; how it contains antibodies that protect infants from everything from asthma to diabetes to obesity to SIDS; how it promotes bonding — and, heck, may even make kids smarter!

So, yeah, there are a ton of selfless reasons to breastfeed. But you know what? There are also a lot of totally selfish reasons to breastfeed, too.

For instance? Well, let’s see …

 

Read rest of article-The Stir

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