Respect.
Before hospital discharge with her new baby, a mother felt bullied into taking Depoprovera™. She was a clinic patient but wanted to wait on the shot until her 6-week postpartum checkup. She was asked multiple times and even woken up from a sound sleep during her postpartum stay, and asked if she was sure she.. read more →
Power of mother.
The new mother stands in the center of a crowd of cheering Seattle Seahawk football fans. Everyone , except her, is looking at the camera. She is cradling a precious bundle; her downcast eyes see only her wonderful baby, her smile is tender and protective. This is a picture of mother love. read more →
Breastfeeding can be easy.
Yesterday, I made a home visit to a first time mother and her premature twins. She had a rough start on her journey to motherhood, full of expensive infertility treatments, into pre-eclampsia and a surgical delivery. Fortunately, the cesarean section and Intensive Care Nursery were in a hospital on its own journey, to Baby Friendly… read more →
Cow protein risky for premature infants
A grandmother wrote to me in despair. Her grandchild was born prematurely, and had undergone many terrible events while in the Intensive Care Nursery. The baby had developed a bowel obstruction and needed surgery to make an opening, called an ileostomy, to drain her small intestine to the outside world. This little one went on.. read more →
When rules get in the way.
A mother called for help breastfeeding her healthy, term, one-week old baby. She was speaking quickly, giving me all the details quickly, as if there was a deadline on our conversation. She sounded miserable, worried that she was “doing it right.” She was feeding her baby on the precise schedule that the lactation consultant in.. read more →
Babies are us.
While searching to find a reference for picking a baby up within 10 seconds of beginning to cry as a way to stop the crying, I found this sentence from a popular website: “Many babies cannot fall asleep without crying, and will go to sleep more quickly if left to cry for a while.” http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/crying-colic/pages/Responding-to-Your-Babys-Cries.aspx .. read more →
