Words to build confidence in milk supply.
When we teach, we have to use the language of our clients. Who ever uses the word colostrum as part of their everyday speech, aside from breastfeeding helpers and other healthcare professionals? .. read more →
Resurrecting breastfeeding: undoing old teaching by speeding through history.
Breastfeeding was recovered in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, after being lost to mainstream awareness for several generations. When some brilliant women observers and researchers of the 40s and 50s met up with each other, they inspired other women to want to birth naturally and to breastfeed. Organizations like the American Society for Prophylaxis in Obstetrics.. read more →
Baby Bodywork is part of healing after oral tie revisions
A mother brought her 9-week old breastfeeding baby for CST 8 weeks after an anterior tie was revised, and a month after the posterior tie was revised. Breastfeeding was still awful. Her baby enjoyed being at breast but the mother did not enjoy the nipple damage and pain that persisted, despite the revisions. Nursing on.. read more →
Hold your baby. . . instead of restraining it.
Babies are meant to be carried, which gives them the physical stimulation they need to continue the vestibular, musculo-skeletal and nervous system maturation that started inside, while they were gestating. Babies are very active in utero, as any pregnant woman can tell you. In the 21st century US, it is customary for babies to be.. read more →
Teen breastfeeding and future careers.
In the 1990s, I worked as the lactation consultant in a grant-funded program serving low-income mothers in West Philadelphia; in 6 years I worked with at least 600 dyads. Findings were published as “Observations Based Upon Multiple Telephone Contacts with New Breastfeeding Mothers” in the Journal of Human Lactation, June 1997 13: 147-150. During that time,.. read more →
Symptoms are guides to healing.
A year after her laparascopic hysterectomy, Eve sought craniosacral therapy for relief from persistent debilitating pain, even though her surgeon pronounced her healed. The surgeon had referred her to a pain center, and, when that pain center did not help, hinted that perhaps her pain wasn’t real, that it was all “in her head.” As.. read more →
