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- From Breast Milk to Brains: The Potential of Stem Cells in Human Milk
Category Archives: Breastfeeding Around the Globe
Traveling as a Pumping Mother
By Nicole Goodman One of the biggest challenges working mothers face is traveling away from their babies while they’re still breastfeeding. Pumping while on the road – or in the air – can be inconvenient, uncomfortable, and downright unpleasant, but … Continue reading
Posted in Breastfeeding Around the Globe
Tagged Airplane, Breast Pump, pumping, Security, Traveling, TSA
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Journey to Uganda: an IBCLC’s Perspective
By Pat Young, APN, IBCLC I’ve just returned from a trip to Uganda in East Africa. While there, I visited several hospitals – rural and city, public and private. First, let me say that the poverty is mind boggling. I … Continue reading
Posted in Breastfeeding Around the Globe, IBCLCs traveling the globe
Tagged BFHI, breastfeeding, IBCLC, Pat Young, Uganda
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A Closer Look at Cultural Issues Surrounding Breastfeeding
By Emma Pickett, IBCLC As lactation consultants, we’ve been reading about breastmilk for a long time. It makes a nice contrast from the science of oligosaccharides to learn about the importance of goat meat soup to a lactating mother in Somalia or … Continue reading
Posted in Breastfeeding Around the Globe, Clinical Practice, Cultural Issues
Tagged breastfeeding, Canada, colostrum, cultural issues, Emma Pickett, India, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, tahneek, Tanzania
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The 10th Step and Beyond: Mother Support for Breastfeeding
By Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA Mother support for breastfeeding has been my passion for more years that I care to admit, starting when Marian Tompson, La Leche League’s first president, provided me with the confidence and encouragement to reverse iatrogenic … Continue reading
World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding in Ireland
In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week, Lactation Matters will post every day this week, highlighting the stories of breastfeeding in different cultures and countries. By Geraldine Cahill, IBCLC The promotion of breastfeeding has been a key government health policy in Ireland … Continue reading
Care for a Virtual Cuppa? Australia’s first Online Breastfeeding Café launched.
Written by Maddy Knight The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) has welcomed the newest addition to its stable of services for breastfeeding families, the Online Breastfeeding Café(OBC). With so many blogs on the web about breastfeeding (ILCA’s Lactation Matters recently referred to BlogHer’s … Continue reading
The Best and Worst Places in the Industrialized World for Breastfeeding Support
Editor’s Note: While Lactation Matters typically publishes original material, occasionally we encounter a blog post that we feel especially deserves to be read by all IBCLCs and breastfeeding supporters. This is just such a post. It was originally published by … Continue reading
We need your INTERNATIONAL perspective!
Written by Amber McCann, IBCLC In my few short weeks as the new co-editor of Lactation Matters, I have skidded right smack dab into a wall…the wall of realization that my perspective on our profession is overwhelmingly American. Of course, … Continue reading
Does Breastmilk Neutralize HIV?
Written by Diana Cassar-Uhl, IBCLC As an IBCLC, I’m always thrilled when a new study comes out and affirms what I already know about human milk – that it’s amazing and we’re constantly learning something new about it. Last summer, … Continue reading
Posted in Breastfeeding Advocacy, Breastfeeding Around the Globe, Research
Tagged breastfeeding, Diana Cassar-Uhl, HIV/AIDS, research
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Mother to Mother Peer Support in Penang, Malaysia
Written by Debz Christiansen-Lee and Connie Mooi Penang, Malaysia is hoping to shake things up! At the end of 2007, a group of mothers were encouraged, by a local Lactation Consultant, to take advantage of a free, three-day breastfeeding course, … Continue reading
Posted in Breastfeeding Around the Globe, IBCLCs around the globe
Tagged Malaysia, Penang
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