Trauma-Informed Lactation Care
Trauma Informed Lactation Care By: Beckie Walker MSN, CNM, IBCLC What is trauma? Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event. Trauma isn’t always trauma with a capital T like a natural disaster, a mass shooting, or war violence; although those are very real,...
Uplifting Black Voices: Jasmine Creighton on the Importance of Community Connections
Uplifting Black Voices: Jasmine Creighton on the Importance of Community Connections By: Jasmine Creighton, CLS, Perinatal Health Specialist, Doula This month marks the one-year weaning anniversary of my second child, and I am met with bittersweet emotions, mostly...
Top Nutrition Questions from Breastfeeding & Pumping Parents
Top Nutrition Questions from Breastfeeding & Pumping Parents By Grace Goodwin Dwyer, MS, MA, RD, LDN, IBCLC As a Registered Dietitian who also works as an IBCLC, I get so many questions about how what we eat affects lactation – and vice versa! Most parents are...