The following piece discusses infant loss and may be triggering for some. ---- By Hope Logghe, IBCLCOctober 15, 2021 October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month when we remember all the families who are grieving after facing the most unimaginable losses-...
By Naomi Bromberg Bar-Yam ACSW Ph.D.September 28, 2021 September is NICU Awareness Month when we educate about and honor those who care for babies born too early - before 9 months - or who are ill and require specialized hospital care from birth. How these fragile...
By Chloe McElmurySeptember 16, 2021 September is Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month. Thyroid Cancer develops in the tiny but mighty thyroid, a gland located on the front of your neck, underneath your larynx (Adam’s Apple). The thyroid is shaped like a butterfly, with two...
By Lisa R. Miller, MA, IBCLCSeptember 8, 2021 I think we can all agree that postpartum depression (PPD) is a thief, too often stealing the joys of parenthood. When it occurs, it negatively affects entire families and, unfortunately, goes undiagnosed and untreated in...
By Nekisha Killings, MPH, IBCLCAugust 30, 2021 Black Breastfeeding Week each year is a time to look back and a time to look ahead. Many of us use the week to reflect on the ways that we have supported Black parents and families on their nursing journeys over the past...
To-wen Tseng, MS When my son Jade was six month old, I quit my job as a full time reporter and became a breastfeeding activist. Of course I still work as a freelance writer to pay my bills, but I spent a big chunk of my time on volunteering for local breastfeeding...
Join USLCA's Dominique Gallo as she talks with Diana Gates of the Nottoway Tribe and Jasmine Anderson of the Pamunkey and Ojibwe Tribes in a unique video blog interview about their breastfeeding stories, an introspective Indigenous perspective. <---...
Candice Ward, IBCLC, CLC, CHW, Full Spectrum Doula Happy World Breastfeeding Week! The 2021 global breastfeeding theme is Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility. The timing of this topic is appropriate after the worldwide experience that has reshaped many of...
Danielle Harmon, MPH “I don’t have time for that!” It’s a phrase we all have used at one time or another. Often times what we are indirectly communicating, “that’s not a priority for me,” or, “I’m choosing NOT to devote the time to this.” Time is a precious...
Stephanie Wagner, BSN, RN, CLE, IBCLC, RLC June is my favorite month of the year! Why, you ask?! Because June is PRIDE month for the LGBTQ+ community, a community I am so proud to exist in! PRIDE, PRIDE, PRIDE, PRIDE, PRIDE, PRIDE, PRIDE! I have it, I live it, and in...