Signs Lactation Consultants are Suffering from Burnout.
By Annette Leary, RN, BSN, IBCLC Are you too tired to go for a walk? Have a lack of desire to socialize with friends or family? Find yourself looking for joy and feeling under appreciated? With the increased need for lactation support in various settings, lactation...
What is Measured Matters and What Matters Should be Measured; Accurately and Comprehensively
By Erin L.O'Reilly, RN, MSNR, IBCLC Potent public health indicators and issues are usually monitored through accurate assessment and documentation. Take smoking for example—whenever you go to the doctor: if you smoke, when you started smoking, how much you smoke and...
Tube Feeding to Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding
By Lillian Gray Scott, M.S., CCC-SLP, IBCLC Some infants begin their lives in medical situations that require supplemental tube feeding to support necessary growth. These tubes can originate from the mouth or nose and travel to the stomach, or can be surgically placed...
Milk Banking in the Muslim World
By Dr. Shereen Abdelghani Soliman Based upon the WHO and UNICEF recommendations, breastfeeding/chestfeeding should be initiated immediately after delivery and be the exclusive form of nourishment for the first 6 months of life – meaning no other foods or liquids are...
Breastfeeding & Neurodevelopment in extremely preterm infants
By Joan Randle, MSHS, BSN, IBCLC Learning how to breastfeed a newborn is hard! Even under the best of circumstances adjusting to the arrival of a newborn and learning to breastfeed/chestfeed can be incredibly difficult. Even more difficult can be preterm births,...
Trauma Informed Care and Lactation
By Jennie Toland, BSN, RN, CLC Let’s start with a simple exercise by holding five fingers up. Now, if any of the following sentences resonant with you regardless of how minor it may be, please put a finger down. Put a finger down if you have ever been harassed. Put a...
Our Journey to Opening a Milk Bank Depot
By Shannon Lucas Nearly 30 years ago, the Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition was created with a simple mission: to decrease infant mortality. We began working with local families to meet their needs, expanding programs, and doing all we could to ensure every baby...
The Way Forward
By Christine Staricka, BS, IBCLC, RLC, CE, FILCA I see you. I know how hard you are working right now. The U.S. formula shortage/crisis/availability problem is rivaling the early pandemic days for the “most intense timeframe for lactation care providers” award. It’s...
Emotional Support as an IBCLC®
By Debra Brender, BS Nutrition, RN, IBCLC One evening I came home from a day working at the hospital and said to my husband, “I have the hardest job in the world,” to which he replied, “No, you don’t, think about coal miners.” Ok, so he has a point. However, when I...
Ashley and Emmet’s Breastfeeding Journey
By Ashley Weber, PhD, RN, RNC-NIC Last year the Journal of Human Lactation published a case study titled, “Realigning Expectations with Reality: A Case Study on Maternal Mental Health During a Difficult Breastfeeding Journey.” Below is the story of the “30 yr G1P1...
