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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Breastfeeding – a medical mystery????
How can Doctors know how to help a Mother with breastfeeding issues when they only briefly touch on the topic during their training? Perhaps we should be asking how this is possible when so much disease can be prevented by … Continue reading
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Tagged babies, baby, baby help, breastfeeding, doctors, motherhood, paediatricians, parents
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Lactation Consultants do what?
Ever wondered what a Lactation Consultant (LC) does? This is my official title and my qualification is International Board Certified Lactation Consultant or IBCLC. Every year the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) hold an exam all around the … Continue reading
Calming Mothers to calm babies
One thing that struck me throughout my nursing career was that looking after a sick baby meant looking after very very anxious parents. Understandably, when a tiny baby is unwell and then ends up in hospital, the parents are thrown … Continue reading
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Tagged babies, baby help, birth, calm, children, fathers, jm lactation services, joanna molloy, mothers, newborn, parents, pregnancy, relax, skin to skin
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Mothering Babies
I sometimes try to imagine what it feels like to be a newborn, exhausted from the effort of birth, awakening to a strange world. He would leave the warmth of his Mother’s body and enter a lottery of possible new … Continue reading
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Tagged babies, baby help, birth, children, fathers, jm lactation services, joanna molloy, mothers, newborn, parents, pregnancy, skin to skin
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