Tag Archives: birth

Tongue and lip tie does impact breastfeeding!!!

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Joanna

Since I started as a Private Practice Lactation Consultant I would say 90% of the issues with breastfeeding have been because of tongue and lip tie.  I was really lucky to have worked alongside some wonderful Lactation Consultants in a … Continue reading →

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Love shapes your baby’s brain

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Joanna

It is a wonderful discovery when you find different disciplines coming together to produce a new understanding of emotional life.  The technically written information from Doctors, Researchers, Scientists and Academics often don’t reach the public forum where this information is … Continue reading →

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Mother Support

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Joanna

I had the pleasure of giving some breastfeeding education to a beautiful young woman yesterday.  No, she is not one of my daughters but precious all the same.  Tragically, her Mum passed away recently and I know that starting your … Continue reading →

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Calming Mothers to calm babies

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Joanna

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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Mothering Babies

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Joanna

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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