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Mother’s Intuition

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Joanna

I have been working for some time as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). Some of you may be very familiar with this terminology but for those of you who aren’t, I’d like to explain what it involves to … Continue reading →

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Nobody can know everything, right? Refer on, please!

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Joanna

I love seeing the reaction when a baby latches on properly for the first time and the Mother looks like a light bulb has gone on in her head. It’s a beautiful moment for her and you can also see … Continue reading →

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Difficult baby or difficult parents?

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Joanna

How often do you hear people asking “Is he a good baby?”  I wonder what they’d do if you replied “Sure he’s great –  it’s his parents who are difficult!”  Seriously, what are parents supposed to say?  You can’t describe … Continue reading →

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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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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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