Carmenta Breastfeeding

14/04/2026

🌟A summary of recent research into the long-term heath impact of breastfeeding - in the Spring issue of the ABM magazine🌟🌷

14/04/2026

🌟NEWS:🌟Investigation by First Food Nutrition shows many branded, children’s vitamin D products do not contain enough vitamin D - Pharmacies’ own products tend to be better than branded products🌟

13/04/2026

A lovely review. Thankyou 💕
This is an example that shows a detailed tongue function assessment is needed if there are continuing feeding difficulties 🌟

We used Julie’s services for our eldest daughter when she was 6 weeks old. She had dropped two centiles in weight since birth. She was tongue tied and we went ahead with the separation and after a period of challenging feeding we went on to have a wonderful breastfeeding relationship up to 18 months. When my son was born I knew straight away that he was tongue tied but the paediatrician at the hospital and three separate midwives told me he wasn’t as he was feeding. From my experience with my daughter I knew this wasn’t right and made an appointment with Julie. I was relieved when she confirmed he was tongue tied and even more so when his 10 day check showed he only put on an ounce in the previous 5 days. In the next 5 days he went from strength to strength - the pain feeding was almost gone entirely and he put on 9oz in the next 5 days! Julie was understanding, reassuring and supportive with both of my children and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her to others.

10/04/2026

08/04/2026

Questions about vitamin D for yourself or your baby?👇👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/share/1E6piE3H95/?mibextid=wwXIfr

There are often lots of questions around Vitamin D and breastfeeding. Our article covers current guidelines and research.

https://www.laleche.org.uk/breastfeeding-and-vitamin-d

[Image: mother breastfeeding her baby on a wall in a park on a sunny day. Baby is wrapped in a green crocheted blanket. Text: Breastfeeding and Vitamin D – what do I need to know?]

07/04/2026

31/03/2026

Healthy eating during pregnancy and breastfeeding is important for Mums too 🌟

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25/03/2026

Beautiful illustration of the koala hold🐨

23/03/2026

This needs to be taken seriously…👇 👇

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A pivotal Lancet case report suggesting that codeine given to breastfeeding mothers could trigger opioid overdoses in babies is facing demands for investigation.

The 2006 report came under scrutiny after a member of the original research team wrote to the journal on 20 January 2026 alleging misconduct by the team’s leader.

The Lancet has now issued an expression of concern over the paper and requested an investigation by Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, widely known as SickKids, where the paper was written under the leadership of the pharmacologist Gideon Koren.

Koren’s work has come under intense focus in recent weeks after it emerged that a separate case report describing an overdose in another baby that appeared to support the Lancet paper’s hypothesis was entirely fictitious.2 That report was written by Koren in Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, but no mention was made of its fictitious nature and it was accepted as describing a real event.

Koren’s paper was part of a tsunami of corrections issued by the journal for a total of 138 case reports by various authors published over a 25 year period noting that each clinical vignette “describes a fictional case, created as a teaching tool.”

The 2006 Lancet article, which has been cited 822 times, described a case in which a 12 day old baby died from opioid overdose while his mother was taking codeine for postpartum pain

https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s498

No change in MHRA recommendations at present

19/03/2026

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13/03/2026

It’s where babies belong ….