Dr. Pankhuri - IBCLC - Nagpur

23/10/2025

The 2025 Cochrane review on immediate and early skin-to-skin contact after birth highlights that further randomized controlled trials comparing skin-to-skin contact with ‘usual care’ are no longer ethical.

The findings show there is now enough evidence to make immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth the global standard of care, and as WHO already recommends skin-to-skin the standard of care, the authors argue that randomizing the separation of mother and newborn may no longer be justifiable.

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The 2025 Cochrane review on skin-to-skin contact after birth builds upon the well-established evidence for the safety and efficacy of skin-to-skin and provides insight into benefits that have been noted by practitioners, but not studied extensively prior to the previous Cochrane review.

27/06/2023

15/12/2022

I passed!!
I am Board Certified Lactation Consultant!!
I am an ibclc!!

It's been years in the making, and months of studying in preparation for this exam, then 12 weeks of anxiously waiting for results......

Now you can have even more confidence that when you work with me you are getting the highest quality of care to help you have a better breastfeeding experience.
I owe a huge thank you to my family specially my husband who helped me get here and my 9 year old who inspired this career path and was sweet enough to be there with me at the time of results because I was too nervous!!
Wouldn't have been possible without guidance of my mentors Effath Yasmin Zinal Unadkat Mahima Aghanashini Pandit Ramyaa Sankaranarayanan Sonali Shenoy Santhanam
P.C Richa Rughwani

18/11/2022

Breastfeeding tip!!
Did you know ?
Your baby will do cluster feeding in the evening specially....that's cos in the evening your milk has tryptophan...which their body converts into melatonin: the sleep hormone!
This leads to sleep stretches and a very good milk supply!!

Cluster feeding pays off!!💪🏻

Dm to book a session on breastfeeding basics!!

30/06/2022

New Guidelines*

*Breastfeeding and human milk are the normative standards for infant feeding and nutrition.
*Breastfeeding exclusively for about 6 months is an evidence-based recommendation.The AAP further states that-
Parents giving birth should be supported to breastfeed through early initiation of skin-to-skin contact and frequent breastfeeding, with skilled lactation support readily available in maternity care facilities.

Tag a mom- to -be to attend our prenatal breastfeeding class!!

26/02/2022

A study done by djuric in 2005 found higher levels of carotenoids and tocopherols in mothers who lactate for 6 months and more.
Carotenoids and tocopherol levels are thought to be protective against breast cancer.

11/01/2022

This mother had said...that "breastfeeding isn't made for me"....

28/12/2021

06/11/2021

Did you know that breast milk is made up directly from your blood and not from the food you eat!!!

To explain it simply, we will talk about the ALVEOLI, and the hormones PROLACTIN and OXYTOCIN.

You can see the ALVEOLI as a grapelike sac that take proteins, sugars, and fat from your blood supply to make breast milk. The ALVEOLI is inside your breasts.

The hormone PROLACTIN causes your alveoli to take nutrients (proteins, sugars) from your blood supply and turn them into breast milk.

While the OXYTOCIN hormone causes the cells around the alveoli to contract and eject your milk down the milk ducts. This passing of the milk down the ducts is called the "let-down" (milk ejection) reflex.

So ideally, if you even starve yourself, you will still produce breastmilk. Amazing right?

06/08/2021

I met mommy Manya...just before the first lockdown...she was residing in China...she had been to her mom's place for her delivery...and I felt that the beautiful baby inside her saved her from covid and getting delivered in China...
Breastfeeding was taking a toll on her and she reached out to me...nd the rest is history😊👍❤️🥳

P.s. she's back in China and is safe and happily breastfeeding even after the China norms for covid vaccine not being breastfeeding friendly !!!

05/08/2021

I always say breastfeeding is 90 percent a mother's determination...
Ms Richa tells us about her journey of determination...to breastfeed her baby!