UVA Breastfeeding Medicine Program

11/05/2025

Struggling with impulse buys at the grocery store? Try these 6 tips for heart-healthy shopping.

11/03/2025

Postpartum psychosis is a psychiatric emergency and often requires hospitalization. Left untreated, it can cause women to kill themselves or their babies.

Although experts consider postpartum psychosis to be one of the most easily identified mental illnesses among women, it's not recognized in two key resources used for medical treatment and billing. An international panel of leading women's mental health experts, including UVA Health's Jennifer Payne, MD, wants to change that.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4nuTUFv

11/02/2025

11/01/2025

10/31/2025

Angie Collins, RT(R)(M), is celebrating her 35th anniversary working at UVA Health — 31 one of them as a mammography technologist for the Breast Care Center. Angie worked during her pregnancy in the 1990s.

Now that baby, Kelsie Shifflett, RT(R)(M)(BS), is working at the Breast Care Center while pregnant with her first child, Reese – just like her mother did with her!

💕 Read Angie and Kelsie's full Connect feature at https://bit.ly/4hIfPrO

10/31/2025

No one sends you a warning for perimenopause — one day your body just decides it’s time for a plot twist. 🙃

Your cycle skips a beat. Nights heat up. Sleep goes on strike. Moods take a joyride. And your brain? Foggy, with a chance of tears.

It’s not you losing control — it’s your hormones changing. And it’s completely normal.

The good news? You’re far from alone. UVA Health’s midlife experts understand every twist in the story and are here to help you navigate this next chapter with care and confidence. 🧡

📍 Learn more about how to manage perimenopause with UVA Health: https://bit.ly/48WCVbM

10/30/2025

Justine was just 35 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The treatment was "really, really hard," but she was grateful for her supportive care team at UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center.

10/30/2025

10/29/2025

Live in southwest Virginia? The Southwest Virginia Cancer Advisory Board, led by UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, is seeking input from local cancer survivors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and others passionate about improving cancer outcomes.

📣 Find out how you can help: https://bit.ly/4oGm0P1

10/27/2025

More than 11 million people around the world are living with Parkinson’s disease, and the condition is the fastest growing age-related neurological disease. Parkinson’s causes tremor – uncontrollable shaking – as well as stiffness, slowness and difficulty moving. Despite decades of research, no way has been found to stop this nerve degeneration.

This week, a New Drug Application (NDA) has been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first novel treatment for Parkinson’s disease in more than half a century. Tavapadon's potential as a new treatment for Parkinson’s and other disorders was pioneered by School of Medicine at the University of Virginia Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience Richard B. Mailman, PhD.

💊 Learn more at https://bit.ly/4ojbA8A

10/25/2025

Girls, check your girls. 🎀💗

It’s easy to get caught up in everything else going on — but taking a few minutes each month to check in with yourself can make a real difference.

A self-check doesn’t have to be complicated. Once a month, around the same time, take a quiet moment in front of a mirror or while you’re in the shower. Notice how things look and feel. Move your fingertips gently across your breast tissue and underarms. You’re simply getting familiar with what’s normal for you so that you can spot any changes over time.

If you ever notice something that feels new — maybe a small lump, a change in texture, or tenderness — don’t wait or overthink it. Reach out to your doctor or schedule a visit with our Breast Cancer Center in Charlottesville.

And if you’re due for your regular mammogram, let this be your reminder to book it today. A few minutes of awareness each month adds up to long-term peace of mind. 💭

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oFZnun

10/23/2025

At age 38, Megan learned she may be at high risk for breast cancer based on her family history. She turned to UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, where genetic counselor Martha Thomas helped her better understand her risk and develop a plan for regular screening. Now, Megan's confident that if she does develop cancer in her 40s, she'll catch it earlier, when it's easy to treat.

🔗 Learn more about our genetic counseling: https://bit.ly/4nnnlt8

04/07/2017

Enabling women to breastfeed is a public health intervention with wide-reaching global implications. Not only is breastfeeding a fundamentally important human behaviour that strengthens attachment and psychological outcomes, but the use of breastmilk substitutes – either exclusively or partially – h...

04/04/2017

ABM Clinical Protocol #3:
Supplementary Feedings in the Healthy
Term Breastfed Neonate, Revised 2017

11/28/2016

Breastfeeding Saves Mothers’ Lives, Too

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Breastfeeding as recommended — for a total of one year and exclusively for six months — could protect babies and their moms from premature death and serious diseases and save the U.S. more than $4.3 billion in health care and related costs, according to a new study published onlin...

11/21/2016

Scientists have long understood that mother's milk provides immune protection against some infectious agents through the transfer of antibodies, a process referred to as "passive immunity." A research team now shows that mother's milk also contributes to the development of the baby's own immune syst...

11/16/2016

Rules acknowledge that parents often fall asleep while feeding and suggest precautions.

09/17/2016

Byproducts of gut microbes in some 1-month–old babies trigger inflammation that is linked to later asthma development, researchers find.

09/03/2016

We just received a donation from baby Felix and his parents! Mom and dad donated 40 hands free pumping bras, 28 reusable nursing pads, samples of ni**le cream and 20 beautiful nursing/skin-to-skin holding covers. All brand-new. :-)

08/01/2016

World Breastfeeding Week

1 - 7 August 2016

World breastfeeding week

07/28/2016

CELEBRATE WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK 2016

Help To Bring A Breastfeeding License Plate To Virginia

Thank you for helping us to collect the 450 applications and paid checks to bring a breastfeeding license plate to Virginia! You will receive updates, suggestions for social media shares and new on Virginia groups supporting this cause in this e-newsletter.

07/27/2016

07/27/2016

Former UVA Pediatric Resident who received care in the UVA Breastfeeding Medicine clinic when we opened!