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� IBCLC serving Southwest Kansas and Northwest Oklahoma

11/18/2025

My new little mouth puppet and demo doll came in! Any ideas on what I should name them??!

11/14/2025

Honored to have been name the DAISY award honoree! I am thankful to work with many wonderful nurses who lift up one another and continue to strive to do the best for the families in our care.

Working in healthcare is rewarding, but also comes with heaviness and consistent challenges, especially in rural settings.

I return to work on Monday and this was a beautiful reminder of what a joy it is to get care for mothers and babies. 🌻

11/11/2025

Originally, just two lots of ByHeart were recalled following infants being hospitalized with botulism. Today, ByHeart has issued a voluntary recall of ALL their formula due to more cases of botulism. Stop using ByHeart formula immediately. Wash all surfaces the formula came into contact with.

Per the CDC: If you have leftover powdered formula that your infant was fed, keep it stored for at least a month. If your infant develops symptoms of infant botulism, your state health department may want to collect it for testing. If no symptoms appear after a month, throw the formula away.

11/08/2025

Thank you, for having us this morning! It’s always so fun to see all the familiar faces in the community and connect with other businesses and organizations. AHC is where I started my healthcare career as a CNA when I was just 19. Life looks a lot different now and my interests and passions have certainly shifted from enjoying the thrill of emergencies and trauma to maternal health, babies, and breastfeeding. But AHC and the people there will always hold a special place in my heart.

11/05/2025

You don’t need to watch the clock in ensure your baby is feeding. Watch your baby. Look and listen for swallows. If they are actively sucking and swallowing, leave them be. If they are slowing down and falling asleep, do some breast compressions and then switch sides. If you’re having marathon long nursing sessions all day every day or your baby is struggling to gain weight, get some help from a lactation consultant!

11/03/2025

If the Dr. Brown’s vent system works for you and your baby, awesome. But if you’re tired of washing all the pieces and the vent system is any color but blue, take it out and see how your baby does without it.

10/31/2025

👻👻 in a fun turn of events, MY baby has decided milk from the tap is way cooler than taking a bottle. 🙃 I return to work in two weeks. We introduced bottles around 3 weeks old and have given a bottle about once or twice a week, but got lax on doing that for the last few weeks. My husband tried giving her one the last few evenings and that has resulted in tears from her.

Some things we will be doing to overcome this - cause she HAS to be comfortable taking a bottle.

1. Offering times of playing with and encouraging sucking just the bottle ni**le without milk in it. No pressure. Keeping it fun and light.
2. Dipping the bottle ni**le into expressed milk and letting her suck on that again without pressure of milk coming out.
3. Finally trying to feed her with milk in the bottle when she’s not super hungry. A crying, dysregulated baby isn’t going to do something she isn’t preferring to do. So we will offer when she’s calm and try various positions like facing away and side lying.
4. Also going to try a Dr. Browns narrow bottle. She will use a pacifier of that shape, so just going to see if that helps her to be more comfortable with the bottle.

😅 will report back and let you know how it goes.

10/30/2025

Love to have a pump that runs on batteries. I have an hour commute to work one way so I’m often pumping in my car before going into work. The battery and portability is necessary for me! But I certainly notice first hand how the suction strength diminishes (mostly notice it with the mobile in bra pumps). Being prepared with charging cords at work, having a back up wall pump, and/or a hand pump can be nice just in case the pumps battery life isn’t where you need it to be.

10/22/2025

A quick tutorial on how to turn many feet of fabric into a way to carry your baby.

10/19/2025

✨ Parallel Pumping

I recommend parallel pumping fairly frequently. For one, when used once or twice a day, it’s an easy way to store up extra milk for the freezer in preparation for returning to work. If baby is regularly taking both sides in a nursing session, I recommend letting baby nurse on the first side like normal and then once baby has switched sides, apply the pump to the opposite side. This way, the easily accessible, faster flow milk is there for baby and not “stolen” by the pump.

This is also a great when used for babies who are having a bit of a difficult time transferring at breast and need supplementation after feeds. The pump will help trigger let downs, which will keep baby at breast longer with better intake. Then, the pumped milk can be used to supplement with. In this case, you would nurse baby on the first side and use the pump on the opposite side right away.

Have you heard of parallel pumping before?

08/01/2025

Today marks the start of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month!

I have been blessed to have breastfed all three of my babies and soon my fourth! Breastfeeding them to two years wouldn’t have been possible without the strong support systems in my life. Support from my husband and family, easy access to accurate education about breastfeeding in my own language, support in my work place to take the time to pump, access to a high quality pump when I was away from my babies. All of these supports made it possible to keep feeding my babies.

Unfortunately, I see all the time how systems make it very difficult for women to continue breastfeeding their babies. Early return to work, poor access to high quality pumps, no family support, lack of educational materials in a primary language - there are many barriers for a lot of families.

Systems and laws that enable women the time to be with their babies and establish breastfeeding, that enable ease of access to affordable lactation education and support is important for both the mental and physical health of families.

I am thankful I get to do the work of helping women learn to feed their babies. And I hope to see a time where breastfeeding support is the norm around every corner and in every sector.

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