Lactation Solutions of Northern Arizona LLC

01/20/2022

Join in for a discussion on tips for the first weeks of breastfeeding!

https://peanut.app.link/qIX9FHmWVmb

Join Lactation Network IBCLC Anna Singleton as we discuss tips for the first weeks of breastfeeding. Bring your breastfeeding questions!

05/04/2021

It's been awhile since I have updated this page, but wanted to let everyone know I am currently doing in-home and Telehealth consults. I can now see people with BCBS, CIGNA, and some United PPO plans. Please visit my website to see if your insurance covers lactation consults! www.lactationsolutionsnaz.com

Lactation Solutions of Northern Arizona LLC is helping women in their breastfeeding journey through lactation care.

12/04/2019

I have not been on facebook the past couple of years, but I wanted to share something near and dear to my heart. Last year I traveled to Northern Iraq to help create a breastfeeding support program for women and babies living in a refugee camp. There are many reasons why this work is so important, but the biggest one being that families simply do not have the resources to purchase formula and families are left in dire circumstances when formula distribution ends due to funding cuts with aid organizations. The community health workers (CHW) I trained, four women total, provide weekly prenatal and postpartum breastfeeding classes as well as individual tent visits. I just returned from my second trip to Iraq, and the program has had wonderful success over the past 13 months. Our funding is set to run out at the end of January. I know money is tight at Christmas time, but please consider donating so that this work can continue. 100% of the money donated goes towards the CHWs salaries, and to providing food packs to women who attend our classes. Please feel free to share this post and information!

Anna Singleton Iraq Breastfeeding Support Program Breastfeeding Support Program in Khanke Refugee CampBirthed out of the desire to provide women with the educ

01/02/2019

So many women experience this - https://nyti.ms/2GQcHw1?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Many employers don’t provide workers with time and space to express breast milk. Millions of families are affected — and often, it’s a violation of federal law.

08/05/2018

This is so great!

The U.S. Air Force has given new mothers approval to wear a special breastfeeding T-shirt under their uniforms.

07/09/2018

The United States’ opposition to the WHA breastfeeding resolution is appalling. And it is also in line with decades of US policies that have prioritized corporate profit over public health.

07/08/2018

This is the result of greed; we can and should do better than this. Please read the full article.

“‘What happened was tantamount to blackmail, with the U.S. holding the world hostage and trying to overturn nearly 40 years of consensus on best way to protect infant and young child health,’ she said.

A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.

Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.

Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.

A 2016 Lancet study00210-5/fulltext) found that universal breast-feeding would prevent 800,000 child deaths a year across the globe and yield $300 billion in savings from reduced health care costs and improved economic outcomes for those reared on breast milk.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html

Trade sanctions. Withdrawal of military aid. The Trump administration used both to try to block a measure that was considered uncontroversial and embraced by countries around the world.

06/29/2018

Some 500 children have been separated from their parents in the past month under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy to refer anyone caught crossing the border illegally for federal prosecution, according to count by a federal public defender in Texas.

06/20/2018

Joint Position on Separation of Parents and Children from IBLCE, ILCA, and LEAARC:

https://lactationmatters.org/2018/06/20/joint-position-on-separation-of-parents-and-children-form-iblce-ilca-and-leaarc/

The International Lactation Consultant Association® (ILCA®), the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®), and the Lactation Education Accreditation and Approval Review Committee (LEAARC) stand together in opposition to policies that unnecessarily separate a parent from th...

06/17/2018

This. Must. Stop.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2018/06/13/mom-says-baby-taken-breastfed-texas-immigration-detention-center?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Dallas News: your source for breaking news and analysis for Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and around the world. Read it here, first.

06/16/2018

So helpful!

04/19/2018

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The campaign ads represent one way that women are increasingly willing to break the mold of the standard candidate, in a year with record numbers of women running for office.

03/01/2018

This is really amazing.

I grew up on the streets. We were dirt poor and after my dad went to prision, it got even worse. When we did live in a house, it was in the projects, and when we didn’t? We were homeless, eating out of dumpsters or sleeping in shelters.
And do you know what you never see in those places? On the streets? Or in DV shelters?
Women breastfeeding.
Then we got a new dad and all of that changed. He was our Papa until the day he got arrested for Pe******ia. Trust me, I know its heavy to hear and even easier to ignore —predators and children— but it’s my truth.
And do you know what I learned all those years? I learned that my body wasn’t really mine— its true purpose? To remain attractive for men. But wait, isn’t that what society teaches us too? This engrained generational belief- that women are here for the pleasure and servitude of man-so that the female body is then universally seen as purely sexual.
The remaining years of my childhood were spent in foster care. And you know what else you never see in foster homes?
Women breastfeeding.
I was the first, in my direct community, to change this. ‘Of course I’ll breastfeed,’ I’d think as I clicked on nursing covers in my registry, ‘but only because its whats best for my child.’ Then I had Lilly and all, of, that, changed.
Breastfeeding melted the shame I’ve carried with me simply because I was a girl. It gave me back the me I didn’t even realize I’d lost.
It was, the very first time I saw my body as my own.
See, what happened was that one day I had breasts and then the next day those very same breasts, produced milk.
The breasts I was taught were only for ‘him,’ now sustained ‘her’ life.
Revolutionarily.
Breastfeeding completely exploded the worlds pornographic view I carried of myself, and all women. Its like walking through life unable to smell but not knowing it, until you’re holding the most fragrant apricot colored rose.
And your mind explodes.
Everything changes.
Its because of that I don’t see a need to cover up.
Its because of that I have never been more proud to be a woman.
Its because of this, that I choose to normalize something that was not normal for me growing up. | 📸

02/15/2018

The CDC has updated it’s recommendations encouraging mothers to continue to breastfeed and provide breastmilk, even when diagnosed with the flu, due to the protective qualities of breastmilk. Thank you, CDC!

Mothers with flu should continue to provide breast milk to their infants.

02/11/2018

“The research indicates that cesarean deliveries and limited breast-feeding can distort the population of microorganisms in a baby’s gut and may explain the unchecked rise of worrisome health problems in children and adults, including asthma, allergies, celiac disease, Type 1 diabetes and obesity. These conditions, among others, are more likely to occur when an infant’s gut has been inadequately populated by health-promoting bacteria.”

Fewer scheduled cesarean deliveries and more breast-feeding could give babies more protective bacteria.

02/10/2018

Knowledge makes informed decisions- know the research!
“Breastmilk also contains lactoferrin, a component in breastmilk that actually kills strep mutans (the bacteria that causes tooth decay).”
https://kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/tooth-decay/

It's often said that breastfeeding (particularly while lying down at night) will cause tooth decay, just like letting a baby sleep with a bottle of milk can cause "baby bottle mouth." Essentially, a valid link has not been made between nursing (nighttime or otherwise) and cavities.

02/10/2018

So important to know!

Received last night in my Milk Meg messages:

"My doctor just told me, 'Well you can start feeding him less now that he is 12 months old. There is no nutritional benefit to him anymore'"...

A few problems with this statement:

1. Actually your milk continues to give your child nutritional benefits, immune building properties and anti-infect, anti-microbial, ant-viral components the ENTIRE time they breastfeed for. It doesn't just stop working because the child reaches a year old. Interestingly this will also be the doctor who in the next breath recommends daily intake of COW'S milk. Made for a growing baby calf. Oh the irony.

2. If you think that breastfeeding toddlers is only about nutritional benefits then you have no idea how much comfort breastfeeding brings them! Pain relief, comfort and reassurance.

3. Suggesting that a mother of a breastfeeding twelve month old just simply start to "cut out feeds" does not have an understanding of what that entails. It's not as easy as just dropping feeds. Breastfeeding 12 month olds often feed as frequently as a newborn if they are not busy and distracted...totally normal for this age.

For more on breastfeeding toddlers: https://themilkmeg.com/category/breastfeeding-toddlers/

01/27/2018

Truth.

https://www.simplemost.com/new-research-shows-theres-no-thing-holding-baby-much/

New research suggests that holding your baby as much as possible can help contribute to brain development. So feel free to cuddle as much as you want!