Help Breastfeeding

02/27/2021

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Whether starting or stopping, breastfeeding is an emotional and physical journey full of highs and lows that many new moms are unprepared for. We're lifting ...

08/09/2020

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03/22/2020

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Current Recommendations at a Glance (updated 21 March 2020) See below for all the in-depth information & references… There is currently no clinical evidence to suggest that the virus can be transmitted through breastmilk. To date, the virus has not been found in samples of amniotic fluid or breast...

11/01/2019

11/01/2019

Jack-o-lantern 🎃 cervical dilation chart! Photo credit unknown. Found at on Instagram.

08/02/2019

Well it is world breastfeeding week. And it is time to normalize breastfeeding. I debated on sharing simply because as a mom and getting closer to thirty im not confident in this body buuuut then i thought about my perfect little girl and i never want her to feel any less than the goddess she is so I will learn to show love to this body. This body has grown three entire humans and then sustained those same humans with my own milk. I have proudly spent 6 years and counting making milk and that is just dang impressive. Ladies our mom bodies are amazing. We can do incredible things!

Thanks to the superwoman and momma at blissfulwomb.com who put on such an inspirational photo shoot and climbing celery fields all the while being 9 months along herself!

Blissful Womb LLC - Sarasota Doula and Birth Photographer

08/01/2019

It's World Breastfeeding Week!

Tell us - what are you doing where you are to celebrate?

06/11/2019

I’ve seen reports of three incidents of breastfeeding harassment at public swimming pools in just the last week. It’s hot. Kids are on summer break. Lots of children have younger siblings, and going to the local pool is everyone’s favorite activity. So you *might* see a parent holding a baby while watching the other children playing in the pool. And they might be nursing the baby. Don’t be alarmed! Babies get hungry and thirsty and breastmilk satisfies both cravings! Breastmilk is not harmful to other people in the pool. The parent probably needs to be within arm’s reach of a toddler. Humid locker rooms are not a good place to nurse a baby. There is no need or reason for anyone, patron or employee, to say anything to a parent breastfeeding their child in or at the pool. It easy to protect yourself from seeing this - avert your eyes or stay at home this summer. Thanks!

05/04/2019

Riiiiiight in your baby's face. Every time. Raise your hand if you've ever actually sprayed all the way across the room.

The Badass Breastfeeder

01/20/2018

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01/19/2018

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommendation that mothers with influenza be separated from their babies and not breastfeed makes no sense.

Mothers with influenza should continue to breastfeed. Here is why:

Influenza is infectious, as are most viral infections, BEFORE the person even realizes they are sick. The incubation period of influenza is said to be 1 to 4 days. Therefore, a person can be infectious 1 to 4 days before even realizing they have been infected. Breastfeeding mothers and babies share their environment and thus, wherever the mother picked up the infection, it is also likely the baby did as well.

Furthermore, just because you develop a fever, or cough, does not automatically mean you have influenza since winter is the season of many viral upper respiratory infections which are not always easy to distinguish one from another. Furthermore, not all people will rush down to get tested for influenza with the first time they cough and so the diagnosis will be delayed in most people once they do realize they are sick.

To separate a mother from her baby and ban breastfeeding has serious possible consequences. For babies as well as for toddlers, being refused the breast can be very emotionally traumatic, without necessarily preventing the illness in the baby/toddler, who might already have been infected. Furthermore, the stress of separation may actually increase the risk of illness in the infant/toddler. Not being able to breastfeed is likewise traumatic for the mother and may mean that at the time she is ill, engorgement increases her suffering and the task of having to maintain her supply and diminished milk supply from not breastfeeding.

Has the CDC forgotten the immunological protection that breastfeeding provides for the breastfeeding baby/toddler? Why is influenza different from most other infections? It's not. In fact, it is well known that babies who are breastfed remain healthy even when the mother falls ill with an infectious illness and if they do get sick, breastfeeding helps them get better faster. No other organization, including the WHO, has ever included influenza in the list of illness requiring stopping breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding mothers who have contracted influenza should get appropriate treatment and continue breastfeeding. In case their treatment includes antiviral medications such as oseltamivir (Tamiflu) or others, they are not a contraindication to breastfeeding.

Not only does the recommendation not make sense for protecting the baby from the infection, but as the family is living together, they almost always have been exposed and infected with the influenza virus. So who will be designated to take care of this baby?

Additionally, “interrupting” breastfeeding is term that takes for granted that it is simple to stop breastfeeding and subsequently to resume which is not the case.

Read more about how breastfeeding protects babies when a mother is sick: https://ibconline.ca/maternal-illness1/