Karen Meade RN IBCLC LCCE

03/14/2025

Please follow me on my new professional page! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18eAVYzMUJ/

07/31/2024

TBH...with all due respect: this opinion is so effing wrong. 🤷🏼‍♀️ An IBCLC needs to do a full functional oral suck assessment then offer interventions. If dysfunction is found, suck training and body work is warranted. If those interventions don't resolve the feeding problems then a properly trained and well-experiened release provider needs to be added to the dyad's care team. And again, with all due respect...pediatricians with their 1 hour (if lucky) of breastfeeding education in medical school have no business making breastfeeding policies/recommendations. IBCLCs such as myself have at minimum 90 hours of lactation education to sit for our certification exam. Also, every five years we need 75 additional continuing education hours to recertify. So if you aren't currently meeting your infant feeding goals see me, not your pediatrician. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/breastfeeding/Pages/tongue-tie-in-babies-how-ankyloglossia-affects-breastfeeding.aspx?fbclid=IwY2xjawEWsXxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeiMdX_9w983Evl6BVwnvVEm3TzpD3aitLb7_vqASzFQfTLQ6ZuWHy4_Xw_aem_X-Ywwyjz7hZv4S6M7kfiAQ

05/16/2024

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05/01/2024

https://worklifelaw.org/news/celebrating-new-title-ix-regulations-millions-of-pregnant-and-parenting-students-gain-protections/

Celebrating New Title IX Regulations: Millions of Pregnant and Parenting Students Gain Protections April 19, 2024 PRESS RELEASE Millions of Pregnant and Parenting Students Gain Protections New Title IX Regulations Will Keep Pregnant and Parenting Students in School Today the U.S. Department of Educa...

04/30/2024

"The risk of death for an infant that falls asleep with someone on a sofa is up to 67 times higher than on a crib or bed."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-are-safer-ways-to-bed-share-with-a-baby/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3irJyqHrbT5LVHBacfFSjXS1VnvdaZ3rN5-Mpw9B-gx7VFe84LhidnpKY_aem_AeSW9LHRYCZtoWbrXEJYCSIq2Aa79UXj0_GXhYvywhHqnU7ANXj8L_vgEF-qQ0O6CGPSdcVn_1zUopLZuA-nSWQm

For some parents, bed-sharing is the only way their baby can sleep. Rather than talking to parents about how to do it safely, we try to pretend it doesn’t exist

03/06/2024

IBCLC Day celebrations are beginning TODAY in many parts of the world 🌍✨

ILCA is proud to celebrate all of the wonderful IBCLCs that help contribute to such an important cause, and you should be too! Spread the love and show us how you are celebrating the day by tagging ILCA and/or using in your social media posts!

Be sure to check out our IBCLC Day resource page for graphics, celebration ideas, and how to share your IBCLC story: https://ilca.org/ibclc-day-2024

03/06/2024

How has an IBCLC helped ypu?

01/30/2024

Latch and Learn Tuesday at 11 AM. Free group facilitated by an IBCLC/infant feeding specialist. Grab your body, baby, bottles, pumps et cetera and connect with other parents feeding their babies.

01/26/2024

https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/DHS_details.aspx?newsid=984

Yay for Medicaid-covered human donor milk!

Pittsburgh, PA - Medically vulnerable infants in Pennsylvania will have expanded access to potentially life-saving pasteurized donor human milk thanks to legislation recently passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Josh Shapiro.