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14/05/2025

Formula milk marketing exploits parental anxieties about common infant behaviours such as fussiness or poor sleep.

Premium branding is paraded as having “premium benefits”, when in fact the only difference is the price.

Claims made by the formula milk industry about their products are often misleading, scientifically unsubstantiated & violate the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

WHO is calling on governments to end exploitative marketing and protect babies’ health.

05/05/2025

05/04/2025

Be creative! 💙💙

It’s not your position that matters… it’s the baby’s!

You can breastfeed sitting, standing, laying down, or even upside down (okay, not recommending it—but hey, it’s technically possible).

What really matters is how your baby is positioned in relation to your breast:
• Baby’s head and body should be in a straight line (ear, shoulder, hip aligned)
• Tummy facing your body (no twisting)
• Nose touching your ni**le, so they can tilt their head back and latch deeply

Side-lying is one of my favorite positions to recommend. It’s great for rest, recovery, and those marathon cluster feeds. Just lie on your side with baby facing you, belly to belly. Or with the baby sitting upright latched to the top breast!! Pillows behind your back, maybe a snack nearby? Heaven.

Let your body rest—and let your baby feast!

01/01/2025

A great listen if you are breastfeeding, if you have been challenged by oral restrictions, if you are curious about the ways weaning can be impacted by parenting experiences, enjoy!

The Healthy Mum's Podcast · Episode

30/11/2024

Great to see this research published in a peer reviewed journal! Congratulations and thank you to authors Lisa A. Anders, PhD, RN, IBCLC, Jeanette Mesite Frem, MHS, IBCLC, RLC, CCE, and Thomas P. McCoy, PhD, PSta.

As many IBCLCs and pumping parents know, size matters when it comes to comfort and milk flow! Let us know if you'd like help finding your own perfect fit -- we have all the sizes, and some surprising shapes, to help you find more comfort and more milk (in less time!) for your own baby! Ring us up or shoot us a text.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08903344241296036?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3y4zq96ZF7UP9hdaVldnZ8DCgW39aMJEwFkax1K2dsG_eU0y1_Zag2rnQ_aem_mCL2qiwmGhLUnHdyfPrK2A

Background: Pumping is a common practice in the United States, but it can be uncomfortable and lead to concerns about milk supply. The fit of the fl**ge, or bre...

25/11/2024

"... Bogaert and de Steenhuijsen Piters found that when babies born by C-section are breastfed, the microbes they receive from breast milk seem to compensate for the lack of microbes from other initial sources."

https://time.com/6261473/c-section-babies-breastfeeding-microbes/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR02HY7fSLFa0vTu7EwZPiOopYevU-N_oqg8yH5pEk5wfz0Dfq_e95eYdV8_aem_W-4redy31UcMH_rPjZBPXg

A little help from mom can help babies delivered via C-section make up for the critical bacterial exposure they miss at birth

07/10/2024

Human reproduction is commonly portrayed as a gigantic marathon swimming event in which the fastest, fittest s***m wins the race and prize of fertilising the egg. Yet another male dominated fantasy about the creation of life. The notion that human s***m once ej******ed, begin a frantic race to reach the egg has completely overshadowed the real story of reproduction.

A 2020 study revealed that in fact there is a communication system between the EGG and s***m. The egg has the ability to repel certain s***m with a molecular mechanism causing them to swim slower and also attract certain s***m by releasing a chemoattractant helping them move faster. Cervical mucus call L- Mucus helps filter out any low quality s***m, Bye Boy!

In the study Fitzpatrick is quoted "Follicular fluid from one female was better at attracting s***m from one male, while follicular fluid from another female was better at attracting s***m from a different male…. This shows that interactions between human eggs and s***m depend on the specific identity of the women and men involved."

Once SHE makes her choice and the s***m begins to pe*****te the egg, the egg then releases a chemical response that causes all of the other s***m's heads to pop off. Yep, mass decapitation. ⠀

And to keep things in perspective, the male s***m is the smallest cell in the human body while the female egg is the largest, who run the world?

📄:Fitzpatrick, J. L. et al 2020 chemical signals from eggs facilitate cryptic female choice in humans Proc. R. Soc.

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*Due to multiple messages I’ve received I feel the need to share that this is a process of the egg discerning for genetic compatibility and NOT a conscious process! 🙄

02/10/2024

Have you mastered this position? What helped you get it right? It's a life saver for so many!
***Created by The Beyond Sleep Training Project

30/08/2024

17/08/2024

If we do not fight these changes they will happen. We have nothing to lose by objecting and everything to gain if we are able to make a difference. Please sign the petition!