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Ask the CPST- of spit up, screaming babies, turning to forward facing, and tethering
Tweet This post features questions from readers for a CPST (Child Passenger Safety Technician) focusing on car seats and is made possible by the generous sponsorship of clek who have made their staff CPSTs available to The Leaky Boob community in order to answer your questions and help you keep your children safe. Dear […]
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Traumatic Birth: Resources for Healing and Protecting Breastfeeding
Tweet by Tanya Lieberman This post was made possible by the generous support of MotherLove Herbal Company. Having intrusive thoughts about your birth? Flashbacks? Feeling disconnected from your baby? Do you steer clear of hospitals, or try to avoid talking about your birth? Many women experience trauma related to childbirth, and estimates range from 18% to […]
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MiLK Conference Call for Speakers
Tweet Call for speakers MILK: An Infant Feeding Conference, 2015 Calling for submissions from clinicians, scholars, students, artists, mothers, fathers, researchers, and others familiar with infant feeding from clinical and social perspectives. Submissions of a wide variety are welcome, including research presentations, theoretical papers, academic papers, creative submissions including personal essays, social commentary, literature, […]
Introducing Boobles™- MOST Like Mom
Tweet by Jessica Martin-Weber You’ve seen it, the advertising of bottles and formula announcing how their product is somehow “like mom.” Or proclaiming that there are new developments that allows their product to be “more like the breast” while elsewhere on the packaging they say “breast is best.” It sounds amazing: new technology, new understanding, […]
Sugarbaby’s New Year’s Pro-Breastfeeding Tips and Resolutions for the New Year for the Breastfed Baby
Tweet by Jessica Martin-Weber with Sugarbaby It’s a new year, my 3rd new year to celebrate so I am old hat at ringing in the new year and making resolutions. My mommy says any time is a good time to decide to make changes but lots of people think there is something about the new […]
How to Wean Your Teenager
Tweet by Jessica Martin-Weber with Ophélia and Lavinia Martin-Weber It is a well known fact that if you don’t make sure you get a baby off the boob by the end of their first year or definitely by the time they are two, they will never, ever stop breastfeeding and you’ll have to go to […]
Leakie to Leakie: Real Stories from Real Moms
What I Want You To Know About Why My Son Can’t Eat- FPIES
Tweet By Carrie Saum Dickson This guest post shares the feeding journey of 16 month of Echo as told by his mother. A breastfeeding, pumping, allergy story of a little boy with a bright spirit and a mom and dad with steadfast hearts and commitment. Their story is beautiful, inspiring, challenging, humbling, educational, and so very […]
Feeding Echo, Part 2- Solids, Vomit, More Pumping, Donor Milk, and FPIES
This mom made huge sacrifices to get her son breastmilk when breastfeeding didn’t work out, then allergies and FPIES.
Feeding Echo, part 1- Breastfeeding Trauma, Exclusively Pumping, and FPIES
This mom planned on breastfeeding but a stroke and severe allergies called FPIES have changed everything for her son.
Why Black Breastfeeding Week Is Important To Me
Tweet by Carmen Castillo-Barrett I am an immigrant Dominican mother, with African American roots on my father’s side. My husband is of Caribbean decent. We got pregnant with our daughter in 2006. The almost 42-week pregnancy allowed my husband and I time to explore and talk to each other about parenting. We decided we were going […]
