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.
Breastfeeding, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, and Oral Phase Dysphagia
Breastfeeding and Oral Phase Dysphagia, a neurologically-based lack of coordination of the chewing and swallowing mechanisms, and Sensory Processing Disorder.
Hyperemesis Gravidarum and Ondansetron: a critical response to media coverage
Did you hear that taking Zofran for extreme nausea and vomiting (or HG, hyperemesis gravidarum) in pregnancy could cause birth defects? That’s what one widely circulated report says from the Toronto Star. But how well researched was the journalism? An academic librarian takes a critical look at the Toronto Star’s piece on the dangers of Zofran/ondansetron in pregnancy and the risk of birth defects.
Traumatic Birth: Resources for Healing and Protecting Breastfeeding
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…
Nurture the Nurturer: A Multi-Sensory Approach
Use this Mother’s Day as a starting point for a new sense of self-nourishment rather than an isolated day in which nurturing the nurturer is allowed. Go out into the world ready to see it in new ways that go beyond what your eyes typically take in. Listen to it. Smell it. Taste it. Feel it in your bones. Your will feel more alive, and so will your children. They are learning from your actions so much more than they are from your words. Teach them well.
Guest Post from Suzanne of The Fearless Formula Feeder- Mean People Suck.
But bloggers like the Alpha person are not complicated. They are simple. They are mean. And mean people suck. They suck the life out of images like this; make them fodder for a contrived mommy war. They suck the life out of breastfeeding advocacy efforts, because they perpetuate the myth of the “breastapo” by becoming a caricature of that concept. They suck the joy out of parenting, by making it a competition. They suck the intelligence and nuance out of what could be a productive debate between people who genuinely care about maternal and child health. And they suck the energy out of bloggers like Jessica and myself, who resent that we feel forced into a corner and made to confront this type of bottom-feeding behavior, when we could be focusing our collective efforts on something more productive.
