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The New Baby Guide 2021 Edition (for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Newborn)
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Breastfeeding and COVID-19 Research and Resources
Updated June 19, 2020
Compiled by The Leaky Boob, theleakyboob.com, Facebook.com/TheLeakyBoob
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This resource list is an evolving work in progress. If you are aware of some resources or materials that should be included, please comment with the link.
Health Organizations Recommended Practices and Protocols:
Considerations for Inpatient Obstetric Healthcare Settings
- CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Evaluation and Management Considerations for Neonates At Risk for COVID-19 – Caring for Newborns
- CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
“…the risks and benefits of temporary separation of the mother from her baby should be discussed with the mother by the healthcare team, and decisions about temporary separation should be made in accordance with the mother’s wishes.”
Breastfeeding advice during the COVID-19 outbreak
- WHO (World Health Organization)
ABM STATEMENT ON CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19)
- ABM (Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine)
Pregnancy, childbirth and caring for newborns: Advice for mothers during COVID-19
- Public Health Agency of Canada
Clinical Management of COVID-19
- WHO (World Health Organization)
Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies, including COVID-19
- United States Breastfeeding Committee
Pregnancy, Birth, and Breastfeeding and COVID-19 Specific Resources:
SARS‐CoV‐2 and human milk: What is the evidence?
- Wiley Online Library
- Kimberly A. Lackey, Ryan M. Pace, Janet E. Williams, Lars Bode, Sharon M. Donovan, Kirsi M Järvinen, Antti E. Seppo, Daniel J. Raiten, Courtney L. Meehan, Mark A. McGuire, Michelle K. McGuire
New Studies Investigate How COVID-19 May Impact Breast Milk and Pregnancy
- University of California San Diego School of Medicine – Michelle Brubaker
- The Lancet
- Huijun Chen, PhD – Juanjuan Guo, MS – Chen Wang, PhD – Fan Luo, PhD – Xuechen Yu, MD – Prof Wei Zhang, PhD – Prof Jiafu Li, MS – Prof Dongchi Zhao, PhD – Dan Xu, MS – Qing Gong, MS – Jing Liao, PhD – Prof Huixia Yang, MD – Prof Wei Hou, PhD – Prof Yuanzhen Zhang, BS
Antibodies in Infants Born to Mothers With COVID-19 Pneumonia
- Jama Network
- Hui Zeng, MD – Chen Xu, BS – Junli Fan, MD – Yueting Tang, PhD – Qiaoling Deng, MD – Wei Zhang, MD, PhD – Xinghua Long, MD, PhD
- Bryna Sampey
Skin-to-Skin Care and COVID-19: downloadable file
- Wiley Online Library
- Riccardo Davanzo – Guide Moro – Fabrizio Sandri – Massimo Agosti – Corrado Moretti – Fabio Mosca
COVID-19, Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: What We Know Is Reassuring
- Helpful blog post with compilation of materials explained
Mother-Infant Contact and Breastfeeding Should Remain Top Priorities during COVID-19
- John Hopkins Nursing, Dr. Cecília Tomori
Breastfeeding, Separation, and COVID-19 Specific Resources:
When Separation is not the Answer: Breastfeeding Mothers and Infants affected by COVID‐19
- Wiley Online Library
- Cecilia Tomori – Karleen Gribble – Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist – Mija-Tesse Ververs – Marelle S. Gross
COVID-19: Separating Infected Mothers from Newborns: Weighing the Risks and Benefits
- Harvard Medical School – Melissa Bartick, MD, MS, FABM
Mother-Baby Separation for COVID-19 Not Evidence-Based, Experts Say
- MedScape – Troy Brown, RN
Should New Mothers With COVID-19 Be Separated From Their Newborns
- The Hastings Center
- Stowe Locke Teti – Christy Cummings – Louise P. King – Cynthia C. Coleman – Kayla Tabari – Christine Mitchell
Maternal Mental Health, Separation, and COVID-19 Specific Resources:
COVID-19 and maternal mental health: Are we getting the balance right?
- MedRxiv (The Preprint Server for Health Sciences) – CHS (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – BMJ – Yale
- Anastasia Toplidou – Gill Thomson – Soo Downe
- Taylor & Francis Online
- Ferit Durankuş – Erson Aksu
Breastfeeding and Separation Resources, General:
Rights of Children in Relation to Breastfeeding in Child Protection Cases: downloadable file
Helpful Breastfeeding Resources, General:
- Wiley Online Library – Gayla Bigman
Working with Health Care Providers Resources:
Breastfeeding Empowering Language in Medical Settings
- Mom2Mom Global- Amy Smolinski
The SHARE Approach—Essential Steps of Shared Decisionmaking: Quick Reference Guide
- AHRQ(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The SHARE Approach is a 1-day training program developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to help health care professionals work with patients to make the best possible health care decisions. It supports shared decisionmaking through the use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR).
Current and Ongoing Studies:
ISRHML Activities and Guidance related to COVID-19
- ISRHML (The International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation)
Additional Resources:
- National Library of Medicine – National Center of Biotechnology Information
- Kathleen A Marinelli – Robert M Lawrence
Publishers Provide Scholarly Content Free on Project MUSE During COVID-19 Crisis
- Project Muse
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The Leaky Boob Community Private Facebook Group Guidelines
This post is for those requesting to join The Leaky Boob Community Private Facebook Group to read to determine if they are a good fit for our group. Please note you will have to answer questions in requesting the join the group and there is one that can only be answered if you have read the interaction guidelines agreement entirely.
By participating in this group (from your very first comment or post) you are agreeing to these guidelines. Violation of these guidelines may result in removal or banning from the community.
The Leaky Boob Facebook group is the community extension of theleakyboob.com and the Facebook page, The Leaky Boob. Please find more support in those spaces as well. For community and support for anything beyond infant and toddler feeding, feel free to join our sibling group, We’re All Human Here.
The Leaky Boob Community Group interaction guidelines points:
The Leaky Boob Community Private Facebook Group is inclusive of those seeking infant feeding community with a focus on lactation-centric support. The Leaky Boob Community Private Facebook group is a welcoming space for information sharing, support, and connecting community. By joining and interacting in our group you agree with our community to these interaction guidelines. These are our agreements together.
Absolutely do not block any moderators. Members who block moderators will be banned. Please see current list of moderators at the bottom of this post.
No buy/sell/trade activities in this space (including milk sharing/milk donation requests/offers), The Leaky Boob admin and moderators are not responsible for b/s/t instigated by members. This includes “vote for me” posts. There may, on occasion be opportunities vetted and approved by TLB leadership for special group buys, etc. Such occasions will be clearly communicated from TLB’s leadership.
There are no stupid questions. Ask what you need to ask.
Keep the focus on parenting, infant feeding, etc. Way off-topic posts (such as politics) will be deleted. No photoshop/photo editing requests please, there are groups and sites specifically for these purposes and the requests flood our wall and make it difficult for members to find feeding and parenting support.
Check combative attitudes and language at the door and stick with respectful and encouraging exchanges. Violent language of any type is not permitted in our community even when used figuratively or in venting. This includes expressions of acts of physical violence (i.e. hit someone, smack someone, throat punch, etc.) and threats of violence (i.e. want to kills someone, run them over with a car, etc.). The exception is if you have experienced violence personally and are sharing your story and situation. (For more on what this means to us please read this post.)
Disagreements are fine, name calling, racist statements, bullying, bashing, and offensive language is not.
GoFundMe, or other fundraising that has not specifically been vetted and approved by TLB leadership are also not permitted here. To protect our community, we ask that fundraising or other financial support not be conducted here. Additionally, please understand that we will not be able to view or approve every request. If something emerges for someone within our community and some support seems necessary, please consult with an admin before officially launching any efforts in our community.
To keep our community supportive and safe, please bring complaints up first privately to a moderator or admin.
We do not permit posts about posts in our group be it direct or implied. If a post is removed and another post is made about the post being removed, that too is a violation of our community agreement to not promote drama. Any posts made about other posts will be automatically deleted. Continuing to make posts about other posts will result in removal from our group.
Racism has no place here. Racist images, comments, and speaking of any racial group in demeaning ways is prohibited. Aggressive racist comments and hostile demeaning racist language (such as the N-word) will result in instant banning. We agree to be open to respectful conversations on matters of race seeking to educate ourselves and grow as a community and individuals.
Homophobia and transphobia has no place here. Our community is accepting and affirming.
This is a drama-free zone, friendly, respectful interactions only please. Posts or members that violate this standard will be deleted.
There is a zero tolerance policy regarding the privacy of our group. Sharing screen shots or discussing the content of the group with those already within the group is acceptable, involving anyone NOT in our group is not. Anyone that does so will be banned upon discovery and not added back to the group. There will not be second chances.
There are two and (for the time being) only two topics that are banned in our community. Please do not post memes or thread topics about circumcision or vaccines in this community. The singular exception to this policy at this time relates to those who are genuinely seeking information for themselves/their children. This might be to help them make a decision or to help them care for their own children. If it seems that this exception is being used disingenuously the admins may need to reconsider the matter.
Absolutely NO name calling, not even of people outside of the group (i.e. don’t call someone’s doctor/husband/parent/friend/boss an idiot). Soft name calling (idiot, moron, etc.) will receive a warning and repeat offenders will be banned, harsh name (bitch, asshole, etc.) may result in banning with no warning. Strong opinions can be shared without belittling or name calling.
Please be sensitive in posting images in posts. Before posting a picture reflect on how it may impact someone else. Breastfeeding photos don’t need to be censored (they are expected though not required in this group) but each member should reflect on photos or content outside of breastfeeding such as anything gross (poop shots, festering wounds, etc.), triggering (abuse, loss, pregnancy tests, etc.), and controversial (politics, known divisive issues, and Miley Cyrus). We still want to share those conversations and believe they are important for our community. Respectful posts about them are most certainly wanted. We’re just asking to consider if the image you’re going to post with it which will inevitably pop up in the news feeds of a few thousand members, is something that is helpful for our community or if it would be better to post the image in the comments.
Here at TLB we value supportive, encouraging interactions. When disagreeing with someone it is to be done respectfully and without ridicule, name calling, or bashing. Users are welcome to agree to disagree with civility and respect. Tone can be difficult to decipher in text only forms but we aim for polite exchanges that value people over being right, relationships over opinions, and support over superiority and judgment. We ask that you aim to keep your comments in the spirit of these values. These values serve to preserve the intent of this community and reflect the website theleakyboob.com in promoting and encouraging a safe community. Interactions that do not reflect these values will be deleted and commenters that continue to interact in such a manner will be banned. If possible we will give users a chance to rectify their interactions that violate the spirit and intent of this page. However, if the abuse continues or if it is too extreme to be permitted to remain on the page for any length of time, it may be deleted without warning at the discretion of the page administrators. Please consider how you could share your opinion without being harsh and critical of those that do not agree with you and if you find that impossible then please refrain from commenting at all. Thank you.
~Jessica
Admins of the group:
Sexy Oatmeal
by Carrie Saum
When I was exclusively pumping, I lost interest in oatmeal around month four. Completely. It went the way of my sex drive. Gone. Poof. The end. Oats and penises were unwelcome guests in my body, and it took a while to come back around to both.
As it turns out, I just needed to spice things up a little. Well, okay. That’s not entirely true. I needed to spice things up more than a little. I needed a major boost to my palate, my milk supply and my sex drive.
After doing some research, I discovered a small amount of maca root might boost my sex drive, as well as my milk supply. After having a chat with my doctor and midwife about the possible side effects of maca in breast milk, I felt safe trying it in very small quantities.
I bought some organic maca powder from my favorite local health food store and tasted it. It was pretty gross. I tried mixing it in my coffee. That was worse. I added a half teaspoon to my oatmeal. It wasn’t bad. In fact, I couldn’t taste it.
I choked down quarter of a bowl of oatmeal with the maca. I was still weary of eating oats, so I needed to reinvent them. But what can you do to oats? I mean, at the end of the day, oats are oats, right?
I pumped an hour later and got two ounces more than I typically did at that time of day.
That night, my husband and I were watching TV after putting our son to bed. I had the sudden urge to jump his bones. And I did.
Obviously, the next morning I was determined to make my oatmeal taste decadently delicious. Because it was doing good things for my baby, my body, and my marriage, I needed to make it do good things for my palate. I played with some spice combinations, continuing to add (barely more than a pinch of) maca to my breakfast bowl, and tried dousing it with Indian spices, fresh fruit and nuts. I wanted my oatmeal to taste the way I felt: warm, complex, and sexy.
I know. HOW CAN OATMEAL BE SEXY? But I wanted to dress it up in its most alluring dress with a bra straps slipping, biting it’s lip with smoldering eyes. Ancient maca root and lots of spices do just that. My post-partum body NEEDED me to do that.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups liquid (milk, water, or combination of both)
- 1 cup steel cut oats
- 2 Tbsp butter or coconut oil
- 2 Tbsp ground flaxseed or flax meal (they’re the same)
- 2 tsp raw honey or maple syrup
- ½ tsp maca powder
- ½ tsp of the following spices:
- ground coriander
- ground cardamom
- ground cinnamon
- ground tumeric
- ground ginger (or sub minced candied ginger if you want a little kick and sugar is not a problem for you)
- pinch of salt
- dash of vanilla extract
Directions:
- Combine liquid, salt, oil and spices and bring to a boil in a medium sauce pan. Bring to a boil. (If you are using milk, you will need to stir constantly.)
- Add oats, vanilla and flax meal, and stir well.
- Cook over medium low heat for 20 minutes, stirring often, until thick and creamy, or it reaches your desired consistency. Add maca powder in at the end and mix well.
- Top with sliced almonds or pecans, sliced bananas, and a little raw honey or brown sugar.
Disclaimer One: Too much maca might make you a little testier than usual. It can ramp everything up, including your emotions. It stokes the fires. ALL THE FIRES. So, use restraint when adding it to your oats.
Disclaimer Two: Maca has been used for centuries to naturally support hormone balance, and but you might want to run it by your doctor to be on the safe side. If I took too much, it revved my son up for a few hours. If you or your trained medical professional person feel uncomfortable with the maca, you can omit it. It will still work great with the flax and oats.
Disclaimer Three: Be sure to stock up on condoms or your favorite birth control. Or don’t and make another baby. Either way, this could possibly boost your libido, so be prepared.
Disclaimer Four: Sex after baby can be tricky (some tips from HIM on better sex after baby here, some tips from HER on better sex after baby here.). While a little maca helped my struggling libido, it doesn’t work for everybody. Because everybody’s body is different. So, go easy on yourself, and know there is support for you wherever you’re at.
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If you love this smoothie recipe, you might like this recipe for Paleo Chocolate Chip Granola or these Gluten-Free Strawberry Shortcake on Our Stable Table.
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*Note: It’s important to point out that most women aren’t going to need to eat food with the intention of upping their milk supply, if everything is working the way it is supposed to, your baby will know how to up your supply just fine themselves. Skin-to-skin and feeding on demand are the best ways to increase breastmilk supply to meet your baby’s needs. (Concerned you have low supply? Read this to help figure out if it is something you need to be concerned about.) For those women, galactalogues just happen and they don’t need to think about it. But some women, like me, do need a boost. As a mom who ended up exclusively pumping and indeed having low supply such that I ended up on medication solely to increase my milk production, I know what it’s like to look for anything, anything at all that would help my body make even just a little more milk to help feed my baby. With the support of my health care providers, we tried everything. It becomes “I will eat all the cookies, I will drink all the shakes, I will eat all the parfaits!” if it even just makes me feel like I’m doing something to address the low supply struggle, it is worth it.
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