Virtual Consults: What I’ve learnt
Due to the current situation with the You-Know-What Virus, a lot of lactation consultants are having to turn to virtual support to serve their clients. I’ve been giving virtual consults || Read more ||
Johanna Sargeant
Book Club?
Hi everyone! After a lot of requests, I’ve decided to create a kind of ‘book club’ on my website here, where I write reviews on some of the new books || Read more ||
Preparing for your Home Visit: Should I feed my baby?
Very often, when driving to a home visit, I get a message on my phone: ‘He’s hungry! Should I feed him?! Should I try to wait?’ I’m driving, so I can’t || Read more ||
Some Vital Info about Dehydration
So I’m going to be all serious now, and add some information here about dehydration in babies. I’ve spoken often about how exclusively breastfed babies do not need extra water, || Read more ||
Top Tips for using an SNS
Have you every tried a Supplemental Nursing System (SNS)? Looks kind of complicated and scary, right? It doesn’t need to be! Let me make it super easy for you. But || Read more ||
Gentle Night Weaning: Finding our own way
I thought, like many mums of breastfeeding toddlers, that it would be totally impossible to night wean my two year old. Any time I read someone’s explanation of how they || Read more ||
Interview with Me: My Fight with Low Supply
It’s time to tell my own story. My story is hard for me to tell, but I feel it is important. I have made many decisions throughout our breastfeeding journey, || Read more ||
Breastfeeding Aversion, or ‘Wanting to Scream, Run and Break Things’
I thought breastfeeding aversion, or nursing aversion and agitation, was something that only inflicted pregnant mothers. And I’m not pregnant, so why have I had so many moments of hating breastfeeding lately? || Read more ||
Interview with Claire: Constant Pain
Claire is a Switzerland-based Australian writer whose passionate, thought-provoking musings and poetry can be found at clairevetica.wordpress.com. The clarity and intensity in both her self and her writing is something || Read more ||
Speaking at the WHO
Last weekend, I travelled to Geneva to speak on a panel at the World Health Organisation’s Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative congress. Surrounded by over 300 experts from 137 countries, I || Read more ||