Book Review: Why Birth Trauma Matters
Reviewing Why Birth Trauma Matters, by Emma Svanberg 5/5 This is such an important book that needed to be written. It is written by a clear expert in this subject, || Read more ||
Johanna Sargeant
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 ||
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 ||
Book Review: Sweet Sleep
Reviewing Sweet Sleep by Diane Wiessinger, Diana West, Linda J. Smith, and Teresa Pitman A lot of parents hold fears about cosleeping and bedsharing, and can end up in an even || Read more ||
Book Review: This Isn’t What I Expected
Reviewing This Isn’t What I Expected by Karen R. Kleiman, Valerie Davis Raskin This is a brilliant book that deals with postpartum depression and also – though not quite to the same || Read more ||
Book Review: The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
Reviewing The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by Diane Wiessinger, Diana West, Teresa Pitman This book prides itself on being a kind of breastfeeding bible, and one that I hear a || Read more ||
Book Review: Why Oxytocin Matters
Reviewing Why Oxytocin Matters by Kerstin Uvnas Moberg I was excited to get my hands on this little book for a number of reasons, most of them unashamedly personal. Coming || 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 ||