Last weekend, while wading through so many old notebooks and writing scraps, I found myself rereading a diary of mine, with letters I wrote to
It’s time to tell my own story. My story is hard for me to tell, but I feel it is important — and get ready
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
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
I remember a day early in my second boy’s life; I was struggling. I was physically and emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, and struggling with my milk
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what I want this blog to become, as I no longer have the need to write about my
So when CAN you use the Haakaa*? In my last post, I wrote about some of the issues that I see from clients of
So you’ve probably heard about this thing called a Haakaa. You might even have one! Maybe you used it and loved it and spread the
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?’
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
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
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
Reviewing When Breastfeeding Sucks : What you need to know about nursing aversion and agitation, by Zainab Yate 5/5 Zainab Yate is a gentle powerhouse
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
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
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
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
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
