Johanna Riley Cusack Lactation Consultant IBCLC

30/10/2025

29/10/2025

Today’sTie Talk: Bottle Feeding Essentials

Join us as we explore the clinical complexities of bottle feeding and tongue tie - because the biomechanics and importance of oral function are no less critical than in breastfeeding.

From therapeutic bottle selection to oral motor assessment and post-release rehabilitation - this session addresses the knowledge gap that exists for professionals supporting bottle-fed and combination-fed babies.

Bottle feeding deserves the same clinical attention and expertise. Less education is available, but the functional impact is equally significant.
Designed for clinicians working with babies across all feeding methods.

5:15pm Irish Time | Wednesday 30th October

Link to join in our Bio or DM us for more info!

21/10/2025

“Will the release fix everything?”

It’s the question we hear most from families considering tongue tie treatment—and the answer matters.

The surgical release is essential, but it’s effective only when done properly, at the right time, with comprehensive support before and after.

This week’s Tie Talk dives deep into Release Restrictions - all about the surgery itself.

We’ll cover:

✓ Anatomy and biomechanics explained for parents/patients
✓ What’s involved in the procedure
✓ How to recognise a complete release
✓ What healing should look like
✓ Managing post-op comfort

Clinical concepts made clear - because informed families get better outcomes.

📅 Wednesday 23rd October | 7.00pm IST
💻 Online session
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Any questions answered

Link to register in bio.

14/10/2023

READY for the match! ☘️☘️☘️

29/08/2022

✨ 𝐍𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒 ✨

🗣It’s and this week gives everyone the opportunity to learn about why black babies are at risk.
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🗣There is a disturbingly high black infant mortality rate. Black babies are dying at twice the rate(in some places, nearly triple) the rate of white babies.
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🗣According to the CDC, increased breastfeeding/chestfeeding among black parents could decrease infant mortality rates by as much as 50%.
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🗣Research shows 57% of Black parents initiate breastfeeding/ chestfeeding. The average duration is 6.4 weeks. By six months, only 35.3% of Black families are still nursing.
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🗣Black families are not supported properly in the delicate time immediately following birth to establish a healthy nursing relationship. They return to work sooner to jobs that do not adequately accommodate a nursing parent. And still, racism exists, hurting and hindering the nursing relationship even further. There’s also stigma, not enough resources available, not enough support from their loved ones, and outside stressors along with other challenges.
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🗣Formula is also pushed more on black families than any other race. They are 9 times more likely to be given formula than white parents.
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🗣We need more representation, support, resources, information, and images of black families nursing, and to stop racism. We have to be aware.
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🗣This is a matter of health and saving lives.
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28/07/2022

Lactation Education Resources provides online lactation courses following the IBLCE blueprint designed to prepare students to sit for the IBLCE exam to achieve certification or recertification as lactation consultants.

18/07/2022

Your milk is mostly water, so in the hot weather baby may ask to breastfeed more often. Additional water is not needed, just more breastfeeding! Make sure you stay well hydrated yourself, by keeping a cool drink nearby and enjoying juice fruits and other foods which provide hydration and nutrition. 😎😎😎

13/07/2022

I have been saying this for many years: If you are experiencing breast pain, redness and swelling PLEASE DO NOT : use heat compresses, DO NOT massage your breast with a lot of force, DO NOT use any massagers or suction cups on your breast. It will increase SWELLING AND INFLAMMATION. Use cold compresses, VERY GENTLE: Breast Gymnastics and Therapeutic Breast massage toward lymph nodes, nursing your baby or hand expression. Reach out to your IBCLC or Breastfeeding Medicine doctor. SLOW DOWN AND GET SOME REST!! Be KIND to your breast and to yourself❤️🤱🏿🤱🏻🤱❤️

26/06/2022

24/04/2022

Clare Garden Festival is going to be making a space for mothers available in our food shed as we are Breastfeeding Friendly. Healthy-Clare Ireland We will also have Birthandbeyond.ie with us on the day.

15/04/2022

I would say that 90% of the behavioural, sleep and eating problems I’m asked to help with on a daily basis are developmentally appropriate and entirely normal. Ie: babies acting like babies, toddlers acting like toddlers and so on. The problem this presents is that very often there is no magic solution. Because you can’t fix something that isn’t broken and you can’t speed development and make a child act in ways that are far too mature for their age.

This presents two difficulties for me - how to break this bad news without seeming patronising and/or dismissive and uncaring (something I worry about constantly!) and how to help parents cope with the realisation that the only real answer to their concern is time and patience. .

Our world is obsessed with quick fixes, life hacks and revolutionary solutions. These just don’t exist in parenting though - whatever the ‘problem’. The only real thing we have control over is ourselves. We can’t make our baby or toddler (or even teenager!) behave like an adult, but *we* can be the adult! We can change ourselves. We can take a breath and control our responses, we can make simple changes to avoid tricky situations, we can compromise and we can contain big emotions and difficult behaviour, we can also clear up the ‘mess’ after (be that physical or emotional), we can take better care of ourselves, we can ask for help and we can reset our expectations. This last point is the (frustratingly) real answer to most of the issues parents face. .

🌱For more information on forming realistic expectations of young children and understanding their physical and psychological development - ‘Beginnings - A guide to child psychology and development for parents of 0-5yr olds’ is out this summer! Preorder here: https://amzn.to/3uSWCgh

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