Centro de lactancia y pediatría. Dra. Colmenares IBCLC

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HOSPITAL MEDICA SUR, TORRE 1-129

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Mexico City
Centro de lactancia y pediatría. Dra. Colmenares IBCLC

Pediatra/IBCLC, Breastfeeding Medicine. Tongue-tie practitioner. Specialist in neurodevelopment. Consultorio Pediátrico especializado en Lactancia.

Atención al recién nacido y hasta los 18 años de edad. Atención al crecimiento y desarrollo. Detección oportuna de enfermedades, así como vacunas y prevención. Especial atención y consultoría a la madre y su bebe en el periodo de lactancia. Resolver problemas como falta de leche, dolor, grietas, mala técnica, bebés con problemas neurológicos, hipotónicos, labio y paladar hendido, gemelos, entre otros. Conoce más en: https://linktr.ee/dra.colmenares_ibclc

27/10/2025

Boosting Milk Supply in Moms with preemies (interesting study) 👶💪
Many moms of preterm babies struggle to make enough milk during long hospital stays. This study tested whether domperidone—a medication that raises prolactin—could help.
✨ Study Highlights:
47 moms with low milk supply joined a 14-day trial (domperidone vs placebo).
Milk volume ↑ from 156 mL → 401 mL with domperidone vs 176 mL → 261 mL with placebo (📈 p < 0.01).
Prolactin levels rose significantly in the domperidone group.
No side effects reported.
95% of babies in the domperidone group were exclusively breastfed at discharge vs 52% in placebo (p = 0.008).
💡 Conclusion: Domperidone safely boosts milk production and breastfeeding success in mothers of preterm infants.
🤱 Teamwork Matters:
Including a breastfeeding and lactation medicine specialist as part of the multidisciplinary care team helps provide expert guidance, personalized support, and continuity of care—empowering mothers to reach their breastfeeding goals and optimize outcomes for their babies (Effect of Domperidone on Breast Milk Production in Mothers of Sick Neonates: a Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial, https://doi.org/10.1089/bfm.2020.0234)

18/10/2025

🌙✨ “Night Nannies” and the Early Parenting Experience
It’s understandable — new parents are exhausted. Support at night sounds like a dream come true. But before outsourcing those nighttime feeds, it’s important to understand what the evidence says.
When someone else feeds or soothes your baby overnight (especially with bottles or formula), it can:
🍼 Reduce breast stimulation — leading to lower milk supply
🤱 Interrupt on-demand feeding, which is how babies regulate intake and how mothers maintain production
💔 Create early separation that may affect bonding and maternal CONFIDENCE.
Research shows that inappropriate supplementation or separation in the early weeks can undermine a mother’s confidence in her ability to meet her baby’s needs — both nutritionally and emotionally.
That doesn’t mean parents shouldn’t get rest or support — they absolutely should! 💕
But the best kind of support protects the breastfeeding relationship, closeness, and parental confidence.
If help is needed at night, consider:
🌿 A partner or helper who brings baby to you for feeds
🌿 Gentle reassurance and hands-on help without replacing the parent-baby connection
🌿 Daytime rest and practical support so nights can stay for feeding and bonding
Empowering parents means giving them truthful, compassionate information — not quick fixes that may cost them confidence and connection later on. 💫Photography: https://unsplash.com/es/

16/10/2025

15 de Octubre. Día del duelo perinatal. Me ha tocado acompañar a pacientes y familias, y familia cercana…. No hay palabras que alivien el vacío que deja un hijo que partió demasiado pronto.
Solo el amor permanece, transformado en memoria.

Hoy recordamos con ternura a todos los bebés que viven en el corazón de sus familias.

. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧October 15th. Perinatal Grief Day. I have been involved with patients, families, and close relatives… There are no words that can ease the void left by a child who left too soon.
Only love remains, transformed into memory.

Today we tenderly remember all the babies who live in the hearts of their families.

15/10/2025

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧When Feeding Still Hurts is usually very frustrating.

🤱 If pain and feeding difficulties persist — even after expert support with positioning, latch, osteopathy, or craniosacral therapy — it’s time for a thorough reassessment.

Feeding should be comfortable, efficient, and pain-free.
Extra supports (like pumping, ni**le shields, or bottles) can help families transition — but they’re not physiological long-term solutions.

Every decision about treatment should be based on evidence and complete assessment, not just visible anatomy.

Feeding shouldn’t hurt.

If pain persists after trying all supportive strategies — reassess.

Extra tools like ni**le shields or pumping can help, but there is something not working as expected.

Every decision should be evidence-based and individualised.

Efficient, comfortable feeding is possible —

and yes, tongue ties (restrictive frenulum, whatever the position in the mouth) can affect the outcome. Usually treatment should never be isolated, but is crucial to work as a multidisciplinary team. Add. This tongue restriction wasn’t visible just looking at babies mouth. Immediate improvement after procedure.

08/10/2025

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿It often seems that tongue ties are becoming more common, but I recognize that my perspective may be shaped by bias. As a medical doctor and breastfeeding specialist, I tend to see families who have already sought and exhausted other avenues of support—such as positioning help, attachment work, chiropractic care, midwifery guidance, or mental health support. The cases that reach me are usually the more complex ones, often involving multiple overlapping challenges. It’s also true that today, there is much greater awareness and interest in breastfeeding, which motivates families to seek more help and persist through difficulties that, in the past, might have brought their breastfeeding journey to an early end. So while it can feel like tongue ties are increasing, it can also be that we seeing a concentrated group of complex cases, alongside a growing commitment from families to find solutions and continue breastfeeding. 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽A veces parece que los frenillos linguales son cada vez más frecuentes, pero reconozco que mi perspectiva puede estar influenciada por cierto sesgo. Como médica y especialista en lactancia, suelo atender a familias que ya han buscado y agotado otras vías de apoyo, como el trabajo de posición y agarre, la atención quiropráctica, el acompañamiento de consultoras en lactancia o el apoyo en salud mental. Los casos que llegan a mí suelen ser los más complejos, a menudo con varias dificultades superpuestas. También es cierto que hoy existe un mayor interés y conciencia sobre la lactancia materna, lo que impulsa a las familias a buscar más ayuda y a perseverar ante los desafíos que, en otro momento, podrían haber significado el fin de su lactancia. Por eso, aunque puede parecer que los frenillos linguales están aumentando, es posible que también estemos viendo un grupo concentrado de casos complejos, junto con un creciente compromiso de las familias por encontrar soluciones y continuar amamantando.

03/10/2025

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01/10/2025

To the maternity nurse who told a new family that formula has more nutrients than breastmilk — I need to ask you something.
Where did you train? What experience gave you the confidence to say such harmful, false things to vulnerable families?
Telling a mother to give formula at night “because it has more nutrients”? Telling her she’s too tired to breastfeed and should just stop? Suggesting that her breastmilk isn’t enough? That could be the cause of colic or reflux? That’s better to use bottles? That she can express instead?
That’s not support. That’s not evidence-based. That’s sabotage.
In one of the most fragile, defining moments in a family’s life, your words carry weight. Your misinformation doesn’t just affect a baby’s health — it directly impacts a mother’s mental health, her anxiety, her confidence, her will to parent, her family…
Why are you speaking on behalf of exhausted mums instead of actually supporting them?
We don’t need your pity. They need truth, encouragement, and real help (and yes, sometimes can include formula, pumping or bottles).
If you’re in this profession, it’s your duty to be informed — and if you don’t want to do the work to stay up to date, you shouldn’t be working with postpartum families at all.
Get trained. Stop lying. Do better. -
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28/09/2025

🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽La Medicina de la Lactancia Materna es una subespecialidad internacional en crecimiento, centrada en la fisiología, la patología y los aspectos sociales de la lactancia materna. En los últimos 50 años, se ha convertido en un campo reconocido, respaldado por la Academia de Medicina de la Lactancia Materna, con programas de capacitación en todo el mundo y certificación en Estados Unidos y Canadá. Los especialistas abordan problemas de lactancia tanto rutinarios como complejos en diversos entornos de atención, lo que requiere habilidades clínicas integrales y sensibilidad al contexto familiar. Los profesionales de este campo también actúan como defensores, investigadores, asesores de políticas y educadores. Los principales desafíos incluyen la institucionalización de programas, el fortalecimiento de las agendas de investigación sobre problemas clínicos comunes, la lucha contra la comercialización de fórmulas comerciales y la ampliación de las oportunidades de capacitación. Este documento, elaborado por un grupo internacional de expertos, describe el alcance, los profesionales, los desafíos y los ejemplos de casos en este campo. Es importante que la Medicina de la Lactancia Materna comience a ser reconocida más ampliamente como una subespecialidad médica en todo el mundo, incluyendo el Reino Unido y México, donde esta mi corazón, para garantizar un acceso equitativo a la atención especializada para las familias. El DOI es 10.1089/bfm.2025.65870.abm

28/09/2025

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine is a growing international subspecialty focused on the physiology, pathology, and social aspects of breastfeeding. Over the past 50 years, it has developed into a recognized field, supported by the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, with training programs worldwide and board certification in the US and Canada. Specialists manage both routine and complex lactation issues across diverse care settings, requiring comprehensive clinical skills and sensitivity to family context. Professionals in this field also serve as advocates, researchers, policy advisors, and educators. Key challenges include institutionalizing programs, strengthening research agendas on common clinical problems, countering commercial formula marketing, and expanding training opportunities. This paper, authored by an international group of experts, outlines the scope, practitioners, challenges, and case examples in the field.
Importantly, Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine should begin to be more widely recognized as a medical subspecialty across the world — including in the UK and in Mexico, where my heart lies — to ensure equitable access to specialized care for families. DOI is 10.1089/bfm.2025.65870.abm

03/09/2025

Está por empezar el Diplomado de Consejería en Lactancia Materna de México. Se que muchas de mis alumnas están por aquí. Comenten! Compartan! Si hablo yo tendría un sesgo, en considerarlo el mejor diplomado, el más completo, con excelentes ponentes súper expertos en sus áreas, con prácticas súper originales e interesantes. ¿Les dije que además hay convenio con algunos hospitales para hacer prácticas clínicas al terminar?, o contacto para mentorías por IBCLC?. Hay además coordinadores locales en diversas partes de México y en otras partes del mundo! Y bueno, perfecto para tu camino a certificarte como IBCLC. Escribe si tienes dudas.

28/08/2025

There are some signs which suggest your mental health during or after pregnancy might be under pressure.
You may have noticed:
Sudden, big, or constant changes in your mood or emotions
Thoughts or images about harming yourself or harm coming to your baby (intrusive thoughts)
Feeling overwhelmed by guilt, shame, or hopelessness
Struggling to bond with your baby or feeling detached from them
Finding it impossible to sleep or relax, even when your baby is sleeping
Thinking that you’re not a good parent or your baby is better off without you
Seeing, hearing, or believing things that others don’t
Frequent worry or fear about food or your body image
These symptoms cover a range of perinatal mental health conditions, some of which are more common than others.
If you experience any of the symptoms above, or something else that doesn’t feel right for you, speak to your GP, midwife or health visitor without delay.

23/08/2025

From tongue ties to tongue ties, breasts to breasts, milk supply to ……, so many things are involved in breastfeeding, and only releasing a tongue-tie will usually not be enough to address this complexity. I am sure that osteopathy can be really helpful in many cases, however, not always only by itself, and much less if there is an important tongue restriction. When families are told tongue restrictions don’t exist, often misleads them and delays treatment. Together we are stronger.

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