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07/16/2022

🦠 A common childhood virus called parechovirus, which can cause severe illness in infants younger than 3 months, is spreading in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a health alert issued this Tuesday.

🤍 Good news is HUMAN MILK contains neutralizing antibodies that have been proven to inhibit replication of the virus. Another one of the many amazing benefits of human breastmilk 🤍

Source:

https://www.today.com/today/amp/rcna38231

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 6, Issue Supplement_2, October 2019, Page S899, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.2264
Published: 23 October 2019

06/28/2022

✨Prolactin✨

🤍While oxytocin is secreted by the posterior pituitary glad, prolactin is a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland. Both hormones play a major role in lactation.

🤍Thanks to oxytocin levels rising allowing for uterine contraction, the placenta is birthed and progesterone levels drop. The outer edge of the alveolar (milk secretory cells) now have new receptor sites where prolactin can enter. This is why skin-to-skin and nursing within the first 2 hours after the placenta is released is so important.

🤍You will still continue to create more prolactin but you have the opportunity to set yourself up for significantly more milk production during this time.

🤍As the baby suckles, this stimulation sends a message through the thoracic/ intercostal nerves to the brain (pituitary gland) to secrete prolactin into the blood. It then transverses through the body, including the milk cells.

🤍As frequency of nursing decreases, so does prolactin production.

✨Aka SUPPLY AND DEMAND✨

🤍Studies have show that women who pump or nurse more FREQUENTLY produce TWICE AS MUCH milk than women who nurse for the same amount of time total, but fewer sessions. This is due to the rise and fall of prolactin. Less frequent feedings mean less prolactin which your brain interprets as weaning behavior.

🤍We have prolactin and oxytocin in our bodies ALL THE TIME. You don’t even need to have a uterus and is even present in menopausal age.

🤍Even non-pregnant/non lactating women respond to touch and increase prolactin.

💖OUR BODIES ARE SO AMAZING!

06/28/2022

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding of infants for the first six months of life before introducing nutritious complementary foods, while encouraging social and systemic changes to support mothers who choose to breastfeed.

The AAP outlines its recommendations and evidence of significant health benefits to infant and mother within an updated policy statement and technical report, both titled, “Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk” Published in the July 2022 issue of Pediatrics and available online June 27. The updates include a recommendation to support parents who choose to breastfeed their infant to age 2 and beyond.

The AAP recommends:

✨Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months. There is no need to introduce infant formula or other sources of nutrition for most infants.

✨Beyond 6 months, breastfeeding should be maintained along with nutritious complementary foods.

✨AAP recommends that birth hospitals or centers implement maternity care practices that improve breastfeeding initiation, duration, and exclusivity.

✨There are continued benefits from breastfeeding beyond 1 year, and up to 2 years especially in the mother. Long-term breastfeeding is associated with protections against diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancers of the breast and ovaries.

✨Mothers who choose to breastfeed beyond the first year need support from their medical care providers, as well as protections against workplace barriers.

✨Policies that protect breastfeeding, including universal paid maternity leave; the right of a woman to breastfeed in public; insurance coverage for lactation support and breast pumps; on-site child care; universal workplace break time with a clean, private location for expressing milk; the right to feed expressed milk; and the right to breastfeed in child care centers and lactation rooms in schools are all essential to supporting families in sustaining breastfeeding.

06/27/2022

🌟HOW AMAZING IS THIS!!🌟

✨In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, it was common for unwanted children, especially girls, to be abandoned. People abandoned children because of many factors: illegitimacy, war, famine, plague, and extreme poverty. Many were the illegitimate children of servants and enslaved people.

✨Established in 1445, this Renaissance hospital in Florence, Italy featured a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped. A sort of turnstile door was constructed so that a woman could drop off the baby without being seen.

✨At this facility it was identified for the first time the importance of human milk to orphaned babies, and that orphaned newborns were very likely to survive when fed by breast. They provided wet nursing services for them, or sent them to a wet nurse in the countryside and weaned them.

✨Abandoned children were taught life skills—boys learned to read and write, while girls learned sewing and cooking. Over more than 500 years, the Ospedale degli Innocenti cared for over 375,000 children.

✨Today the building houses a small museum of Renaissance art and continues to help care for abandoned children today. UNICEF operates a child health initiative from this historic building.

06/25/2022

Abortion ✨IS✨ Healthcare.

Sad and angry. Here are some resources from and :

06/24/2022

Roe v Wade Overturned

What this means for you?

First, 13 states with “trigger bans,” designed to take effect as soon as Roe is overturned, will ban abortion within 30 days. Several other states where recent antiabortion legislation has been blocked by the courts are expected to act next, with lawmakers moving to activate their dormant legislation. A handful of states also have pre-Roe abortion bans that could be brought back to life.

This is a sad day and huge step back for women’s reproductive rights. Banning abortions doesn’t stop abortions, it only leads to unsafe abortion practices, increase in mental health disorders among women and pregnant persons, and death.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/abortion-state-laws-criminalization-roe/

https://reproductiverights.org/maps/worlds-abortion-laws/?country=USA https://reproductiverights.org/maps/worlds-abortion-laws/

06/24/2022

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06/24/2022

Haakaa® products are now in stock! We have Gen 2 and 3 Silicone Breast Pumps, Ladybug Milk Collector, and Colostrum Collectors 🤍

06/22/2022

🌟NEW PRODUCT🌟

🤍Our soothing ni**le balm is made with organic ingredients and is lanolin-free. Safe for baby and no need to wash it off before nursing.

May also be used as a fully body moisturizer. 🤗

All Organic Ingredients:
Organic Cococs Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Organic Theobroma Cacai Seed (Cocoa) Butter, Organic Cera Alba (Beeswax), Vitamin E Oil.

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