The Mother's Milk Company

07/06/2020

"...resonance between the parent’s and child’s brains allows the baby’s immature nervous system to be “co-regulated by the caregiver’s more mature and differentiated nervous system.”

June 29, 2020 Nursing Is Much More Than Milk June 29, 2020/ Nancy Mohrbacher When discussing lactation, the health effects of human milk often get top billing, but nursing gives children much more than calories and immune-boosting ingredients. Nursing provides sensory stimulation that enhances infan...

05/21/2019

Nice article from USA Today.

Breastfeeding is often referred to as a "natural" process, but there's still a lot about it that new moms are unaware of.

04/03/2019

Great idea! Normalize breastfeeding!

The campaign wants women to feel free to breastfeed in public, without fear of embarrassment.

03/02/2019

The challenges of working and pumping milk! What special work challenges have you overcome to provide your milk for your baby?

If you follow trends on social media, you have seen the viral tweets and pics from women surgeons who have copied the New Yorker magazine cover showing three women leaning over an operating table. …

02/25/2019

Some great advice from Breastfeeding USA on getting the most out of your visit with an IBCLC. We're here to help you meet your breastfeeding goals!

IBCLCs (International Board Certified Lactation Consultants) aren't people we typically see when breastfeeding is going well. If we are working with one, we usually are tired, stressed, worried, overwhelmed, maybe in pain, or even wondering if our child is getting enough to eat. In this situation, i...

01/26/2019

Not good news for working breastfeeding moms! In other words most breastfeeding moms. Beth Bejnarowicz thanks for posting.

A first-of-its-kind study finds that male-dominated industries are the worst offenders.

01/22/2019

Awwww, just awww! Family skin to skin care.

Skin to Skin Contact is not "new",but Sweden certainly leads the way in making this care family -friendly even for very tiny babies.
I love this picture of big brother helping his dad care for the twins!!

"Revolutionary and innovative practices in Uppsala, Sweden. Children of 700 grams can be skin to skin on the parent's chest instead of the incubator.

A Swedish Professor Uwe Ewald, came to Hvidovre hospital (Denmark) to talk about his revolutionary practice, where even very small premature babies are taken out of the incubator to be skin to skin with their parents as much as possible. Premature babies, born three months prematurely, are put on the parent's chest instead of alone in an incubator.

Uwe Ewald points out that the parent's chest regulates the temperature better than an incubator. Skin to skin contact helps the baby to breathe better. The child becomes more calm and gains weight faster. Research shows that parents bacterial flora - compared with hospital bacteria - reduces the risk of serious infections in these delicate children.

100 doctors, nurses and other staff from all over Denmark gather at Hvidovre hospital Friday the 29.5. to hear Uwe Ewald research.
The initiator of the meeting is the Fund "A good start in life" in cooperation with the Neonatal Department at Hvidovre Hospital.
Hvidovre Hospital's neonatal department also has positive experience with skin-to-skin contact and currently has a major research project."

(Translated from the Danish) see below
https://www.facebook.com/150845154985274/photos/a.194252570644532.44859.150845154985274/803999949669788/?type=3&theater

01/16/2019

It's love in a bottle. What all babies deserve.

The Marshfield Children's Hospital is offering parents the choice to supplement with donor breast milk rather than formula in their well baby nursery.

11/13/2018

11/06/2018

2. It increases their resilience.

10/28/2018