Loudoun Breastfeeding Coalition

03/04/2025

Mastitis is a painful inflammation of breast tissue that often affects breastfeeding women. Symptoms can include pain, swelling, warmth, and redness in the affected breast that sometimes includes a breast infection that can also cause fever and chills.

04/04/2019

https://journals.lww.com/pedpt/Fulltext/2018/10000/Physical_Therapy_Management_of_Congenital_Muscular.2.aspx

muscle; it may be accompanied by other neurological or musculoskeletal conditions. Infants with CMT should be referred to physical therapists to treat these postural asymmetries as soon as they are identified. Purpose: This update of the 2013 CMT clinical practice guideline (CPG) informs clinicians....

07/13/2018

Reston Town Center Peds is sponsoring the Northern VA location for the BIG LATCH. The global BIG LATCH ON is coming August 4th! What is the BIG LATCH ON? Several years ago it started and it has become a worldwide event where moms come together on the same day to celebrate the hard work of breastfeeding. breastfeeding or pumping moms and babies are welcome to attend our event. Please RSVP to reserve a spot. They will have light refreshments, door prizes and community of support!

03/02/2018

https://kellymom.com/hot-topics/frozen-milk-power-outage/

How to preserve your "liquid gold" when your power goes out, plus some tips for pump-dependent mothers.

08/05/2017

Happy !

In honour of , GOLD Learning is offering free access to a fantastic presentation by Maya Bolman titled "The Art of Therapeutic Breast Massage in Supporting Breastfeeding". Research suggests that mothers may forgo breastfeeding due to pain, and that the likelihood of weaning increases the longer pain persists. Engorgement, plugged ducts, and mastitis are commonly associated with acute breast pain. Therapeutic Breast Massage in Lactation (TBML) is one of the important measures to resolve pain quickly. Gain new insights & techniques that you can apply to your breastfeeding support toolbox!

Free registration from August 1 - 7. Enjoy 3 weeks access time after you sign up. Earn 1 L-CERP, CNE, Dietetic CPEU & 0.1 MEAC Midwifery CEU.

Sign Up Here: https://www.goldlearning.com/ce-library/all-lectures/art-of-therapeutic-breast-massage-54r-detail

Happy ! Join us as we celebrate this important initiative and together work towards the promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding around the world.

As we continue our commitment towards accessible breastfeeding education, we're proud to forge new partnerships with breastfeeding educators, associations & coalitions in order to help promote breastfeeding across the globe. A significant theme of World Breastfeeding Week is engaging and promoting breastfeeding as a key step to achieving global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Breastfeeding plays an important part in many of the SDGs including; ending poverty, ending hunger, improving nutrition, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well being.

In honour of , GOLD Learning is offering free access to a fantastic presentation by Maya Bolman titled "The Art of Therapeutic Breast Massage in Supporting Breastfeeding". Research suggests that mothers may forgo breastfeeding due to pain, and that the likelihood of weaning increases the longer pain persists. Engorgement, plugged ducts, and mastitis are commonly associated with acute breast pain. Therapeutic Breast Massage in Lactation (TBML) is one of the important measures to resolve pain quickly. Gain new insights & techniques that you can apply to your breastfeeding support toolbox!

Free registration from August 1 - 7. Enjoy 3 weeks access time after you sign up. Earn 1 L-CERP, CNE, Dietetic CPEU & 0.1 MEAC Midwifery CEU.

Sign Up Here: https://www.goldlearning.com/ce-library/all-lectures/art-of-therapeutic-breast-massage-54r-detail

08/03/2017

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, USLCA is offering a webinar free to EVERYONE: Breastfeeding Friendly Practices Presented by Suzanne Aquilina, DNP, PBP-BC, IBCLC
Available only until August 7th!

access your free webinar here: https://uslca.org/education-resources/non-member-recorded-webinars #!form/RecordedWebinars

USLCA offers several webinars on many different topics that aim to help educate health professionals and the IBCLC. Become a member today and receive 2 free webinars per quarter and receive a member discount on all other webinars. www.uslca.org/join

08/03/2017

Happy World Breastfeeding Week! This is a refreshing post from Dr. Jenny Thomas who is a pediatrician and also a Lactation Consultant.

"What I would like you to remember about your hospital stay

1. I was in the room.
2. The clock is not important.
3. P**p is important.
4. Urine output is deceptive.
5. Your baby will lose weight.
6. Your milk is in- you have enough.
7. Your baby will always act “hungry” when away from you.
8. Your baby will turn yellow.
9. Watch out for the second night.
10. You need to promise me that you will seek help if you have questions."

http://www.drjen4kids.com/soap%20box/newbornstay.htm #.WYJceTZu3oI.facebook

There is nothing, nothing, more special for me as a physician than to meet a family and their brand new baby.  Every morning when I round, meeting my new patients, I love seeing  all sorts of families of whatever composition, background, philosophy, or geography because they are all excited to share...

07/12/2017

The more you hug a baby, the more their brains grow, according to a recent survey from the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio.
•Preterm infants’ first weeks can be in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs)
•NICU treatments for improving neurodevelopmental outcomes rely heavily on touch
•Prematurity and touch quality determine the extent of attenuated brain responses
•Perinatal somatosensory experiences may scaffold later development
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.036

Maitre et al. show that the degree of prematurity at birth determines the extent of attenuated brain responses to touch. This directly depended on the quality of touch experiences, even when controlling for prematurity and analgesics. Perinatal experiences shape the somatosensory scaffolding of late...

07/04/2017

Let's explore how the protein in breast milk, ALAC (alpha-lactalbumin), when combined with oleic acid (from olive oil) kills cancer. The common factor seems to be tryptophan metabolism. ALAC in whey is high in tryptophan and used to address neurological disease. And tryptophan metabolism is studied in cancer re: IDO (Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase). And then we have gut microbiota driving tryptophan metabolism as they make it and break it. And their LPS toxins activate IDO.

Such are the crossroads of cancer, neurological disease and the gut-brain.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/meet-woman-trying-cure-cancer-breast-milk/amp/

In a picturesque medieval town stands the ivy-covered Lund University, proudly displaying a historic crest dating back to 1666.

05/14/2017

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-4503772/index.html

Professor Catharina Svanborg, from Lund University in Sweden, made the chance discovery that the substance kills tumour cells when working on antibiotics.

05/02/2017

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586646/

Background: Infants of breastfeeding mothers with persistent ni**le pain have been shown to apply stronger vacuums to the breast and transfer less milk during one monitored feed. This may be associated with differences in the movement of the tongue. The ...