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All Things Breastfeeding Podcast
Hosted by Barbara D. Robertson, IBCLC; Barbara Demske RN, BSN · EN
A Comprehensive, Professional Service for All of Your Breastfeeding Needs / Ann Arbor, MI
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All Things Breastfeeding Episode 100! LactaLearning is 3!
Aug 2100:20:59Tap to summarizeNancy and Barbara are celebrating that LactaLearning, Inc is now 3 years old! It is hard to believe that what started out as a dream for Barbara has evolved with Nancy into a thriving business. This podcast shares how Barbara and Nancy became colleagues over forming a book group with Breastfeeding Answers, 2nd Edition in 2020 (now offered as a self-study program), then developed a self-study 95 hour course, brought LactaLearning to life with its first website, and then comprehensive recertification programs. Now three years later, they offer lactation courses that are different than anyone else’s. Really, they have set up LactaLearning to be able to meet anyone’s lactation education needs! They are also celebrating 10 years and 100 episodes of this podcast! Many new podcasts are in the hopper to continue to deliver interesting and informative topics on lactation. Barbara started the podcast in 2015 with the guidance of Barb Demske, then continued with Jessica Beemsterboer, and now Nancy has been added! Busy bees. With a growing social media following, LactaLearning continues to offer posts on Facebook and Instagram that help keep their followers entertained and up to date on lactation happenings. LactaLearning is offering a one day seminar on Low Milk Supply on Saturday, October 25th and in the winter of 2026 a new book group, Working and Breastfeeding Made Simple. Nancy has recently been working on the LactLearning Youtube channel as well to help round things off. Finally, Barbara and Nancy have launched the newly updated LactaLearning website. Check it out! Again, as they celebrate three years in business, founders Barbara Robertson and Nancy Mohrbacher, along with the LactaLearning team, Jessica, Veronica, Heather, Janelle, and Carrie, unveil a new look and introduce easier-than-ever access to all things lactation. With a new glossary of terms, clear class descriptions, and resources designed to empower your lactation journey, we aim to be your go-to resource as you pursue lactation consulting. We invite you to visit lactalearning.com to browse our many options for lactation education. Barbara and Nancy are always available to answer your questions and to make your lactation goals attainable. The post All Things Breastfeeding Episode 100! LactaLearning is 3! appeared first on The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor.
Transcribe →All Things Breastfeeding Episode 99: Interview with Kimberly Seals Allers
Aug 15, 202500:33:11Tap to summarizeKimberly Seals Allers’ words, “I’m a femtech founder, writer, speaker and maternal and infant health strategist with a bold vision to transform the experience of motherhood for all and to eradicate racial disparities in birth and breastfeeding.” Kimberly is someone who sees an issue and works on solutions! She gets things done! Barbara was lucky to be able to catch up with Kimberly on All Things Breastfeeding. From her website: “Veteran journalist and five-time author turned maternal and infant health advocate and femtech founder. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, I created Irth, as in birth but we dropped the B for bias, as the first-of-its kind, doctor and hospital review & rating platform just for Black and brown women and birthing people. I leveraged decades of media experience and a passion for mothering into a vision and platform to use technology to amplify community voices to address racism and bias in Black maternal and infant care. Irth is a non-profit project of my 501C3, Narrative Nation, which also produces the Birthright podcast, where I share positive Black birthing stories as a direct counter to the doom and gloom narrative too common in mainstream media coverage of Black maternal health.” Kimberly’s new project has been connecting families with a maternal loss at birth with a human milk bank so the baby can receive human milk for the beginning of their life. So powerful. Human Milk Justice for Infants “Powered by HMBANA & Kimberly Seals Allers. The Restoration Project (TRP) is an innovative national response mechanism that addresses the nutritional needs of newborns who have lost their mothers due to pregnancy-related deaths. A partnership between the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) and Kimberly Seals Allers, this initiative builds a nationwide network to collect and distribute donor milk to medically and economically vulnerable populations. Human milk is critical for infant health. TRP ensures that infants impacted by childbirth-related maternal loss receive compassionate care and immediate access to human milk, the best first food for an infant’s health and development.” The post All Things Breastfeeding Episode 99: Interview with Kimberly Seals Allers appeared first on The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor.
Transcribe →All Things Breastfeeding Episode 98: Relactation and Induced Lactation
Aug 8, 202500:26:29Tap to summarizeIn this episode Nancy and Barbara discuss the latest findings on relacation and induced lactation. According to University of Western Australia’s LactaPedia, an online comprehensive glossary of human lactation terms freely available to professionals and parents (https://lactapedia.com/lactapedia-site/homee), relactation is defined as the re-establishment of lactation after the immediate post-birth period. This restricts relactation only to mothers and other birthing parents who delivered the current baby. This differs from the broader definition used in the 2020 Breastfeeding Answers and other lactation textbooks, which includes anyone who had ever given birth to any baby. Due to the breast-tissue growth during pregnancy, this previous definition assumed those who had ever given birth had an advantage in bringing in milk. Now, establishing milk production by anyone who did not give birth to the current baby is defined as induced lactation. Bringing in full milk production for a baby the parent did not birth is not easy but it can be done. However, thinking of nursing in terms of “all or nothing” is particularly unhelpful. Any nursing can be beneficial for the parent and the baby. Any human milk the baby receives is positive. At the end of this Module, you will find many induced lactation resources. One of the best is Breastfeeding Without Birthing, a book by Alyssa Schnell, an easy read and loaded with information. Here are some possible strategies for inducing lactation. Before the baby arrives One option is an induced lactation protocol using birth control pills and other medications and/or herbs, although these protocols have not been formally studied https://www.asklenore.info/breastfeeding/induced-lactation Another option is taking galactagogues during the month before the baby is due Consider improving gut health to improve milk production Consider beginning a pumping schedule to maximize milk production. For the adopted babies, breastfeeding more than just something nice to do http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/pdf/1746-4358-1-5.pdf Once the baby arrives, have the baby’s overall weight checked once a week to ensure proper gain and consider pre and post weights until milk supple is fully established and baby is exclusively nursing. Spend lots of time with the baby skin to skin as soon as possible. Get comfy in a starter position and enjoy! It will help remind the babies about breastfeeding and trigger inborn feeding behaviours. https://vimeo.com/user64721573 Make sure the baby latches deeply. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GvA-nXVp0esv3Y0TmZ-Q87Amv-4Ylbda/view If the baby is nursing, consider supplementing the babies at the breast using a supplemental nursing system or a Lactaid https://youtu.be/-mDeRb_iGD4 If using bottles, consider paced bottle feeding. See Module VII.A.1 for more on this. Until baby is nursing, consider finger feeding. Induced lactation websites and resources: Alyssa Schnell- Best one in our opinion https://alyssaschnellibclc.mykajabi.com/ Podcast (45 min.) hour) with Alyssa Schnell, Getting Off to a Good Start with Inducing Lactation/Relactation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/042-getting-started-with-inducing-lactation-relactation/id1078526428?i=1000429588067 Podcast with Alyssa Schnell about her book https://bfcaa.com/all-things-breastfeeding-episode-13-breastfeeding-without-birthing-with-alyssa-schnell/ The biology of the induced lactation in a nutshell https://www.asklenore.info/breastfeeding/induced-lactation/an-introduction-to-induced-lactation/biology-of-induced-lactation https://kellymom.com/ages/adopt-relactate/relactation-resources/ https://www.canadianbreastfeedingfoundation.org/induced/accelerated_protocol.shtml https://breastfeedingusa.org/breastfeeding-your-adopted-baby/ https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/resources/relactation-and-induced-lactation Nice blog on Re-lactation http://lactationmatters.org/2012/11/29/providing-support-for-mothers-who-wish-to-relactate/ The post All Things Breastfeeding Episode 98: Relactation and Induced Lactation appeared first on The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor.
Transcribe →All Things Breastfeeding Episode 97: Interview with Kay Hoover
Aug 5, 202500:38:52Tap to summarizeBarbara first meet Kay Hoover at her favorite conference, Lactation Consultants in Private Practice about 18 years ago. Kay and her dear friend Chris Mulford, created the conference to help private practice folks improve their skills. Kay has been in the field for years, in many different roles, working in private practice, at the hospital, and in public health. From the introduction to The Breastfeeding Atlas, 7th Ediction, Kay…”retired from her hospital job as a lactation consultant at the end of 2019. During the pandemic she provided many on-line presentations to maintain her career-long commitment to educating the next generation of lactation consultants. Kay became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 1985 and was recognized as a Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant Association in 2008. During her career she served as a lactation consultant for four different hospitals. Kay was also employed as a lactation consultant by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for the Breastfeeding Awareness and Support Program, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health in the Division of Maternal, Child and Family Health, and the Center of Childhood Obesity Research at the Pennsylvania State University. In addition, she maintained a private practice for over 20 years. Kay has an international reputation as a lecturer, author, and clinical photographer. Since 1971 she has been a La Leche League Leader and a member of the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition since its inception in 1992. She served for six years on the Board of Directors of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. Kay and Charlie, her husband of 55 years, raised their sons, Douglas, Steven, and David, in the Philadelphia area and are the grandparents of Daniel, Eric, and Robert.” Articles Kay referred to: Vazirinejad R, Darakhshan S, Esmaeili A, et al. The effect of maternal breast variations on neonatal weight gain in the first seven days of life. International Breastfeeding Journal Nov 2009 https://internationalbreastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1746-4358-4-13 Claesson IM, Larsson L, Steen L, et al. “You just need to leave the room when you breastfeed” Breastfeeding experiences among obese women in Sweden – A qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 18(1):39, 2018 https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-017-1656-2 The post All Things Breastfeeding Episode 97: Interview with Kay Hoover appeared first on The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor.
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