Jen Mantyka, Program Director for Healthiest Babies Possible, serving Surrey, Delta and White Rock, and Carol Dyck, a public health nurse and lactation consultant with Fraser Health, has developed a Breastfeeding Café to serve the needs of mothers who meet the CPNP criteria and are interested in breastfeeding their infants. To learn more about their experience of setting up their new program, click here.
Read MoreTanya Lieberman, host of the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog, recently interviewed Penny Simkin about breastfeeding issues for mothers who are survivors of sexual abuse. In the interview, Penny talked about breastfeeding for survivors of early sexual abuse, including common feelings of survivors about breastfeeding and ways that breastfeeding support people can support survivors.
Read MoreThe Best Start Resource Centre, with funding from the Government of Ontario, has produced a new resource booklet, Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding and Younger Women, available online.
Read MoreA pair of new international studies, funded by the Government of Canada through Grand Challenges Canada and published this July, further strengthen scientific understanding of the links between what a child experiences in the first years of life and later childhood behaviour and abilities.
Read MoreThe Mayo Clinic website includes an “Experts Answer” page on Infant and Toddler Health where experts address parents’ questions on a variety of topics. This month looks at breast-feeding and weight loss, low milk supply and whether to wake a newborn for feedings.
Read MoreA new study is the first to detail the weight loss patterns of exclusively breastfed newborns, producing an online tool to help pediatricians determine whether exclusively breastfed newborns have lost too much weight in the first days of life.
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