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This
#WorldBreastfeedingWeek
,
@latrobe
's
@Lisa_H_Amir
shares her best tips for new mothers.
🤱🏻Tongue Tie:
🤱🏼Mastitis:
🤱🏽Nipple Shields:
🤱🏾Alcohol:
🤱🏿Soreness:
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The judge hasn't apologised for ejecting a breastfeeding woman from his court.
So, I've apologised for him (Letter to the ed today)
It's so distressing that women are still being shamed for feeding their child in 2023
#BreastfeedingInPublic
@OzBreastfeeding
@Nishaobgyn
The judge told the jury to put the matter out of mind and focus on the trial.
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#SurfCoast
Women's March on the beach at Torquay nice and early!
@womensmarchaus
Standing up for women's rights at the base of the letter C!
Photo: Rebecca Hosking
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Follow-on/toddler formula is completely unnecessary for children-
@JuliePSmith1
shows that these products contribute more emissions than from infant formula 🤯
#GreenFeedingTool
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Telephone peer support increases breastfeeding duration in Australian first-time mothers.
Results of the RUBY trial just out.
@LTUJudithLumley
@thewomens
@western_health
@MonashHealth
@OzBreastfeeding
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Thanks
@thewomens
for sharing some of my
#breastfeeding
work for
#WBW2022
Celebrating 20 years as the Medical Officer for the Breastfeeding service 😀
Why don't all maternity services employ a breastfeeding medicine doctor?
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Hi, I'm a professor of breastfeeding medicine. You may know me from my smash hit: "Yes, that's normal behaviour for a newborn".
But, have you heard my other track: "Order a breast milk culture & sens if women w mastitis are not getting better/need to be admitted/have recurrence"
Hi, I’m an obstetrician. You may know me from my smash hit,
‘Caesarean section is not the easy way out’ (made famous by Cat Stevens with a slight change of lyrics to ‘The first cut is the deepest’)
But have you heard my other tracks, ‘Garlic is for curry, not your vagina’
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"Using art to raise awareness of breastfed children with medical complexity"
#IntBreastfeedJ
article by
@FeedSleepBond
with paintings by
@leanne_artist
#pediatrics
#NICU
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Indeed. It's time for medical journals to refuse advertisements from infant formula companies.
We do at
#intbreastfeedj
- no ads, & no authors with industry funding
Not a good look, in the context of the last couple of days' news about formula companies and Trump's attack on breastfeeding support,
@bmj_latest
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Fab news for
#Breastfeeding
research in latest
@nhmrc
Ideas grants!
@WendyIngman
Research leader at Breast Biology and Cancer Unit
@BHIresearch
is leading project to understand physiology of
#Mastitis
I'm excited to be CIB on the project, based
@thewomens
and
@latrobe
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Of course, a journal's
#impactfactor
is not the be-all and end-all.
But, very pleased to see the International Breastfeeding Journal's IF rise again!
2019 IF 2.545
#intbreastfeedj
🤱🤱🏿
Huge thanks to our Assoc Eds and all our reviewers 💐💐💐
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Two papers from the TEDDY study show importance of
#breastfeeding
on the infant gut microbiome.
Not so surprising.
Cute photo of baby, with a teddy 😉.
But maybe, next time
@nature
could have an image of breastfeeding on the cover?
On the Nature cover this week: How early life shapes the infant gut microbiome and risk of disease
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New Impact Factors announced today by
#JournalCitationReports
Strong result by
#IntBreastfeedJ
at 3.790
Thank you to our hard-working Assoc Eds and dedicated reviewers 💐💐💐
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Exciting to visit the Australian Red Cross Blood Service Milk Bank in Sydney today! Now up and running in NSW and S. Aust
#donormilk
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As Editor-in-Chief of
#intbreastfeedj
I love to count up where our authors are from every month.
So, in July we had 8 papers with authors from 15 countries: Aust, Canada, China, Finland, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Netherlands, Rwanda, S. Africa, Taiwan, UK, USA, & Vietnam
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Good news! Athletes won’t be separated from their babies if they travel to Tokyo. But … the athlete is not ‘still breastfeeding’ her 3 month old , she is simply ‘
#breastfeeding
’, yes?
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Thanks
@Prof_AmyBrown
: we don't need to pressure families, policy makers need to support
#breastfeeding
.
Breastfeeding linked to higher GCSE results: how to understand the nuance behind the numbers – and lack of support for parents via
@ConversationUK
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Just published this with
@JuliePSmith1
🤱🏾🤱🏿
We don't know if breastfeeding is rising or falling in Australia. That's bad for everyone via
@ConversationEDU
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Alert for families and health workers in the US:
potentially fatal bacteria in Gerber infant formula.
Yes, this is still happening in May 2023 because powdered infant formula is not a sterile product
Gerber recalling infant formula because of Cronobacter sakazakii contamination
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Study from Denmark confirms that even in developed countries infants who are not breastfed have higher risk of infections in first year of life:
Breastfeeding and Infections in Early Childhood: A Cohort Study
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#ProtectBreastfeeding
@PhilBakerNZ
starts the 2023 series
@TheLancet
launch by reminding us if the important
#breastfeeding
series in 2016
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Check out this lived experience special issue!
Powerful article about milk donation after loss in Israel - "Whose milk was it, really? ..."
Well timed: tomorrow is World Day of Human Milk Donation (19 May)
#DonorMilk
please spread the word about this lived experience special issue
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Health professionals - please don't rely on drug company information abt safety of meds in pregnancy or breastfeeding.
New article in Dec issue of
@AJofGP
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Just when I was abt to post a
#GrumpyEditor
comment after spending yet another Sunday working on people's sloppy reference lists . . .
I come across this heart-warming comment from an author
#LifeOfAJournalEditor
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Poster session
#MAINN2023
Emma Biggar’s poster shows protocol for scoping review abt
#breastfeeding
for mothers w visual impairment. 12 publications currently being analysed
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Benefits of the vaccine for
#breastfeeding
mother & child likely outweigh possible risks.
At present, the only vaccines *not* considered safe in lactation are smallpox and yellow fever.
Read ABM's newly released Statement on Considerations for COVID-19 Vaccination in Lactation:
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New Cochrane review from
@sahmriAU
concludes avoiding bottles in
#NICU
improves
#breastfeeding
outcomes
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Thanks for this recognition! 🤓
My research, clinical work, teaching, advocacy all revolve around
#breastfeeding
Thanks to
@LTUJudithLumley
and
@thewomens
for supporting me!
As part of National Breastfeeding Month (August 2021), we congratulate Dr. Lisa Helen Amir [Lisa_H_Amir] of La Trobe University -- Recognized as an Expertscape World Expert in Breast Feeding.
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Dr Melissa Bartick
@BFMedicine
webinar- no confirmed infant deaths from covid19. Small number of deaths in US and Europe but covid19 may be incidental. We know
#breastfeeding
saves lives, so not bfing has higher risk
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How does breastfeeding help the environment? Great slide from Britta Boutry at the launch of
#GreenFeedingTool
#PLANET
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Great news! Perinatal Society of ANZ to end sponsorship by infant formula companies 😀
Kudos to the
@mypsanz
Board who has made the brave and responsible decision to revise its sponsorship policy and no longer accept funding from formula companies. A position taken by
@MidwivesACM
many years ago. It's a tough financial decision but the right one!
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COVID-19 vaccination – "Breastfeeding women can receive the COVID-19 vaccine" - in over 50 languages!
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Exciting news from
#intbreastfeedj
. . .
We have our first Impact Factor from Journal Citation Reports.
Drum roll . . . 2.300!
Makes us highest ranked breastfeeding journal! (I know it's just one metric, but still!)
Thanks, Editorial Board & our wonderful reviewers
#openaccess
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Just in case anyone hadn't heard this message ...
Women with COVID-19 can
#breastfeed
if they wish to do so! Just follow these guidelines by
@WHO
Visit the WABA website for more information:
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Last presentation today at
#LCANZ
@DrKarleenG
‘Supporting breastfeeding as sexed care work to achieve gender equality’. We have to start counting
#breastfeeding
as work!
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Yes,
#breastfeeding
education for health profs needs improvement. They don't know what they don't know!
#wbtiUK2016
Doctors: GPs, paediatricians, dieticians, who work alongside parents, would benefit from enhanced curriculum on infant feeding.
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Surely a judge would know that that it is legal to breastfeed anywhere anytime? Thanks for speaking up
@Nishaobgyn
🤱🏻
#BreastfeedingInPublic
The woman was feeding her child while observing a matter in the Victorian County Court on Thursday when the judge addressed her directly.
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Feeling happy about this today!
Now showing 150 publications on PubMed😎
(Yes, there are other "Lisa Amir"s - but the LHs are all mine)
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New article I've co-authored with Alyce Wilson and Caroline Homer, published today:
Want to breastfeed? These five things will make it easier via
@ConversationEDU
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Another neglected area is painful breastfeeding. Yesterday I helped a woman w nipple vasospasm and someone with infected eczema- not rocket science but unfamiliar to most clinicians
“Women weren’t included in clinical trials until the 1990s. While we make up 70% of chronic pain patients, 80% of pain medication has been tested only on men “
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Aug 2023 was busy month for
#IntBreastfeedJ
12 articles published
Authors from 13 countries
Always
#OpenAccess
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ICYMI blog from
@bmj_latest
discussing lack of evidence for "posterior tongue-tie" and "lip-tie" as causes of
#breastfeeding
difficulties:
Posterior tongue tie: the internet phenomenon driving a lucrative private industry -
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#LifeOfAJournalEditor
"Dear sir ..."
Dear author, really ...??
I started
#IntBreastfeedJ
in 2006 - you'd think people would realise not all editors are male by now?
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We love receiving new submissions at
#IntBreastfeedJ
but remember we have a policy of not publishing research funded by infant formula manufacturers
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Happy dance! 💃
2020 Journal Impact Factors are out:
#IntBreastfeedJ
is now 3.461!
Thanks to all our lovely reviewers and Assoc Editors for your hard work💐💐💐
@BioMedCentral
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We don’t accept advertising from formula manufacturers at
#intbreastfeedj
Medical journals need to consider whether to continue promoting infant formula by accepting advertising like this
Infant formula advertising in medical journals: a cross-sectional study (and struggle to publish)
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Once again, for the people down the back . . . "If you are breastfeeding, you can have the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines. You do not need to stop breastfeeding after vaccination."
#CovidVaccine
#breastfeeding
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Exactly. There was never a need for toddler formula; just a marketing ploy for formula manufacturers
We’re calling for an end to aggressive marketing of toddler milk formulas, as new research with
@Deakin
shows some products are overpriced, with more sugar and less key nutrients than regular milk.
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"That segment was filmed 46 years ago, and it's hard to believe some people still take issue with seeing a mom breastfeed out in the open."
#BreastfeedingInPublic
Buffy Sainte-Marie shares what led to her openly breastfeeding on 'Sesame Street' in 1977
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Let’s fund support for breastfeeding 🤱🏻 And breastfeeding research, please!
The interface between maternal diet, breastfeeding & infant gut microbiome. Let’s fund
#evidencebased
interventions
@MercyPerinatal
#GOU2018
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Day 3
#MAINN2023
Joy on their faces as Marica Bettinelli and
@HelenGrayIBCLC
find a qualitative researcher to work with on WBTI work
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Good news from the UK
#InfantFeedingSurvey
scheduled!
Now, Australia - it's more than 10 years, we need an
#InfantFeedingSurvey
too!
@healthgovau
@_PHAA_
@OzBreastfeeding
@JuliePSmith1
This was another piece of brilliant news to wake up to! Data is essential to understand experiences, help researchers and guide impactful policies.
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April 2021 in
#IntBreastfeedJ
7 papers with authors from 8 countries: Colombia, Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, Sri Lanka, Spain, UK & USA
#OpenAccess
Topics: DHS, COVID-19, peer support, SkintoSkin, training, barriers and
@DrAimeeGrant
's Breasts and the city!
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Dr Phillip Baker speaking now on the food systems transformation agenda -
#Breastfeeding
often missing in these documents
@PhilBakerNZ
#FoodSystems4SDGS
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No, no, no! Ad for toddler formula at tram stop outside The Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne.
@thewomens
is a
#BabyFriendly
hospital - should be a formula ad free zone!
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May update from
#intbreastfeedj
I keep saying how busy we've been - but 17 publications in the month of May 2020!!
Authors from 21 countries. First time we have authors from Finland, Lithuania and Qatar.
Thanks to all our reviewers and Assoc Eds on your hard work 💐😀
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Clinical note after
#Breastfeeding
clinic
@thewomens
.
Don't underestimate importance of maternal sleep/anxiety/etc on nipple & breast
#pain
.
"I love your triangle article" said the patient's partner!
Thanks
@Lester_E_Jones
for all your pain know-how!
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I'm trying really hard to be a kind journal editor, but really - why would a female author send me a cover letter starting "Dear sirs"??
#GrumpyJournalEditor
#LifeOfAJournalEditor
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Whoopee! Trial comparing dosages of domperidone will commence
@thewomens
and in Adelaide. Well done
@LukeGrzeskowiak
!
Thrilled to have received $1 Million in
@nhmrc
funding to improve medication treatments for managing low breast milk supply in mothers of preterm infants with
@RGrivell
@Lisa_H_Amir
@Lisa_Smithers
@RobsInstitute
@WendyIngman
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This is must-read from
@DrTomori
explaining the big picture about
#InfantFeeding
.
We need to understand that mostly it's a systems issue, and not an individual's responsibility when
#breastfeeding
is a struggle
#WBW2022
It’s Day 7
#WorldBreastfeedingWeek
#WBW2022
#NationalBreastfeedingMonth
What is a "normal human infant"? Who defines it? And if/how lactation is part of their care? This is where we get to colonialism, capitalism & biomedicalization. Settle in. 🧵 1/
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The
#MothersMilkTool
helps make visible the value of
#breastfeeding
at national and global levels, and how much is lost if country policies, healthcare, work, and community settings are not breastfeeding-friendly. Check out the tool:
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First day of breastfeeding symposium in Barcelona today. Another full day talking tomorrow! Lots of interest in
#mastitis
! Lots of discussion with the audience. Thanks for all the translating, Kika!
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Thanks for highlighting this
@normanswan
Back in 2007, I explained the dangers of "toddler formula" to the *Parliamentary Inquiry into the Health Benefits of Breastfeeding* in Sydney on behalf of
@_PHAA_
It's the ultra-processed milk powder intentionally marketed as a follow-on to breastfeeding or infant formulae. But the evidence suggests toddler or transition milks are unnecessary at best and harmful at worst.
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Another addition to our
#Breastfeeding
and
#COVID19
collection in
#intbreastfeedj
.
Lubbe et al. Literature review for clinical practice.
Includes downloadable posters encouraging staff to keep mother & baby together and enable breastfeeding
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March 2021 in
#IntBreastfeedJ
8 new papers;
Authors from 15 countries;
#COVID19
continues to disrupt
#breastfeeding
practices;
2 papers added to our ongoing COVID-19 collection: hospital guidelines from Brazil and milk bank statement from S. E. Asia
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On World Day of Human Milk Donation it's important to acknowledge that milk banks need to care for mothers unable to donate their milk as well as donors.
Recent interview study with
@lifebloodRnD
@barbaramasser
@LTUJudithLumley
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Breastfeeding support only offered in one fifth of Australian hospitals, which means new mums like Sharni slip through the cracks via
@ABCaustralia
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Call for stronger regulation of 'exploitative' formula industry
@RACGP
@RACGPPresident
@JuliePSmith1
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Well, that was a busy
#WBW2022
! 😁
Thanks
@thewomens
@LTUresearchers
@GOLDLactation
@abcnews
Links below in the thread /1
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Fabulous mammary gland images showing contraction of alveoli cells & ducts in response to oxytocin (in mice).
Significance statement made me laugh though:
"The mammary gland is functional for only a brief period of a female’s lifetime."
Plenty of female humans lactate for yrs!
Out today in
@PNASNews
we reveal how Ca2+ signals coordinate the flow of milk from secretory alveoli to the nipple during lactation A wonderful team effort by
@Stevenson_alex2
@DrYassum
@tenealestewart
@DrNickCondon
@BethLloydLewis
@LabEthan
@_adamewing
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What happened in March 2023 in
#IntBreastfeedJ
?
6 papers published w authors from 8 countries: Australia, Germany, Italy, S. Africa, Norway, Uganda, UK, & USA
Incl study protocol, case study (nipple adenoma), COVID study, surveys 🤱🏽🤱🏿
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The reason behind all this is heart-breaking. Breastfeeding rates in China have plummeted. Support for mothers to breastfeed is needed - not Aussie powdered milk. Thousands of food miles instead of zero miles 😢
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I love these photos!
@thewomens
@OzBreastfeeding
Photography Project Shows Mothers Breastfeeding Their Toddlers And Children | Bored Panda via
@boredpanda
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This article discusses recent publications on microbiome in preterm infants receiving human milk fortifier. Too many unanswered questions at the moment. Priority should be given to supporting mothers’ own milk production 🤱🏻
Supporting mothers in pumping and storing their breastmilk “is probably something that needs a lot more attention,” according to University of Manitoba (
@UManitoba
) researcher
@MeghanAzad
.
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Mastitis is a common & distressing problem for pp women. We found early (<1m), but not later (1-6m),
#mastitis
, assoc w shorter
#breastfeeding
& abrupt discontinuation in Norwegian MoBa pop-based dataset. Mastitis was assoc w poorer maternal mental health.
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Good to see
@NEJM
raising issue of need for more research into
#medicines
for
#breastfeeding
women - but we do know that almost all meds are compatible with breastfeeding. V. few meds contraindicated. Many women need meds postpartum.
More than half of new mothers take one or more medications in the months after delivery. But
#healthcare
providers often lack the evidence they need to counsel
#breastfeeding
women on medications’ potential effects on lactation, on mothers, or on their babies.
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Drs Carmela Baeza, Jayne Charlamb,
@BfWendy
& I have been working on this Practice Pointer for
@bmj_latest
*Identifying the cause of breast and nipple
#pain
during
#lactation
* - 🤱🏽🤱🤱🏿
Direct link here
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Mary Renfrew - fab slide of people writing abt history/money/power & politics and
#breastfeeding
- photo of Mary w Maureen Minchin & Chloe Fisher on speaking tour in Canada
#MAINN2023
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#Breastfeeding
and COVID-19 vaccines
Panel will be chaired by the wonderful
@Nishaobgyn
I'm on the panel with
@DrKarleenG
and
@DrNinaBerry
@LTUresearchers
@thewomens
ABA is holding a LIVE online panel to discuss breastfeeding in the context of COVID-19 and considerations around the vaccine for women who are breastfeeding.
Event will on Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 7:00pm AEST.
Register here
#COVID19
#COVID19Vaccination
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Antenatal milk expression can seem effective in helping mothers reach their breastfeeding goals - but many pregnant women are unable to express colostrum, so
#AntenatalMilkExpression
needs to be tested in RCTs before being promoted to the general public
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Great commentary by
@AlyceNWilson
@CarolineHomer
@inquisitiveGyn
& colleagues! Also remember that some maternity providers will be postpartum & breastfeeding their own children. We need to continue quality care for pregnant/breastfeeding women while looking after the workforce
Caring for the carers - supporting the emotional, mental and physical needs of maternity care providers during COVID-19. Our commentary for
@womenandbirth
@BurnetInstitute
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First presentation for second day of
#BMNANZ
conference in Melbourne with Dr Robyn Powell
@milkymedics
Empowering doctors to empower breastfeeding women
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Catch up w Sept in
#IntBreastfeedJ
🤱🏿🤱🏼🤱
9 articles w authors fr 10 countries
Australia, China, Iceland, Iran, Nigeria, Poland, Sweden, Thailand, UK, USA
Can music affect fat content of
#HumanMilk
?
Challenges of
#breastfeeding
late preterm twins?
& more
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Galipeau: leading cause
#breastfeeding
cessation - perceived insufficient milk
Self-efficacy is key factor in milk supply confidence
#ilca17
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ICYMI last week
Clinical
#breastfeeding
practice pointer in the BMJ on identifying the cause of breast & nipple pain
Many thanks to my patients over the years who gave permission for the photographs
Here's the direct link:
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"A key recommendation is to position breastfeeding support as both a public health and a climate justice issue that is relevant for a just transition."
Yes! The importance of
#Breastfeeding
for global health needs to be recognised more widely.
Infant feeding and the energy transition: A comparison between decarbo... Great to see the sustainability argument used to promote breastfeeding. Well done
@thelovelymaeve
@Pleahy_w
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Excellent report from Prof Helen Ball's 'Eyes on the Baby' project: preventing
#SUDI
by involving all these groups - police, social workers, childminders, pharmacists ...
Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) to support user engagement & embed SUDI prevention in everyday practice
Following the launch of the ‘Eyes on the Baby’ report, Durham's Professor Helen Ball explains why a multi-agency approach by
#LocalAuthorities
,
#EarlyYears
and family-facing services, is needed to ensure
#SUDI
prevention.
@NIHR_ARC_NENC
Read more 👉
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@KamGhadimiMD
@camwolfe
@SwamyGeeta
Yes, "SARS-CoV-2–Specific Antibodies in Breast Milk After COVID-19 Vaccination of Breastfeeding Women"
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Expressing breast milk not linked to early labour for diabetic mums, researchers say via
@ABCNews
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Here I am
#MeAt20
at home in Glen Iris wearing batik jacket bought in Bali, posing for my friend Barbara
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?Breastfeeding after anaesthesia
"Can breastfeed as normal as soon as awake and alert"
See excellent guideline below
#OpenAccess
Thanks for sharing
@BfWendy
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Interesting secondary analysis from Austria about passive smoking:
Non-breastfed children had poorer lung function at 6-9 yrs than breastfed children. Not related to SES.
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