Lactation by Lisa

06/24/2024

Please sign if you have a moment. Aetna wants to take away the extended codes for a lactation consultants time with patients.

If we do not fight these changes they will happen. We have nothing to lose by objecting and everything to gain if we are able to make a difference. Please sign the petition! 

05/02/2024

03/13/2024

Looking for donor milk for a couple mamas

02/26/2023

Looking for breastfeeding support in your home? Click on the link for more info on how I can help. 🥰

[email protected] 805-235-5790 Lactation Services provided in the comfort of your own home. I will address any issues that you have, and will provide hands on assistance, resources and referrals, education, baby's weights & assessment of milk transfer and latch, pumping, in addition to addressin...

02/23/2023

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Coi1fxGPxaM/?igshid=OTA3YzJiYTA=

349 Likes, 37 Comments - Skilled Lactation Solutions () on Instagram: "As a Lactation Consultant, we do more than latch babies. We help families feed bottles and formula too. One of the things that always shocks families is when we go over how to safely prepare a formula bo...

02/20/2023

https://www.thelancet.com/series/breastfeeding-2023

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02/07/2023

Looking for an alternative to a hospital birth? Want to know your options?
Come hear about the Midwifery Model of care! For low risk moms-birthing options for Home births and Birth Center Births!
Tours and Open house every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at 5 pm. Call 805-548-0606 and RSVP or just show up! We’d love to meet you!
Also ongoing Postpartum Support Group every 1&3rd Thursday of the month at 1O am. Run by an IBCLC and a Postpartum doula!! Free to community! Come make new friends. Children and dads welcome too!!

11/15/2022

Wonderful info on supporting families with breastfeeding and sleep

Tulare-Kings Breastfeeding Coalition Lunch and Learn November 2022Presented by Christine Staricka, BS, IBCLC, RLC, CE, FILCA

07/26/2022

We need to change our thinking around this. Babies were comfort nursing longggg before pacifiers existed.

So babies aren’t using you as a pacifier. They’re using pacifiers as you.

And I’m not hating on pacis - I’m simply trying to adjust our outlook on comfort nursing.

There’s a reason why babies have a strong instinct to suckle - its biologically normal to nurse for comfort.

Background b**b art by my dear friend,

03/01/2022

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220131-the-science-of-safe-and-healthy-baby-sleep

Sleep regressions aren't real. Night wakes are normal, and protect against SIDS. And 12 hours of sleep isn't a gold standard. Here's what scientists want us to know about baby sleep.

01/02/2022

01/02/2022

Feed frequently to make milk. There are times when it's just not worth moving the b**b away from the baby. Periods of increased breastfeeding signal to the breast to increase production because the infant has some big stuff going on. You literally need to go with the flow. ⁠
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You can invest a lot of thinking into the Why of the increased feeding but looking at it as a problem to be solved is considering it from entirely the wrong perspective. Because you are actually observing a problem being solved. ⁠
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Breastfeeding is not really something you do to your child. It is something the baby does with the breast. Your thinking brain really just gets in the way. Babies really only need us to facilitate access to the b**b. ⁠
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Our society has damaged breastfeeding knowledge so badly that we live in anticipation of it failing. We look for signs it is not working and view nearly all behaviour as indicators of breastfeeding going wrong. We don't trust our breasts and we don't trust our babies. ⁠
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Breastfeeding has had some bad PR since formula marketing began. The advertising industry knows exactly which buttons to press and anxiety about supply is top of the list for breastfeeding parents. Lack of confidence is much more common than lack of milk. But one of the major causes of low supply is lack of breastfeeding! ⁠
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The goal of going as long as possible between breastfeeding is the biggest barrier to milk production. Offering the breast first is the best course of action, whatever woke or disturbed the baby in the first place. It doesn't matter what the problem is when you have a universal solution always available. ⁠
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Overfeeding breastfed babies is not a thing. Overfeeding bottle fed babies is a serious problem but - BREASTFEEDING IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TO BOTTLE FEEDING. ⁠
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Breastfeed as often as they take it and you will make enough, they will take enough and you can trust it. Just as human mothers have for millennia. Breastfeeding didn't suddenly break 100 or 200 years ago. We broke breastfeeding because we forgot how it works while everyone was distracted by the bright shininess of bottles and artificial milk in advertising.