Lodi Lactation

06/16/2025

After age 1, breast milk continues boost your child’s immune system. It can help reduce the severity of any illness. When your child gets sick, breast milk may be the only food or drink they can manage, especially during bouts of vomiting or diarrhea. Nursing is also very comforting to a sick toddler.

Nursing also offers security at a time when your child is developing quickly and the world is an overwhelming place. Breastfeeding remains very important to an older baby or toddler.

The biggest challenge you might face is coping with the opinions of others on how long you should continue to breastfeed. It can be hard for friends and family to understand your choice to continue nursing. Let them know that breastfeeding actually makes life easier for you and your child!

05/22/2025

After nearly 20 years of serving San Joaquin County as an RN and IBCLC at Lodi Lactation, I am retiring and closing the business. It has been my privilege to meet and work with hundreds of dedicated parents and their wonderful babies and I have irreplaceable memories. If you are a current (within the last year) client, please email me with follow up concerns.
Take care and thank you!
Holly Newman RN IBCLC
Lodi Lactation

12/12/2024

Hi all, here's this week's Clinical Question!
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LactFact: There is mounting evidence regarding the importance of breastfeeding well beyond 6 months of age.
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What are the child benefits of breastfeeding after 6 months of age?

Breastfeeding rates drop every month postpartum due to several challenges such as returning to employment, low production, latch issues, pain, etc. Many families ask whether breastfeeding matters after 6 months when infants start complementary feeding.

The article for this week reviews the evidence regarding child benefits of breastfeeding after 6 months.

The authors start by reviewing changes in human milk over time. In general, bioactive factors including IgA, IgG, lysozyme, lactoferrin markedly increase after 12 months postpartum, supporting the health of the breastfed child by preventing infection and supporting growth and development over time.

What are the benefits of breastfeeding beyond 6 months? See the question!

What do you believe are evidence-based child benefits to breastfeeding beyond 6 months? Choose 1 or more:

A. Breastfeeding beyond 6 months is associated with a lower risk of environmental and food allergies compared to breastfeeding for less than 6 months.

B. Infants over 6 months who breastfeed have a lower risk of ear infections than those who don’t.

C. Longer breastfeeding after 6 months is associated with lower blood pressure.

D. Breastfeeding for more than 12 months is associated with a lower risk of dental caries.

E. Breastfeeding after 6 months is associated with a lower risk for childhood hospitalization and respiratory infections.

F. Breastfeeding for more than 6 months reduces the risk of childhood leukemia.

G. Children breastfed for over 12 months have a lower risk of malaria.

Read the answer here: https://lacted.org/questions/child-benefits-of-breastfeeding-after-6-months-of-age/

12/11/2024

Breastfeeding creates moments of closeness that nurture lifelong bonds. How did breastfeeding help your family bond together?

If you found that breastfeeding supported bonding with your babies, consider donating so we can continue offering free and friendly support. https://lll-usa.networkforgood.com

12/11/2024

Did you know: 83% of the many mothers who fall asleep during night feeds do not plan to fall asleep? As the debate over biology versus safe-sleep recommendations rages on, findings like this reinforces the AAP grudging admission that it’s safer to fall asleep with a baby in an adult bed than the much riskier chair or sofa. This 2024 study even mentions advantages of suggesting parents take steps to make their adult bed safer just in case. Coming from the AAP’s top sleep team, that’s really saying something!. Read it here: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/6/e2024066072/199817/Mothers-Falling-Asleep-During-Infant-Feeding

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09/23/2024

I went to LLL meetings when my babies were small, the power of support groups is amazing. Later I became a leader myself, then went on to become an IBCLC( Lactation Consultant).

09/20/2024

La Leche League USA helps parents, families, and communities to breastfeed, chestfeed, and human milk feed their babies through parent-to-parent support. LLL USA encourages, informs, educates, supports, and promotes the use of human milk and the intimate relationship and development that comes from....

09/20/2024

When discussing lactation, the health effects of human milk often get top billing, but nursing gives children much more than calories and immune-boosting ingredients. Nursing provides sensory stimulation that enhances infant neurodevelopment.[1] It is one of baby’s first social interactions. The s...

09/20/2024

Good to know when considering breast reduction surgery.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37845550/?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20240920 #:~:text=We%20found%20that%20women%20who,breastfeeding%20success%20rate%20of%2062%25.

This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .