This is Gabriella. She’s my youngest daughter, and she turned 4 in December. Two weeks after her 4th birthday, Gabriella underwent a 3-hour craniofacial surgery to resolve a rare birth defect. Two pediatric neurosurgeons and a pediatric plastic surgeon cut open my little girl’s head in an incision that wrapped from ear to ear. They…
This post is taken directly from an assignment for a class toward fulfillment of my Master of Public Health, Environmental Influences on Human Health. I seek to educate about dioxins, which are found in very high concentrations in human breastmilk. Dioxin exposure (perhaps in utero) has been shown to have a profound effect on mammary…
Let me begin this post by saying that many of my colleagues are hesitant to suggest that a mother consider eliminating one or more foods from her diet; they are worried that “one more thing” will make a mother not want to breastfeed her baby. My perspective is a little different, because when my babies…
As an IBCLC in private practice, I am sometimes asked for solutions when a breastfed baby refuses to take a bottle after his mother has begun regularly separating for a return to work or school. This dilemma rouses an emotional response in me, because I experienced it to varying degrees with each of my three…
In April of 2011, Best for Babes unveiled a new website, and I was thrilled to be the first guest for the “Making Sense of the Science” blog section. My article on vitamin D and breastfeeding has caused quite a stir on Facebook fan pages where its link was posted, such as The Leaky Boob…
My son was a few weeks from his 3rd birthday, and lingering congestion and a cough weren’t passing. He started running a fever and was nursing non-stop, which was starting to wear me a bit thin, since, at that point in my pregnancy (about 30 weeks), there wasn’t much milk and my breasts were very,…
When my first baby, now 8, was about 3 months old, I shared a recital with my clarinet quartet. We had our customary, post-performance gathering of celebration at one of the guys’ homes afterward, and, of course Anna was with me – I went nowhere without her. I was the only woman in the group…
I bet you didn’t think this blog was going to go below the belt! I’m here, in your baby’s diaper, to talk a little about red tushies and green poop. I know a bit about this because when my first December baby was born, her red tushie and green poop fit in with the Christmas…
You’re trying to not like me. You’re mad at me because I’m calling breastfeeding normal, and you didn’t breastfeed. Or you breastfed for awhile, it got complicated, so you weaned to artificial baby milk. Or you pumped your milk and fed it to your baby in a bottle, which wasn’t actually breastfeeding but was human…
Welcome to dianaibclc.com, and to normal, like breathing. I’m Diana. Please read my about and disclaimer/disclosure pages. My blog is going to make some strong assertions about how we feed our babies. You may or may not agree with my assertions, but please be assured that I am not attacking you, your choices, or your…
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