Sex and babies. You almost always have one to make the other. But that’s where the conversation seems to end. There isn’t a lot of discussion about sex during the …
Breast Feeding Positions
The best breast feeding position is the one that is comfortable and effective for you and baby. The most common positions are: CRADLE/CUDDLE Baby lies on your lap, tummy to …
Human Milk Banking
Why did it take so many years for this vital service to return? Even though it is well known in Alberta that human milk is what all babies need to …
Breastfeed in public: anytime, anywhere
Breastfeeding is the biologically normal way to feed human babies. However, negative attitudes towards breastfeeding in public are still a barrier to breastfeeding for many women. Meeting our babies’ most …
Skin-to-Skin: A vital practice
I recently attended the Alberta Breastfeeding Committee’s conference: Infant feeding: Best practice steps for primary preventative care. Over 100 of Alberta’s health care professionals ranging from delivery room nurses to …
Tips for Breastfeeding in Public
1 Practice nursing in front of a mirror. The view from across a room is not the same as when you look down on yourself. Once you see how very …
Resolving Tongue-Tie
On January 31, 2011, my baby was born 7 1/2 weeks premature. Isaiah spent three weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). While he grew and made tentative first …
The Calgary Mothers’ Milk Bank: Jannette Festival, the visionary behind it all
Calgary has some amazing visionary women! One of those women is Jannette Festival, Executive Director of Calgary Mothers’ Milk Bank Association. In September 2010, Jannette Festival RN, IBCLC was working …
Breastfeeding and Public Pools: Success at the Talisman Centre
We are all social creatures at heart. We all want to belong, to be treated as equals and to be respected. We are happiest when we are accepted and supported …
Breastfeeding and the Brain
At birth, our babies are born with a brain one-quarter the size of our adult brains. In the first year of life, our brains nearly double in size. By the …