All About Breastfeeding Blog
All the latest breastfeeding news and point of viewsQuestions, Comments, Concerns about Breastfeeding – from family and friends.
When you are born into and/or brought up in an environment where breastfeeding is the norm, you may never have to deal with criticism about your decision to begin breastfeeding or your decision to continue breastfeeding past the first year. For the parents who are in...
Ahna Weston, CST – March Newsletter
Ahna Weston is a craniosacral therapist (CST) who lives and works in the West Valley - Surprise. Practitioners of CranioSacral Therapy work hands-on with your body and your nervous system to help re-establish balance and optimum function. We do this by helping to...
FOR HAITI ORPHANS WET NURSING CAN SAVE LIVES
Below is an interesting press release taken from the ILCA Press Room.A new statement issued jointly by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and Pan American Health Organization, reminds relief workers, healthcare professionals, and the public that in an emergency...
Little by little, step by step, day by day.....I continue to work at keeping up with the technology available to us. So, today I finally opened up a Facebook account for my business, All About Breastfeeding. I even took pictures of my office and uploaded them onto the...
URGENT CALL FOR HUMAN MILK DONATIONS FOR HAITI INFANTS
January 25th, 2010 - A Call for ActionURGENT CALL FOR HUMAN MILK DONATIONS FOR HAITI INFANTSThe Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA), United StatesBreastfeeding Committee (USBC), International Lactation Consultant Association/United StatesLactation...
Creating Balance
We frequently have a hard time balancing all the different aspects of our lives. When we have a baby, this can sometimes upset the apple cart even more so. In my work with new mothers, one of their greatest stresses is in creating balance in their lives. A key way to...
Human milk and the premature baby
Premature babies arrive earlier than the expected 38 weeks gestation. Thanks to medical advances, babies weighing slightly less than 2 pounds are more likely to survive today.However, because a premature baby's organs are often not fully developed, they are at a...
January 5th, 2010
The New Year often just begs for all kinds of resolutions to be made. If we accomplish the goals we set out to do, we feel really good about ourself. If we fail to meet those goals, some of us beat ourself up for not having accomplished what we set out to do. Soo,...
Stephanie and Sadie – Part 3 – conclusion
Each and every time I work with a mom, it confirms to me the importance of taking the time to hear her story and asking and receiving answers to some very specific questions. Mothers have different medical backgrounds and babies can also come with different problems...
Leslie and baby Sadie – Part 2
As a lactation consultant, I like to spend some time with mothers asking them questions that are directly related to the breastfeeding challenges that they are presenting with. After about 30 minutes of specific questions, here is what I learned.Leslie lost enough...
Lori J Isenstadt IBCLC
Lori is a huge breastfeeding supporter. She has spent much of her adult life working in the maternal health field. Once she became turned on to birth and became a childbirth educator, there was no stopping her love of working with families during their childbearing years.
Lori became a Birth doula and a Postpartum doula and soon became a lactation consultant. She has been helping moms and babies with breastfeeding for over 25 years. Lori founded her private practice, All About Breastfeeding where she meets with moms one on one to help solve their breastfeeding challenges. She helps families prenatally prepare for breastfeeding. Lori also helps when the baby is here and breastfeeding challenges arise.
She is an international speaker, book author and the host of the popular itunes podcast, All About Breastfeeding, the place where the girls hang out. You can reach Lori by email at: aabreastfeeding@hotmail.com