The women I interviewed took classes, read books, practiced with dolls, and met with lactation experts.
At Wolynn's practice, all six of the pediatricians on staff are also certified lactation consultants.
The fat content of raw milk varies with cow breed, feed, and stage of lactation among other factors.
Already in effect, he said, is a provision of that law that gives nursing mothers lactation areas inside the workplace.
That's because lactation is probably the only bodily function for which modern medicine has almost no training, protocol or knowledge.
La Leche League meetings are well attended and everyone has a breast feeding fanatic friend or knows a pushy lactation consultant.
In fact, nobody seems to know how many African American international board certified lactation consultants (IBCLCs) there are in the United States.
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There were rumors of another but no one could confirm that she was indeed an IBCLC as opposed to a lactation consultant.
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When women have trouble breast-feeding, they're either prodded to try harder by well-meaning lactation consultants or told to give up by doctors.
Tanya Lieberman, a lactation consultant who writes about scientific research for breast-feeding advocacy organization Best for Babes, says she's "a little confused" by the results.
It is the largest gathering of lactation consultants in the world.
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When she noticed Anika's belly swollen and strange, frothy green poops, Reese called lactation consultants, who told her all babies have gas and to be patient.
She called another lactation consultant, who listened patiently to her story and immediately offered this tip: pump some milk, throw it away, and put Anika to her breast.
Perhaps they'd prescribe a galactogogue, a drug that promotes lactation.
The Internal Revenue Service announced today that you can use pre-tax flexible spending account money to buy a breast pump and related lactation supplies, reversing a stingy position.
The lactation consultant explained Reese was producing too much foremilk, which is full of sugar and can irritate a baby's delicate gut if she gets too much of it.
Health insurance companies need to reimburse doctors for the time they spend attending to breast-feeding issues, to cover galactogogues, and to cover donor breast milk for women with lactation failure.
When women have trouble breast-feeding, they are often confronted with two divergent directives: well-meaning lactation consultants urge them to try harder, while some doctors might advise them to simply give up and go the bottle-and-formula route.
It's hard work, really hard work, often requiring tremendous resources (lactation consultants, machines that make you feel like a dairy cow, shields and all sorts of bizarre contraptions) that can take weeks, even months, to get right.
Doctors practicing today -- especially those treating pregnant women and new mothers --need to know that lactation failure really does happen, and to be familiar with the potential causes of it, so that they can intervene early.
But even Wolynn, who is also a certified lactation consultant, seemed skeptical when I related Kelly's tale -- usually women struggle because they haven't had enough support in the first few days after giving birth, in his experience.
Life expectancy in Cameroon is less than 48, one of the major causes is HIV. 7% of women are HIV positive and hundreds of thousands of babies contract the virus during lactation, when the risk of infection is 30%.
This leaves breast-feeding problems either to the rare family physicians, or more commonly to lactation consultants who can assist with technical issues -- improving the baby's latch and such -- but can't write prescriptions, check hormone levels or offer a diagnosis.
Because the complexities of lactation failure are so little studied and so often misunderstood, women can often feel that they are at fault, rather feeling like they are suffering from a medical issue for which they need and deserve professional help.
The moms who watched (and, sometimes, cried through) the elevating Oprah clip were more likely to nurse and hug their babies -- suggesting heightened levels of oxytocin, which cues lactation -- than another group who laughed along with a video of Jerry Seinfeld telling jokes.
Dr. Amy Evans, a pediatrician and medical director of the Center for Breastfeeding Medicine in Fresno, California, says that as many as 5% of all women have underlying medical conditions that prevent or seriously hinder lactation: hypoplasia, thyroid problems, hormonal imbalances and insufficient glandular tissue, among others.
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