Healthy Children Project Center for Breastfeeding
I just finished watching the Happy Birth Day series, a vignette of real birth experiences produced and filmed by Healthy Children Project’s Dr. Kajsa Brimdyr, PhD, CLC and Emmy nominated producer Judy Blatchford with my two- and four- year-old-daughters… I am so excited to give birth again! For me, watching these mothers, their partners and …
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–This post is part of our 10-year anniversary series “Breastfeeding is…”— Breastfeeding is eco-friendly. Planetary protection has never been more crucial, and the undeniable relationship between planetary health and human health has never been more evident. In November 2022, world leaders, policy-makers and delegates from nearly 200 countries attended the COP27 UN climate summit, held …
Near the Amtrak Station in Milwaukee, there used to be an encampment created by people without housing. It went by the moniker “Tent City”. My kids and I used to pass by it often; and they had a lot of questions about the space and the people who stayed there. I remember doing my best …
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October 2 to 8 marks National Midwifery Week. National Midwifery Week was created by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care. Two of my three births were attended by midwives. My first birth in a hospital attended by an obstetrician might best be described using words like chaos, …
Eight years ago, Dennis Gaynor Jr.’s son Samuel was born at 28 weeks gestation weighing 1 lb. 6 oz. Mr. Gaynor was encouraged to hold his baby skin-to-skin during their hospital stay to help improve his baby’s blood oxygen levels, sleep, temperature, breastfeeding and weight gain. Kangaroo Care was a new concept for Mr. Gaynor. …