Healthy Children Project Center for Breastfeeding
A friend of mine works in a healthcare building; her office, windowless. Stark white walls frame the shiny tiled floors in the also windowless laboratory that surrounds her office. Rectangular fluorescent lighting looms eerily overhead. Working in this space for the majority of her waking hours amounts to constant longing for sunshine and an overall …
Elyse Blair, RN, BSN, ANLC, IBCLC , Healthy Children Project Faculty Emerita, has spent most of her almost 50 year nursing career helping the smallest and most medically complex infants. Blair worked as a labor and delivery nurse for the first several years of her career, but she was always curious about the babies who …
By Cindy Turner-Maffei, MA, ALC, IBCLC Several of Healthy Children Project’s faculty members were delighted to travel to the Lake District in England to attend and present at the “Nutrition and Nurture in Infancy and Childhood: Bio-Cultural Perspectives” conference, held June 10 to 12, 2019. [The location of the conference varies, occurring in the UK …
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When you hear Dr. Gill Thomson talk about birth trauma, or when you learn how poorly the U.S. scores on the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) assessment, or when you witness maternal child health advocates reluctant to acknowledge the effects of racism, it’s easy to feel stunned and helpless; like the work we’re doing is …
A small group of Healthy Children Project faculty were honored to attend and present at the University of Central Lancashire, Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN) conference in lovely Grange-over-Sands, England last week. (For highlights of last year’s MAINN conference, visit this page). The MAINN conference has been held not only in the …