Lactation Counselor Training Course (LCTC) offered completely online for first time ever

In this uncertain time, it can be helpful to remember that we have control over the way we respond to the things we don’t have control over. Healthy Children Project joins individuals, businesses and organizations that have had to adapt to this strange, challenging Covid-19 situation.  “When you face challenges, we have two choices: Let …

New insight into skin-to-skin contact

By Healthy Children Project  Healthy Children Project faculty members Kajsa Brimdyr and Karin Cadwell and colleagues from Sweden have published a new paper in Medical Hypotheses, available this month. The paper, titled “A Plausible Pathway of Imprinted Behaviors: Skin-to-skin Actions of the Newborn Immediately After Birth Follow the Order of Fetal Development and Intrauterine Training of …

Nutrition and Nurture in Infancy and Childhood: Bio-Cultural Perspectives

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 …

Eight Days in Egypt

Post by Cindy Turner-Maffei and Karin Cadwell Last year Dr. Karin Cadwell, Healthy Children Project, Inc. (HCP) Executive Director was thrilled to plan a new project with our Egyptian colleague, Dr. Abla Alalfy. Together with other colleagues from the Egyptian Lactation Consultant Association, “Doctora Abla” and “the Mother of Egypt’s Children”, as she is affectionately …

28 days until the International Breastfeeding Conference!

A new year is almost upon us, and it’s hard to believe that several months have passed since we introduced the 2019 International Breastfeeding Conference here on Our Milky Way. While we’ve been surprised with a few “balmy” days here in Wisconsin this December, butterflies no longer flicker peacefully across a bright sky as I …