Featured Article Archive

By Keren Epstein-Gilboa PhD, Med, BSN, RN, FACCE, LCCE, IBCLC, RLC

Breastfeeding has received immense attention in the medical community and increasing interest in the field of psychology and social work. The majority of research demonstrates that breastfeeding is essential for normal physiological development, while paying only minimal attention to the contribution of nursing to psychological development. This book fills in the gap by providing important insight into the development of relationships and interactions in breastfeeding families.

Mentoring Our Future covers everything from the history of mentoring to creating a mentoring program to dealing with a stalled mentoring relationship.  As IBCLC candidates have rapidly increased, so has the need for hands on experience under qualified mentors.  This book is invaluable in helping set up a mentoring program.  Author Denise Altman has focused on the elements of mentoring and creating a mentoring program, rather than trying to tell you what to teach, as this information is constantly evolving and varies with each mentor and each learner.

Excerpts:

By Nikki Lee, RN, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, CST (Appl. Cert.)

Mother and baby breastfeeding issues do not always fit neatly into a management protocol.  Sometimes you have to think outside the box and look at complementary and alternative therapies to solve problems.  In Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Breastfeeding Therapy, author Nikki Lee describes a variety of complementary and alternative therapy techniques that may help breastfeeding mothers and babies with issues not easily resolved with current lactation management protocol.  By tapping into other therapies, Lee has found a multitude of new techniques to add to her breastfeeding toolkit.

By Marian Leonard Tompson

With Melissa Clark Vickers

Excerpt:

During the past 50 years, I can’t tell you how often a mother or father has come up to me at an LLL gathering and admitted that as a result of being in La Leche League, they were parenting their children so differently than they had originally expected to and so differently from the way they had been brought up. “I’ll kill myself if they don’t turn out” was a common refrain.