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Children’s Rights in Hospital

13 May, 2022 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

The 13th of May marks the occasion of the International Day of the Hospitalized Child, so in this article, we would like to talk about the rights of hospitalized children. The hospitalization of a child can be a shock to families and their children. Additionally, if you are breastfeeding and/or have other children, this can be extremely difficult to manage. There are international agreements that protect hospitalized children and their families in this situation. The rights of hospitalized children are included in…

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BLW or pureed food: what does the scientific evidence say?

5 May, 2022 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

BLW or pureed food: is there scientific evidence to support the benefits of one method over the other? If a few weeks ago we wrote about the scientific evidence of BLW in relation to breastfeeding, now we focus on reviewing the published scientific evidence on infant growth and food intake of BLW babies compared to traditional spoon-fed babies. BLW or pureed food One of the biggest fears that both health care providers and families have about BLW is that infants…

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BLW and breastfeeding: what does the scientific evidence say?

1 May, 2022 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

In this post we review what the scientific evidence says about BLW and breastfeeding. The Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) method allows the baby to feed itself in a self-regulated manner by eating autonomously with its hands and avoiding the traditional method of spooning pureed food. The method has multiple benefits compared to the traditional method of spooning pureed food. One of the most important is that it might be more respectful with breastfeeding. There are several published studies that have studied the…

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The “Linguinha” Test: Checking for Tongue-Tie is Law in Brazil

12 March, 2022 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

In 2014, the tongue-tie test was introduced by then-president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff by law according to which it became “mandatory to perform the Protocol for the Evaluation of the Lingual Frenulum in Babies, in all hospitals and maternity wards, in children born in their dependencies”. With this decision, Brazil became the first country in the world to offer this test in all maternity wards. Who created this so-called ‘tongue test’? The author is the Brazilian phono-audiologist Roberta Martinelli, vice-coordinator…

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Induced Lactation: How the Newman-Goldfarb Protocol was Born

10 March, 2022 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

In 2002, the renowned paediatrician Jack Newman and the physician, researcher and IBCLC Lenore Goldfarb laid the groundwork for the Newman-Goldfarb protocol for induced lactation. The goal of their method is to mimic the physiological hormonal situation of pregnancy in order to trigger breast modifications and the postpartum hormonal situation, necessary to achieve milk production and milk let-down. Goldfarb and Newman met in 1999 when the Canadian researcher was looking for a professional to accompany her own lactation induction. The…

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Milk production in women who use nipple shields during lactation

4 March, 2022 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

Recently, a study on the use of nipple shields in women with persistent nipple pain has been published. The study led by Dr Sharon Lisa Perrella, MD, has been published in the journal JOGNNN and under the title “Breast Milk Production in Women who use Nipple Shields for persistent nipple pain”. The article focuses on understanding the association between the use of nipple shields and milk production. It starts from the hypothesis that pain could decrease the ejection reflex and…

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I LactApp Medical Congress

24 February, 2022 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

LactApp invites you to participate in the I LactApp Medical Congress, which will take place on May 25, 26 and 27 under the theme ‘Scientific evidence as a challenge in breastfeeding‘, open to all professionals interested in the field of breastfeeding. It will be a 100% online with more than 40 top level speakers such as the Australian Lisa Amir, editor-in-chief of the International Breastfeeding Journal; the American author Kimberly Seals, co-founder of the Black Breastfeeding Week; Canadian Leonore Goldfarb,…

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Lactation restoration techniques

1 January, 2022 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

Lactation restoration techniques: refusal of the breast by the infant at some point during the breastfeeding journey is a situation that can occur with some frequency. In this context, the mother is likely to interpret this situation as an infant-induced attempt at weaning. When this happens before the age of one year, it is very uncommon that this stems from an infant’s own willingness to stop breastfeeding, but usually, there are rather other underlying causes. Lactation restoration techniques Some of…

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Fasting recommendations for infants and children

11 October, 2021 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

Sometimes it is necessary to perform medical procedures on infants or young children that require to fast beforehand, mainly for procedures under sedation or anesthesia. These procedures include performing certain diagnostic tests that require immobility or are painful, certain treatments or surgical interventions. The main reason for recommending fasting is to avoid bronchoaspiration of regurgitated gastric contents with potentially serious consequences. There are other procedures that do not require to fast before, even though in some practices they are still recommended, but…

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Supplementing Milk in Breastfeeding Babies

30 January, 2019 Alba Padró Comments 0 Comment

Babies often receive supplemental milk during breastfeeding, sometimes with formula and sometimes with breast milk. The introduction of supplemental milk, both, as the form of administration and its content, can affect the feeding of the infant and therefore it is very important to examine thoroughly its real need. In this article, we discuss what supplementing means, when it is needed, and the best options for administering it. What is supplementing? Supplementing means giving variable amounts of milk to a baby…

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