Category Archives: Booby Traps

Booby Traps Series: Did your child care provider support breastfeeding? It makes a difference.

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on November 20, 2012

This post is the 63rd in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. Last week a mother in Toronto spoke out after being told that she couldn’t nurse her twins in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged breastfeeding child care, breastfeeding report card, call to action to support breastfeeding, CDC, cdc breastfeeding report card, Centers for Disease Control, child care and breastfeeding, city of toronto, day care, Michelle Obama, state child care regulations on breastfeeding, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, surgeon general's call to action to support breastfeeding | 4 Comments

Booby Traps Series: Let’s give thanks for this year’s Booby Trap-busting developments

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on November 19, 2012

This is the 62nd in a series of posts on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. You might think that writing each week about Booby Traps would make one feel pretty discouraged. But I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Inspire, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged ab 2386, affordable heatlh care act, american academy of pediatrics breastfeeding policy, baby friendly hospital initiative, black breastfeeding 360, Black Mother's Breastfeeding Association, Blacktating, Booby Traps, breastfeeding, breastfeeding discrimination, Breastfeeding USA, celebrity event, Centers for Disease Control, donor milk, employer accommodations, exclusive breastfeeding, formula gift bags, Healthy Child Healthy World, HMBANA, Jenna Elfman, jerry brown, kaiser permanente, Kelly Preston, Laila Ali, latch on new york, who growth charts, WIC, workplace pumping | Leave a comment

Booby Traps Series: Our checklist for avoiding the Booby Traps in the early days of breastfeeding at home

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on November 14, 2012

This is the 61st post in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. For the last few months I’ve been writing about Booby Traps in the early days of breastfeeding. As I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged academy of breastfeeding medicine, american academy of pediatrics, bed sharing, Booby Traps, co-sleeping, dentists, dr. thomas hale, formula marketing, Infant Risk Center, jaundice, pediatric residency curriculum on breastfeeding, pharmacists, tongue-tie, world health organization growth charts | Leave a comment

Booby Traps Series: Results from our formula gifts survey! Check out the trends we found in your answers.

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on November 5, 2012

This is the 60th post in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. Recently we asked you to share your experience with formula “gift bags” on our survey. We thank the over … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggressive Formula Marketing, Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged ban the bags, Booby Traps, breastfeeding, formula company gift bags, formula discharge bags, formula marketing, motherhood maternity, obstetricians, pediatricians | 4 Comments

Booby Traps Series: Dispensing bad advice at the pharmacy counter

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on November 2, 2012

This post is the 59th in a series of posts on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. You may know that nursing moms often get poor advice from providers about medications, but did you … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Booby Traps, Main Content | Tagged Booby Traps, breastfeeding and medications, dr. thomas hale, Infant Risk Center, lactmed, medications and mothers' milk, Melissa Bartick, monica akus, pharmacists breastfeeding advice | Leave a comment

98% of Babies Are Breastfed in Bangladesh — Does That Mean There Are No Booby Traps?

By Annie Urban | Posted on October 28, 2012

According to the WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding, 98% of babies in Bangladesh are breastfed and the average age of weaning is 33 months. Dig even deeper and you’ll see that 95% of one year … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Inspire, Main Content | Tagged Bangladesh, breastfeeding, MaMoni, Save the Children, WHO Code | 6 Comments

Booby Trap Series: If you need to supplement with formula, avoid these Booby Traps

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on October 23, 2012

This post is the 58th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. Sometimes supplementing a breastfed baby is necessary in the early days and weeks after birth.* When it is, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged academy of breastfeeding medicine, Booby Traps, diana west, formula, lisa marasco, supplementing, the breastfeeding mother's guide to making more milk | 6 Comments

Booby Traps Series: “Crying helps you get an appointment faster.” Was your baby tongue tied?

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on October 16, 2012

This post is the 57th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. “Cry when you get the receptionist on the phone. Just tell her that you really need to see the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged american academy of pediatrics, ankyloglossia and breastfeeding, Booby Traps, catherine watson genna, fretonomy, lowmilksupply.org, posterior tongue tie and breastfeeding, tight lingual frenulum and breastfeeding, tongue tie and breastfeeding, tongue tie stories | 8 Comments

Booby Traps Series: Booby Traps in the Dentist’s Chair

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on October 2, 2012

This post is the 56th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. “I have to have some dental work done next week, and they will be using local anesthesia. When I … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Booby Traps, Main Content | Tagged american dental association, Booby Traps, breastfeeding dental work, canadian dental association, dental caries, dentists, dr. thomas hale, early childhood caries, La Leche League, laughing gas, lidocaine, medications and mothers' milk, nitrous oxide, tooth alignment, tooth decay | 12 Comments

Booby Traps Series: Did you get good breastfeeding care when your baby was jaundiced?

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC | Posted on September 28, 2012

This post is the 57th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. Jaundice (neonatal hyperbilirubinemia*) is the most common reason why babies are readmitted to the hospital in the first two … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged academy of breastfeeding medicine, american academy of pediatrics, expresse breastmilk, formula supplementation, hyperbilirubinemia, jaundice, phototherapy | 17 Comments

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