Category Archives: Prepare
Booby Traps Series: Say no to routine blood glucose monitoring for healthy babies
This is the 30th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. Blood sugar. It’s a concept familiar to those of you who are diabetic or have had gestational diabetes, but to … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Can teen moms beat the breastfeeding odds?
This is the 31st post in a series on Booby Traps™, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. For the last few weeks I’ve been writing about Booby Traps™ related to culture and race. One of you … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Moms like me
This is the 30th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. In the last two posts I’ve written about Booby Traps™ related to race and culture in the hospital. I thought … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Is there a “soft bigotry of low expectations” when it comes to breastfeeding?
This is the 29th post in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. In my last post I wrote about cultural issues and breastfeeding support in the hospital. Today I’m pleased to … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Cultural traps in the hospital, and a “look” I won’t forget.
This post is the 28th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. I’ll be writing for a few weeks about a set of Booby Traps which are both seldom discussed and … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: “They said the latch was fine.”
This is the 27th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. There are few topics that get me going more than the quality of help mothers get in the hospital getting … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Skin-to-skin in the operating room after a cesarean birth is possible, improves breastfeeding rates. Could this be the beginning of a trend?
This post is the 25th in a series on Booby Traps made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. A little while back I wrote about the power of skin-to-skin contact and its relationship to breastfeeding and many … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Pushing pacifiers?
This post is the 24th in a series on Booby Traps made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. For several years I taught breastfeeding classes at area hospitals. At one class, in addition to about ten expecting … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Staff motivation can get in the way of Kangaroo Care and Skin-to-Skin
This post is the 23rd in a series on Booby Traps made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. To borrow a phrase, if there were a drug that could do the following things for premature and/or term … Continue reading
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