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Browse the Shelves: Our books, blog, and special offers

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Top 3 posts on postpartum depression & breastfeeding

Help! I Can’t Put My Baby Down

Should Mothers Avoid Nighttime Breastfeeding to Decrease their Risk of Depression?

Why Breastfeeding Protects Mental Health

3 posts on weaning

Does Weaning Help Mothers with Depression?

How to Wean Gently

Will My Baby Sleep More If I Wean Her?

A Mother's Climb Out of Darkness: A story about overcoming postpartum psychosis — The gripping fear and delusions of postpartum psychosis and determination to heal

Overcoming Postpartum Psychosis

Your Own Theater of Healing

Act it Out: 25 Exercises to Heal from Childhood Abuse — A theater of healing

Advancing Breastfeeding: Forging Partnerships for a Better Tomorrow — How can we create and develop a supportive culture?

Biological Nurturing: New Angles on Breastfeeding — Letting baby take the lead

Aspiring IBCLC — Want to be an IBCLC?

Babywearing — Just $5.00!

Back to Work for the Breastfeeding Mother — Overcoming the challenges

Battling Over Birth — When no one is listening

3 posts on Battling Over Birth

Battling Over Birth

Black History Month

Dona International’s Review of Battling Over Birth

Birth Ambassadors — Resource for birth attendants and mothers

Breastfeeding Social justice and equity — Understanding influences and improving outcomes

3 posts on Breastfeeding, Social Justice and Equity

A Mobile Application to Promote Breastfeeding Among Low-Income African-American Women

Breastfeeding Disparities and Implications for the Life Course

Racializing Breastfeeding Mothers in Breastfeeding Promotional Contexts

Breastfeeding and diseases — Invaluable reference guide

Breastfeeding Best Practices in Higher Education — Setting up a lactation program?

breastfeeding made simple — Definitive guide to breastfeeding

3 posts on making breastfeeding simple

Help! I Can’t Put My Baby Down

Help! My Baby Won’t Let Go

Right-Brained Breastfeeding

New Mothers bundle — For new moms and moms-to-be

Breastfeeding without birthing — Essential guide for mothers through adoption, surrogacy, and other special circumstances

3 posts on Breastfeeding Without Birthing

Breastfeeding Without Birthing: Hormones

Breastfeeding Without Birthing: Making Milk

Breastfeeding Without Birthing: Tips for Pumping Success

Clinical Lactation Monograph Series — 4 titles at a discount

Breast and nipple pain — Challenges and solutions

Cultural competence — Working with mothers from different cultures?

Intrapartum care — Helping new mothers?

lactation management — Important insights

Clinical Lactation Monograph: Lactation Management I

Lactation management — Important insights

Milk supply — Valuable insights

Professional Development Clinical Lactation — Expanding your skills in practice

Achieving Exclusive breastfeeding — Revised

altering hospital maternity culture — Working to be breastfeeding friendly

Breastfeeding after Breast and Nipple Procedures: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals — A guide for health care professionals

Breastfeeding and employment — $1.00!

Breastfeeding and the late preterm infant — Guidelines

History and assessment — Delivering professional breastfeeding support

Hospital breastfeeding issues — Managing issues arising in hospital

How breastfeeding protects women's health — Why and how

Mentoring Our Future — Develop the skills of a mentor

The Nipple and Areola in Breastfeeding and Lactation: Anatomy, Physiology, Problems, and Solutions — Structure and function

Non-Pharmacologic Treatments for Depression in New Mothers — Why these treatments alleviate depression and their specific clinical applications

3 posts on non-pharmacologic treatments

Exercise as a Treatment for Depression in New Mothers Instead of Antidepressants

Light Therapy to Treat Depression in Pregnant and Postpartum Women

Omega-3s and Mental Health: Can Fats Make You Happy?

Clinics in Human Lactation: Pumps & Pumping Protocols — Mechanics and techniques

3 pumping posts

Breast Pumps: Do You Need One?

How to Choose a Breast Pump

Pumping Breast Milk? Troubleshooting Tips to Maximize Production and Save Time

Community support for new families — Guide to create organization

COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN BREASTFEEDING THERAPY — Complementary therapies to use in conjunction with breastfeeding management

Creating and Marketing Your Birth-Related Business — Create a business venture

Depression in New Mothers: Causes, Consequences and Treatment Alternatives — Comprehensive approach to treating postpartum depression

Doulas Guide to Birthing Your Way — Step by step guide

3 doula posts

Making Birth a Positive Experience

Ten Tips for Your Birth Plan

The Fourth Trimester or First Three Months Following Birth

Dr. Jen’s Guide to Breastfeeding — A fun, easy read packed with critical information

Evolutionary eating how we got fat and 7 simple fixes — How to stay fit in our modern fat habitat

3 weight posts

Breastfeeding Mothers Come in All Shapes and Sizes

Six Months of Breastfeeding Reduces Mothers’ Risk of Heart Disease

Why Eating Less Won’t Solve the Obesity Epidemic

expressing your milk — What you need to know if you pump

3 pumping milk posts

Breastfeeding Mother Runs Ultramarathons

Flying With Breast Milk

How to Hand Express Milk

Finding Sufficiency: Breastfeeding with Insufficient Glandular Tissue — Guidance for practitioners and support for mothers

3 sufficiency posts

Breastfeeding After Reduction Surgery

Building My Milk Supply

Finding Sufficiency

Free to Breastfeed — African-American breastfeeding mothers

3 black mothers breastfeed posts

Free to Breastfeed

Treatment of Women in Childbirth

Voices of Black Mothers: A Book, A Website, A Movement

From bump to grind: secret scoop on labor, delivery and early motherhood — The inside story

3 new mother posts

3 Ways for a New Mother to Mother Herself

Help for Very Fatigued New Mothers

The Do’s and Don’ts of Visiting a New Baby

Growing Green Families — How to be environmentally friendly

3 green posts

Household Toxins

Spruce Up Tips for the Green Family

Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma — Help for sensitive care providers

3 posts on trauma

Birth Trauma: Psychological Trauma of Childbirth in Our Time

When Helping Hurts

Why Trauma-Informed Care Needs to be Our Standard

Health Consequences of Abuse in the Family — Addresses the needs of those who have suffered abuse

3 posts on abuse

Addiction What Are the Risk Factors?

Bad Childhood, Great Life

Sexual Assault Survivors and Breastfeeding

In the shade of Ava's Tree — Surviving HELLP and stillbirth

3 posts on loss

Racial Disparity in Infant Mortality

Surviving Brereavement:7 tips to help you on your journey

3 birth posts

High Intervention Birth and Mother’s Mood

Mindfulness and Childbirth

What You Should Know about Epidurals, Pitocin and Other Birth Interventions: Impact on Breastfeeding, and Perinatal Mental Health

INTERACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS IN BREASTFEEDING FAMILIES — Insightful and intriguing

3 posts on interaction and relationships in breastfeeding families

Interaction and Relationships in Breastfeeding Families

Physiological Breastfeeding Patterns and Establishment of Secure Attachment Systems

Unnested Humans, Unhuman Nature

It Just Got Real The Secret Scoop on Motherhood — Postpartum advice from an expert

It Takes a Village — Scholarship in breastfeeding

Keep Mothers and Babies Together — Pediatrician and neonataligist Dr. John Kennell and his colleague Dr. Marshall Klaus changed the way mothers and babies were treated in hospital

Keep the fires burning CONQUERING STRESS AND BURNOUT AS A MOTHER-BABY PROFESSIONAL — Reality of work as a mother-baby professional

3 posts on self-care

7 Tips to Save Your Sanity

Caring for Ourselves Is Caring for Others

Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others

Kiss Me: How to raise your children with love — Renowned pediatrician Dr. Carlos González in defence of children

3 posts on responsive parenting

Kiss Me! In Defence of Children

Promoting Breastfeeding as an Experience

Why Breastfeeding Is In Men’s Best Interest

http://stores.praeclaruspress.com/lactation-management-strategies-for-working-with-african-american-moms/ — Successful communication

Maternity Leave: A New Mother's Guide to the First Six Weeks Postpartum — Vital info in the first six weeks postpartum

Mother to Mother — The questions on every new mother’s mind

New Insights Into Vitamin D — During pregnancy, breastfeeding and infancy

Vitamin D and Its Surprising Link to Perinatal Depression, Health Disparities, and the Health Impact of Adversity

OXYTOCIN THE BIOLOGICAL GUIDE TO MOTHERHOOD — The role of oxytocin in pregnancy and breastfeeding

3 posts on oxytocin

Health Implications for Breastfeeding Mothers

Maternal Oxytocin: Its Role in Milk Ejection and Warmth Provision

Oxytocin and Stress Regulation in Lactation

passionate journey my unexpected life — One of 7 Founders of LLL

Perfect Mothers Get Depressed — What happens when a mother tries to do everything right?

3 depression posts

Are You Little Miss Perfect?

Scope of Depression: Why Are New Mothers Depressed?

Understanding Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

PERSPECTIVES IN LACTATION - IS PRIVATE PRACTICE FOR ME? — Private practioner

Phantom of the OperaA SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR MUSICAL — How social media upset the balance

NEW title

Postpartum Mothers — For new mothers postpartum

Support postpartum moms — Support for moms postpartum

Preparing to Breastfeed Pregnant mother's guide — Pregnant mother’s guide

3 pregnancy posts

Birth Interventions and the Impact on Breastfeeding

Oral Contraceptives Not Just for Preventing Pregnancy

Pregnancy Myths from TV

Regulating infant formula — Who regulates it?

3 posts on politics of breastfeeding

Let’s Get Political: Breastfeeding and the Law

Promoting Breastfeeding as An Experience

The Tongue-Tie Controversy and the Role of the IBCLC

Selecting and Using Breastfeeding Tools — Technological approach

Seven Sisters for seven days — For mothers and those working with them to ensure mothers get the postpartum care they need

3 posts on protecting mothers postpartum

How Cultures Protect the New Mother

Ten Tips to Fend Off the Baby Blues

When Postpartum Packs a Punch

Six stories of disability — Handling disability and helping physicians better relate to families with disabled children.

3 posts touching on disability

Breastfeeding With a Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate

My Instinctive Trust in Breastfeeding

Neuroscience Shows Breastfeeding Is Not Just Milk

Somebody Stole my Iron — A roadmap of dementia

Spanish for Breastfeeding Support — To help you provide effective breastfeeding support to Spanish-speaking mothers

Spontaneous Joyful birth — Confidence building and inspiring

Top 3 birth posts

Giving Birth Without Drugs

Good Positions for Giving Birth

Labor and Birth in Water: The Tide Is Turning

START HERE: BREASTFEEDING AND INFANT CARE WITH HUMOR AND COMMON SENSE — Don’t intellectualize breastfeeding

3 posts by James Akre

A Breastfeeding Narrative. Metaphorically Yours, James Akre

Breastfeeding Is Our Common Mother Tongue

Our Perverse Approach to Breastfeeding

Stress Less Live Better — Mindfulness

Top 3 mindfulness posts

How to Be In the Moment

Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) for Weight Loss

Mindfulness and the Goddess Myth

Advocating for yourself and loved ones

The tenth step and beyond — Supporting mothers

The Attachment Pregnancy — From the moment your child is conceived to the birth

The Breastfeeding Atlas — A must-have text for the IBLCE exam and practitioners

The Dance of Teaching Childbirth Education — Comprehensive childbirth education

The Gentle Art of Newborn Family Care — A manual for caregivers

UK version

US version

3 dads posts

How Do You Feel Dad?

New Dads and Sex

Why Breastfeeding Is In Men’s Best Interest

The Science of Mother-Infant Sleep — A collaborative project by an international working group of experts on mother-baby sleep

3 posts on sleep

Lying Down to Breastfeed: Mother and Baby Sleep Position

Safe Sleep Guide for Breastfeeding Families

Simple Ways to Calm a Crying Baby and Have a More Peaceful Night’s Sleep

3 posts on the digital age

Lessons to Learn from Fed is Best

Lifestyle Blogs and Breastfeeding Ideology

Why I approve of Breastfeeding in Public

To Three and Beyond — Full term breastfeeding

Top 3 posts on breastfeeding older children

Are You an “Extreme” Mother?

Breastfeeding “Forever”

Natural-Term Breastfeeding No Longer Under Wraps

Transformed by Postpartum Depression — Dr. Walker Karraa has forged the future for maternal health

3 posts on postpartum depression

Sexual Assault Survivors and Breastfeeding

Substance Abuse and Depression

What Power Is In a Mother’s Song?

Under One Sky — Culmination of years of lactation consults

3 posts on Under One Sky

A Breastfeeding Mother and her Newborn’s Drug Withdrawal

A Sad Reason For Ten Minutes Of Fame

The Mother in the Tilt-a-Whirl Bed

Understanding Breastfeeding — Practical advice

3 posts on breastfeeding

Did the Earth Move for You?

Endometriosis and Breastfeeding

Health Implications for Breastfeeding Mothers

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CRY IT OUT — A collaborative project by an international working group of experts on mother-baby sleep

3 posts on crying

Controlled Crying and Long-Term Harm

Why Cry-It-Out Can be Bad For the Brain

Why Do Babies Cry?

When Postpartum Packs a Punch — Solace for mothers following traumatic birth and perinatal mood disorders

3 postpartum posts

The Four Pillars of Health

The Value of Pain

When Postpartum Packs a Punch

Women's Mental Health across the lifespan — Putting knowledge into practice

3 posts on menopause

Dry Eyes in Menopause: Something to Cry About

Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause

Let’s Talk Menopause

Working and breastfeeding made simple — Nancy Mohrbacher’s top tips

3 posts on working and breastfeeding

How to Give a Bottle to a Breastfed Baby

How to Hand Express Milk

Why Is My Breast Milk Soapy

Working and breastfeeding — Working and breastfeeding: all you need to know

Your baby's sleep in the first year — The first 12 months of sleep

3 posts on sleep

Sleep Like a Baby

What Is Normal Infant Sleep

Where Babies Sleep

Barbara

Contact Barbara E: barbara.higham@gmail.com Writer at barbarahigham.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/BreastfeedingPosts/ Editor at womenshealthtoday.blog

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May 24, 2018

Birth, Breastfeeding, childbirth, Health care, Mental health, mindfulness, Pregnancy, Recommended reading

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