The paper on the importance of sexed language for communications regarding pregnancy, birth, lactation, breastfeeding and newborn care is now just shy of 140,000 views. Thanks Karleen Gribble et al and everyone who read, shared and engaged in the discussion. doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2…

It might at first sound insensitive to suggest milk donation to a mother whose baby has died - but when discussed sensitivity, it can be a helpful and positive thing. We have seen this at ATTA Breastmilk Community 🇺🇬 and know groups around the world doing similar Memory Milk Gift Karleen Gribble

“I could not find the strength to resist the pressure of the medical staff, to refuse to give commercial milk formula”: a qualitative study on effects of the war on Ukrainian women’s infant feeding frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

“You make my heart hurt because it loves you so much.” 😍

The bond between infants and their mothers is a special one indeed - with nature playing important roles (in both directions) to help promote attachment.

After birth, mothers’ brains are flooded with chemicals

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New paper on Ukrainian women's experiences of infant feeding during the war. Take home, despite vast aid funding, mothers have not been given appropriate infant feeding support in this emergency. We must do better. Women and children are being failed.
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This is a good demonstration of the peril of replacing a word with one of a different meaning. Breastfeeding and lactation are not the same thing. Not by a long shot!

'In advocating for women’s liberation and equality, second-wave feminists inadvertently created a narrative that maternal presence could be substituted without consequence.' Erica Komisar, LCSW

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Did you miss the webinar on 'gender-responsive budgeting and maternity services in a federal system' back in April? You can catch up now on YouTube: youtu.be/Ni0A_vTXZT0?si… ANUPopulationHealth Julie P Smith BPNI

Breastfeeding should be celebrated and supported as a sustainable, local, and healthy first-food system for generations to come. It's time to value what truly matters. Roger Mathisen bit.ly/Breastfeedinga… #BreastfeedingasCarbonOffset #MothersDay

If the SA authorities feel a need to remove over a hundred newborns a year from their mothers at birth, it suggests money may be better spent in a purpose built facility for supervised mother baby dyads. For some it could be a turning point. theconversation.com/mums-in-prison…

Excited to do a complementary foods photo shoot today for the Mother-Baby Area Guide for Australia that we are developing as a part of the ABA Bushfire Project.

Many of you were moved by the speech of Ciara Curran at the House of Lords on the importance of 'woman' and 'mother'. Her charity Little Heartbeats provides support packs to women with prematurely ruptured membranes. They need help to continue. Please consider donating.

Researchers in the UK, this is a review well worth participating in. Everyone, but particularity those working in women and children's health, should be concerned about it being more difficult to collect accurate data on sex. Ramifications for the female data gap are significant.

The importance of language
Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender
WRN Scotland
Scottish Feminist Network

The intent is for a shift in thinking to reduce demand for unnecessary & unhealthy food products with high #GHG , especially heavily marketed formulas & milks promoted for > 6 months, products World Health Organization (WHO) considers unnecessary for infant or young kids, yet are >50% of baby milk sales.

If you feel burping is helpful to your baby, then keep doing what you’re doing.

But as Karleen Gribble (@westernsydneyu) + Nina Chad PhD (@Sydney_Uni) write, If it's stressing you or your baby out, then you don’t have to keep doing it. theconversation.com/do-we-really-n…

WHO Council 'A forward-thinking example': breastfeeding be recognized in food & well-being statistics, & investments in #breastfeeding be considered a carbon offset in global financing arrangements for sustainable food, health & economic systems.' t.ly/Z2Apa #auspol

New The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article with DrNinaChad on burping babies! Synopsis: non-universal cultural practice with little evidence for benefit or not, sling use can reduce crying and assist in caregiving, do it if you want but don't stress if not. theconversation.com/do-we-really-n…