Articles from Leaven
La Leche League's Publication for Leaders:
SOLVING SPECIFIC BREASTFEEDING PROBLEMS/RESEARCH ARTICLES
These articles deal with helping mothers with more technical or medical problems. In addition, articles on related topics, such as the family bed, milk banking, etc., are here. For helping mothers in general, please see our collection of Leaven articles on helping mothers. Articles are grouped under helpful sub-headings, and within those appear in chronological order, with more recent articles first. For your convenience, we also have an index of Leaven articles by date and issue.
We provide articles from our publications from previous years for reference for our Leaders and members. Readers are cautioned to remember that research and medical information change over time.
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Contents
- Common Concerns--Healthy Mothers and Babies
- Medical Conditions in Babies
- Medical Conditions in Mothers
- Other Issues
Common Concerns--Healthy Mothers and Babies
- Making Breastfeeding Normal
- Mothers' Sleep and Fatigue: Some Preliminary Findings
- Gentling Baby to a Bottle: When a Breastfed Baby is Bottle-fed
- Research Into Practice: How Do We Help Mothers with Vitamin D Questions?
- Vitamin D Requirements During Infancy: Reading Between the Lines
- LLLI Revises Milk Storage Guidelines
- Clarifying the Confusion Over Cross-Cradle Hold
- Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Breastfeeding Can Help
- Epidurals and Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding and the Fast-Gaining Baby
- Is Weighing Baby to Measure Milk Intake a Good Idea?
- Early Childhood Caries
- Helping Mothers Who Work Outside the Home
- The Importance of Colostrum
- Adoptive Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy
- Building Milk Supply in Adoptive Mothers
- Holiday Weaning
- Exploring the World of Breast Pumps
- Are Used Breast Pumps a Good Option? Issues to Consider
- The World of Latch-On: One Leader's Journey
- Infant Self-Attachment
- Kangaroo Mother Care
- How Mother's Milk Is Made
- Answering Questions about Breast Pumps
- Supporting the Human-Milk-Feeding Mother
- Weaning as a Natural Process
- Short Stories from around the world: Twin Mothers
- Circumcision and Breastfeeding
- The Mother-Baby Dance: Positioning and Latch-On
- Introducing Complementary Foods
- Helping a Mother with a Baby Who Is Reluctant to Nurse
- Supplementing the Breastfeeding Baby
- Nipple Piercing: Is It Compatible with Breastfeeding?
- Sage Advice on Herbs and Breastfeeding
- Does This Mother Really Have to Wean? Questions Leaders Can Ask
- The Vegetarian Breastfeeding Mother
- Wet Nursing and Cross Nursing
- Nursing During Pregnancy
- Pesticides and Breastfeeding (research shows that breastfeeding is the best choice, in spite of contaminants)
- LLL Reaches Out to Mothers Nursing Twins
- Helping Large Breasted Mothers
- Breastfeeding and Contaminants (NEW BEGINNINGS, Sept-Oct 1986) (shows how media reports can scare mothers unnecessarily)
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Medical Conditions in Babies
- Bobby's Dairy -- An Update
- Chiropractic Care for the Breastfeeding Dyad
- Sunlight Deficiency: Helping Breastfeeding Mothers Find the Facts
- Sunlight Deficiency, "Vitamin D," and Breastfeeding
- Bobby's Dairy: Nursing a Baby with Chylothorax
- GERD and the Breastfed Baby
- Cystic Fibrosis: How Leaders Can Help
- Tongue-Tie and Breastfeeding
- Autism and the Breastfeeding Family
- Preoperative Fasting (NPO): Guidelines for Breastfed Infants and Children
- Pierre Robin Sequence
- Considering CranioSacral Therapy in Difficult Situations
- Tactile Defensiveness and Other Sensory Modulation Difficulties
- Congenital Disorders: Implications for Breastfeeding
- When Baby Is Hospitalized
- Yeast Infections and the Breastfeeding Family
- To Breastfeed or Not: PKU, Galactosemia, Other Rare Disorders and Possible Misdiagnosis
- The Importance of Newborn Stool Counts
- Allergies
- Clampdown Bite Reflex
- Neonatal Hypoglycemia and Breastfed Babies (how Leaders can reply to questions about hypoglycemia)
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Medical Conditions in Mothers
- Supporting Mothers with Mammary Hypoplasia
- Research on Postpartum Depression: a point-counterpoint discussion
- New Research on Postpartum Depression
- Relactation after Breast Cancer: A Case Study
- New Studies in Postpartum Depression
- Gigantomastia
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
- Smoking and Breastfeeding
- Too Swollen to Latch On? Try Reverse Pressure Softening First
- Breast Health and Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding after Breast Reduction Surgery
- Treatment Options for Depressed Breastfeeding Mothers: Allopathic, Alternative, and Lifestyle Changes
- Helping a Breastfeeding Mother with Poison Ivy Dermatitis
- Breastfeeding after the Loss of a Multiple
- Nipple Shields . . . Friend or Foe?
- Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and Breastfeeding
- Fitting Breastfeeding into Your Life (helping mothers with chronic illnesses)
- Nipple Pain: Causes, Treatments, and Remedies
- New Perspectives on Engorgement
- Questions on Using Medications
- Helping the Visually Impaired or Blind Mother Breastfeed
- Cutting Breast Cancer Risk: Reason to Breastfeed
- Mother-Child Transmission of HIV
- Antidepressant Medication Use during Breastfeeding
- Weight Loss while Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding and the Sexual Abuse Survivor
- Alcohol and Motherhood (research suggests occasional use of alcohol in limited amounts is compatible with breastfeeding)
- Medications and Breastfeeding
- When a New Mother Is Depressed
- Finish the First Breast First (one of four articles from Sept-Oct '95 on overactive letdown)
- Overactive Letdown: Consequences and Treatment
- Common Side Effects of an Overactive Letdown (sidebar from "Finish the First Breast First")
- Is Milk Supposed to Leak?
- Helping Mothers Who Are Deaf
- Postpartum Depression (the varying levels of PPD and how Leaders can help mothers with PPD)
- Mastitis--Plugged Ducts and Breast Infections
- LLL and the Mother Who Is Blind
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Other Issues
- Breastfeeding Support Following Loss
- Breastfeeding Legislation in the United States: A General Overview andImplications for Helping Mothers
- Are Tattoos Compatible with Breastfeeding?
- Enviromental Contaminants and Human Milk
- What Do We Do If We Suspect Child Abuse or Neglect? Our Role as LLL Leaders
- Breastfeeding Remains the Best Choice in a Polluted World
- Surprises in the 2003 Edition of THE BREASTFEEDING ANSWER BOOK
- Becoming a Donor to a Human Milk Bank
- Letters to LLLI: Supplementation and Milk Banks & Outdated Books
- A Snapshot of Milk Banking in Other Countries
- When the Worst Happens: Helping a Mother Who Has Lost a Baby
- Recently, a Study About Co-Sleeping Received Widespread Publicity in the USA (press release on co-sleeping)
- Dietary Choices and DHA Supplementation
- Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Critical Listening
- Handling Legal Calls
- Nighttime Parenting in New Zealand (deals with the NZ crib/cot death study)
