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October 2009

We're hitting the press!:

Article in the Irish Medical Times by Drs Siun Murphy and Aoife Mullally:

 

Article in Sunday Independant (4th Oct) by Terence Cosgrave:

www.independent.ie/national-news/breast-...bottle-1903840.html

 

September 30th 2009

latest research from Sweden - do regions and different social groups have different rates??

click here for pdf:

July 28th 2009

Breastway Calender

We're hoping toget your help, and launch a sassy breastfeeding breastway calender to raise funds for the website... so we need you, yummie mummies to help us! We have posted a chat regarding this to keep you posted and get your thoughts and ideas..

Live Chat

We now have a new live chat room facility with the capability to run private chat rooms. This also includes a private health professionals forum where Health Professionals can get private advice on patients from our expert panel, in situations where privacy is preferable.

We hope you'll like the chat rooms, and would love to get your feedback, so email us, or post your thoughts!

Swine Flu

We have posted the recommendations from the hpsa and hse on this issue in a new link on the left menu called Current and Topical Issues.

July 27th 2009

Check out our blog for recent issues in the media such as the swine flu alert...

 

 

June 22nd 2009

the breastway has a blog!! 

Check it out on the top menu bar and enjoy the banter!

 


June 8th 2009

A great start to June with the TV3 morning show about breastfeeding featuring 2 of our own experts here on thebreastway. Well done girls for doing a fabulous uplifting positive piece, they all looked fabulous and spoke so very well. Proud of you!!

Here's the catch up link so you can watch for yourselves...

http://www.tv3.ie/shows.php?request=themorningshow&tv3_preview=&video=9871

 

May 25th

We love this blog - 

The “I Told You So” : Breastfeeding 1-2-3 - Breastfeeding ...
By Angela White, JD, breastfeeding counselor
Welcome to the May Carnival of Breastfeeding! This month participants share stories related to breastfeeding (see entries at the end of this post). My story represents the end of the story — how it turns out when a mother practices ...

May 15th 

New articles:

  • Who is who? Counsellors, consultants....

We're short on photos for the gallery all you yummies! Email us your babe pics!

Coming Soon - blog for thebreastway, watch this space...

 


May 8th 2009

Check out Gwyneth Paltrows website www.goop.com for some nice recipes, fashion and makeup tips and more... us fellow mamas are liking it!


April 26th

New articles:

  • Oversupply
  • Supplementation
  • Breastway Gazette
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6169478.ece

http://podcasts.theatlantic.com/ - Hannah Roisin:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904/case-against-breastfeeding

Blacktating: Friday 5
By Elita
A study shows that if you breastfeed more, you earn less(have a feeling we'll be revisiting this one!) If you haven't already, give the US Dept. of Health & Human Services your opinions on how to promote and support breastfeeding. .

Mothers keep figures with drug to stop breast milk
Times Online - UK
HIV can be passed through breast milk, which is why affected mothers are advised to bottle feed their babies. The drug's increasing use is part of a ...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6169478.ece


Fabulous article on breastfeeding through the ages - beautiful photos:

http://www.mothering.com/jenniferjames/category/breastfeeding-in-public

  • 14th April

Yummy mummies vent their wrath over ad
Utalkmarketing - London,UK
Co-founder of the website, Justine Roberts, told the paper, “They could have used a way of expressing breastmilk to promote the work life balance. ...

Avoiding milk ? Try these instead
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
We’ve listed some pros and cons of milklike beverages, which should never be used as a replacement forbreastmilk or infant formula.

...Obama dropping ball on environment?
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
That's right, an ingredient in the fuel, perchlorate, contaminates ground water and has even been found in breastmilk. The chemical interferes with thyroid ...

 Business travel and the nursing mother
Examiner.com - USA
Business travel and breastfeeding seem an unlikely combination, but for many mothers, including myself, the two are impossible to separate. ...

Despite intentions, breastfeeding often stops early
Metro Canada - Halifax - Halifax,Canada
Many moms are choosing to stop nursing their babies sooner despite increasing breastfeeding rates for 20 years. A recent survey by Maternity Experiences ...


10th April

We apologise if youve been emailing and the emails have bounced back - was all due to uploading the site to a much faster server (so all good really!) ... but we're back in action now so get emailing your babes xx

New articles:



8th April 

  • Site should be working alot faster - thanks for your patience with it...
  • Chatbox is now up and running and working!
  • March winner for Gallery is on front page - "link between IQ and Breastfeeding" - we love it! 

Wash. Legislature OKs civil right to breast-feed
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
Washington moms could gain a civil right to breast-feed in public under a bill approved by the state Legislature. The Senate voted unanimously Tuesday for ...

Drowning in the pool of political correctness
Calgary Herald - Calgary,AB,Canada
Why on earth would you need or want to feed a child in a pool? ... but other people don't want to swim in trails of breast milk that dribbled out of the ...


April 4th 09

Irish Medical Times letter to the editor:

Media must give positive images of breastfeeding

03 April 2009

Dear Editor, One of the reasons, cited in a recent report, for low breastfeeding rates in Ireland (IMT 13.2.’09, www.imt.ie/news/2009/03/coombe_study_reveals_low_breas.html) is mothers’ embarrassment of breastfeeding in public places. Your article mentions the positive role media can play and I agree...

http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2009/04/media_must_give_positive_image.html

Rocket fuel chemical found in US infant formula
Examiner.com - USA
Late last year, researchers from Texas Tech University announced they found perchlorate in most samples of breast milk. No doubt, moms are exposed to the ...

Experts: Rocket Fuel Additive Found in More Than Just Baby Formula
Newswise (press release) - USA
From writing the book on the chemical to finding it in breast milk, store-bought milk and naturally occurring amounts in West Texas well water, ...

Breastmilk test to detect breast cancer
Times of India - India
Nursing mothers’ breast milk might one day help assess future breast cancer risk, say researchers. A research team led by environmental toxicologist ...

Breastfeeding and Facebook
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Yet there's no denying that some people are uncomfortable when mothers breastfeed children in their presence, especially if those children are no longer ..

Breastfeeding brouhaha
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
A Woodbridge mom is fighting for her right to breastfeed her daughter while sitting on the steps to an indoor swimming pool. The young mother was asked to ...

  Breastfeeding mother's complaint dismissed
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
2 by an employee of the H&M clothing store to go to a fitting room to breastfeed her baby so as not to offend other customers. She filed a complaint with ...

 

 

Instant chat shoutbox now running!!

March 17th Happy St Patricks Day babes! 

New Articles:

Reverse Pressure Softening Technique for engorged breasts

We're in the news!!:

Coombe study reveals low breastfeeding rates
Irish Medical Times - Dublin,Ireland
The research also revealed more non-Irish national women than Irish women attempted breastfeeding and they were also more likely to continue partially ...
See all stories on this topic 

Press Release

ALCI CONFERENCE

The Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland are hosting their annual spring conference in Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, Dublin on Saturday 21st of March, 2009. This year's theme is "Breastfeeding, Weaning and Contemporary Issues".
The guest speakers include Dr. Rosalyn Tarrant, Paediatric Dietician CUH, Dr. Pamela O'Connor, Consultant Neonataologist CWIUH, and Dr. Janine Stockdale Lecturer TCD.
Topics covered on the day will range from professional interests to the mothers' personal experiences. The day promises to provide a varied programme that will capture the interest of both professional and non professional practitioners in breast feeding support.
Further information and booking details can be found at www.alcireland.ie

Download the booking form here 


 

January Winner as shown on front page - just because she is so so cute! Congratulations, enjoy your baby on the front page!

Forum News:

New bookclub section and reading reviews -  monthly book recommendations and book club.

Send us your ideas!


New Articles:

Relactation & adoptive feeding

Hypoglycaemia of the Newborn

Breastfeeding after a C Section

How to measure for a nursing bra

Booklist for breastfeeding, toddlers' books with pics of breastfeeding ...

 

 

January 

We've been noticed!

http://www.007b.com/resources.php

and

http://007b.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-breastfeeding-help-site.html

New BreastWay Merchandise - 

www.zazzle.com/thebreastway

10% of cost goes into site maintenance! Help to keep us alive ! :)

New articles:

Breastfeeding Friendly Venues

Centile and growth charts (For Chris! x)

Babes biting babes

Herbs and Breastfeeding (new article)

More Members Stories

Tandem Feeding Story

Vitamin D Supplementation

Articles Updated:

Celebrity Breastfeeding

Expressing and Storing Breastmilk

Pumping and Working

Member News

 

December News

Gallery winner for November - "Nightnurse" ! Congratulations! keep them coming!

New articles:

Breast Augmentation

Nipple Surgery

Pumping and going back to work 

Modernmum Winter issue - not quite an article on breastfeeding as promised, but...

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November News

HSE have put a link up on www.breastfeeding.ie to TheBreastWay

  • November blog reommendation: http://howbreastfeedingworks.com

New Articles:

Medicines and Breastfeeding

Click on the yogi girls for thebreastway Gallery

October News


Check out this video for a giggle - anyone who's ever done yoga! :)


New to TheBreastWay! ...

Cigarette Smoking and Breasteeding
Herbs and Breastfeeding
Body products and breastfeeding
Exercise and breastfeeding

Irish Medical Times article on TheBreastWay 10th October

by Terence Cosgrave, Editor