We're super pumped that Healthy Horizon's blog is ranked among Feedspot's Best #Lactation Blogs on the planet! Check us out at #16 https://t.co/A3LwDuzV2b
Barriers to creating & improving products to help mothers are vast and varied. @MyPresque integrates gender dimension & functional usability into its product design to address the 3 key reasons mothers wean early
https://t.co/hCgHEtJSTV
People deserve alternatives AND they deserve hospital care that is trustworthy
***A bad system will beat a good person every time***
At a time of low trust, we need to view trustworthiness as a moral issue as well as an output of a system that is either working not working
Ingredients in many baby foods are contaminated with heavy metals like arsenic, lead and cadmium at levels that are far higher than those allowed in products like bottled water, U.S. investigators said on Thursday. https://t.co/YE3G7ISqo8
New #SRHR research in BIRTH answers key questions about the upcoming Labour Care Guide (LCG) from @WHO/@HRPresearch, which helps #maternalhealth providers implement intrapartum care recommendations. Is the LCG useable, acceptable, feasible? In short - yes! https://t.co/SNIDAQhztv
Breastfeeding boosts babies’ immune systems, giving them a healthy start in life.
Improving breastfeeding rates could save more than 820,000 under-5s every year! Let’s give every mother the support she needs to breastfeed and keep #EveryChildALIVE. https://t.co/5A4hYzffat
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Breast milk provides the perfect source of early nutrition for babies.
We all can support #breastfeeding mothers to breastfeed ANYWHERE!
🎥 @UNICEF
@acog@neel_shah how can we expect improvements to healthcare when this is the comment from an NSF SBIR reviewer: "When you have a newborn, you don't sleep, have to take care of that new born, and I quote "your breasts hurt so much when they are full, you know that there is milk"."
1/ How American childbirth outcomes have changed over the last generation:
- we’ve decided to intervene with major abdominal surgery 500% more often
- term infants have become 0% better off
- moms have become 50% MORE likely to die
8/ …new moms typically see obstetrician/midwife in hospital before going home & then again for brief visit 6 wk later.
This is inadequate, as professional societies recently acknowledged
https://t.co/Zzp6M5wgoq
Midwives at the Royal Oldham Hospital have made dilation pumpkins and now you cannot unsee this either (blame @SarahDuggers for sharing it in the first place)
Our Smart Lactation Aid system under development, addresses ALL the 3 issues on this page from the #Stanford Lucille Packard Children Hospital.
https://t.co/hCgHEtJSTV