Norma Escobar

#WorldBreastfeedingWeek starts today! Women shouldn’t require superpowers to juggle breastfeeding and work. All moms everywhere, no matter their work or contract type, should have: 🧸 At least 18 weeks, preferably 6 months or more, of paid maternity leave 🧸 Paid time off for breastfeeding or expressing milk upon returning to work 🧸 Flexible return-to-work options Let’s make breastfeeding and work, work! bit.ly/3JVDyoF

@SteveBalagizi @GeciPh Try docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@GeciPh Can someone help me plz?

Online course will be open for the third cohort on June 12! Register here👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Lancet 2023 Breastfeeding series. Author ⁦@DrTomori⁩ presents with on the marketing playbook of comercial milk formula manufacturers that hurt families.

this is a really good course! I was in the first cohort! First class.

Register for the upcoming interactive webinar presented by our members @JLacyNichols and Eric Crosbie "The Public Health Playbook: Ideas for challenging the Corporate Playbook" bit.ly/3kD3JXa

Hey Lactation people - are you signed up for this? The 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding evt.mx/I5YnpIV3 via @eventable

@ILCA1985 Just watched this - FANTASTIC, practical and insightful presentation by Crystal Cooper - 👏👏👏 One of my favorites so far!

The notion that women’s bodies are inadequate is communicated directly through policies, procedures & symbolic actions. At #ILCA22 take examples from how lactation consultants confronted dominant concepts that negatively impact breastfeeding bit.ly/3D14UFh.

@mamabear_ca Exactly!

@bitter_witch @Cevasco_Carla Oh, it’s a thing. Most recently in the Philippines breastfeeding.org.sg/oct-2019-exclu…

@Cevasco_Carla Is lactating grandma a real thing or did I imagine it? Like re-lactating to help feed babies of the next gen in places where there isn’t access to clean water, etc.

You may be hearing the argument that before the rise of modern commercial infant formula, babies all ate breastmilk and everything was great. As a historian of infant feeding, let me tell you why that’s not true.

Newly published research: breastfeeeding initiation associated with lower infant mortality in the United States. #ABM2021 reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/…

@SenatorBurr Nearly 1 in 4 women of childbearing age are not covered by the Break Time for Nursing Mothers law. Please support the #PUMPAct (S. 1658/H.R. 3110) to ensure that all workers are protected!

Plugging, Mastitis, and Abscess: Novel Approaches to Treatment From a Breast Surgeon’s Perspective cdmcd.co/rMqj8j The take home is NO MASSAGE!

@HHSGov I was just on your page and saw that the Public Health Emergency Declaration for COVID 19 appears to have been renewed today, but when you click the link it takes you to the Opioid information not the COVID declaration? phe.gov/emergency/news…

NEWS: HHS is announcing additional measures to encourage vaccinations and increase vaccine confidence as part of the next phase of its #COVID19 public education campaign. Learn more: bit.ly/3rCle7P

@LizBrooksIBCLC Actualy - Elizabeth (Kali) Stehel, MD, IBCLC and board chair did a presentation like this around 2012-2013 ... :)

Whoa up #ILCA2020 pay attention. This is the first time IBLCE has provided any kind of public data on their Ethics & Disciplinary process "stats." SIT UP. And three cheers for transparency!

@LizBrooksIBCLC @humanmilknews

@humanmilknews @NormaEscobar66 OMG Norma just told #ILCA2020 folks "you should have a laminated copy of the CPC..." I WIN

#ILCA2020 Up next! more E-CERPS with ⁦@NormaEscobar66⁩ talkin’ ‘bout the IBLCE Code of Professional Conduct! What? You don’t have a laminated version of the CPC to follow along, as I do?

@LizBrooksIBCLC @humanmilknews this is AWESOME!!!!

@humanmilknews you're a good mama!

Coleman: When you think of postpartum depression, what comes to mind? Isolation, fear, paranoia, insomnia, worry, lack of appetite, alone, afraid, suicide #ILCA2020

#ILCA2020 Coleman - infants get 7 medical visits in the first year post-birth- birthing parents? ONE...