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Wilson-Clay/Hoover Poster Prize

July 28, 2011 by staff Leave a Comment

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Wilson-Clay/Hoover Poster Prize.  The poster that won the award this year was submitted by Pamela Hendrix, Susan Welke, Kerry Foligno, Angelina Rodriguez, “The Lived Experience of Lactation Following Bariatric Surgery.”

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2011 ILCA Scholarship Winners

July 28, 2011 by staff Leave a Comment

Shown (from left to right), are Syreeta, a WIC Peer Counselor from Virginia, Kay Hoover, and Victoria, an IBCLC from Ukraine, winners of the Wilson-Clay/Hoover ILCA Conference Scholarship.  Also shown (far right) is Joy Heads, a proud new ILCA Board member. The Wilson-Clay/Hoover Conference Scholarship was developed as a mentoring opportunity to assist new and aspiring LCs to attend the ILCA conference for the first time.  Barbara and Kay hope that the exceptional international environment and the educational stimulation of the conference will inspire these new members of our profession to take some of that excitement back to their own practices.

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Singer Candice Jones and Barbara Wilson-Clay at the Cobb and Douglas Co WIC Conference in Georgia

July 1, 2011 by staff 3 Comments

Candice, one of the  great WIC peer counselors from the Atlanta area, presented the luncheon entertainment for the conference at which Barbara presented a day-long clinical training workshop.  What a fun group!

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Kay Hoover’s poster on the use of radio-contrast agents and breastfeeding appears in the June 2011 issue of the Journal of Clinical Lactation

June 2, 2011 by staff 1 Comment

Anne Charest, IBCLC, and Ghislaine Reid, IBCLC, two lactation consultants from Quebec, Canada, generously translated the poster into French.  Anne and Ghislaine have agreed to let us share their translation with other French speaking lactation consultants around the world.  Both the English and French versions of Kay’s poster may be freely reproduced and shared.  Thanks, Anne and Ghislaine for expanding the usefulness of this important tool.

Radio-Contrast Materials and Breastfeeding Poster

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The “3 Kathleens” Lecture in Bilbao, Spain

November 30, 2010 by staff Leave a Comment

Kathleen Hoover, M.Ed, IBCLC, FILCA (left) Kathleen Marinelli, MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP, and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC (right) gave talks at the 2010 La Leche League of the Basque Country IV Simposio Internacional sobre Lactancia Materna  November 15-16.  Participants and other presenters came from Spain, Greece, and Canada, and the US.

Dr. Marinelli (center) supervises publication of all the on-line lactation management protocols for the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (www.abm.org).  She spoke about lactation management of  babies with cardiac defects and low motor tone.  Dr. Kendall-Tackett presented her research on postpartum depression.  Our own Kathleen, Kay Hoover, addressed issues such as:  When Baby Won’t Latch, Managing Nipple Pain, and Helping the Mother of Multiples.

A friendly nurse takes Dr. Marinelli(left) and Kay Hoover on a tour of the NICU at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, a Baby-Friendly Hospital in Madrid, which boasts an in-house milk bank.

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I am consulting with a 24 year old primip patient in her 3rd trimester who has Sjogren’s Syndrome.

Message: Dear Barbara and Kay, I am consulting with a 24 year old primip patient in her 3rd trimester who has Sjogren’s Syndrome. She is wondering if it will affect breastfeeding. She was diagnosed 3 years ago and is being followed by a rheumatologist and a perinatologist. She describes her condition as "mild", with her symptoms just affecting her eyes and saliva. Her only medication for this syndrome prior to becoming pregnant, was Restasis, which she is not using while pregnant. I am not … [Read More...]

Counseling a Working Mother: Workplace Pumping and Embarrassment

Message: Dear Barbara and Kay, I have a client who has returned to work. Her baby was born 5/6/11. She is a PhD at a university. She asked about pumping frequency at work and the effects on supply if she skips a pumping. We discussed the implications of  regular milk removal. Breastfeeding is very important […]

Swallowing dysphagia as a cause of rejection of solid foods

Interesting updates on our recent Ask B & K case regarding the toddler who refused solids.  Ameera, the Egyptian IBCLC who wrote us about this case communicated the surprising news that the mother weaned the baby and the baby immediately began accepting solids.  This is a very counter-intuitive result, but in the interest of intellectual […]

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