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As lactation consultants, doulas, childbirth educations and other medical professionals, it can often be daunting to work with women who were the victims of sexual assault, rape or sexual abuse. Even if you are female, it can be awkward to start a conversation about natural child birth or breast feeding when working with a mother who has experienced sexual trauma. Most articles discourage women who have been assaulted from experiencing the joys of natural childbirth or breas

“I hesitated to get help with breastfeeding but it doesn’t really matter how my baby feeds, right?Because bestfed is best." Nothing is more dismaying than hearing a new mother who is pumping every 2-3 hours to provide breast milk for her baby, dismiss her efforts or her need to get her infant who is currently exclusively bottle feeding to the breast so she can stop pumping 24/7 and get more sleep. For those of you who haven’t heard the term bestfed, it means whatever feedin

Recommended Book of the Month: 'Clinics in Human Lactation -- Emotional and Physical Trauma and Its Impact on Breastfeeding Mothers' ... By Dianne Cassidy, MA, IBCLC-RLC, ALC Excerpt: When identifying reasons why women abandon breastfeeding, or refuse to initiate breastfeeding altogether, we need to look at the role emotional and physical trauma plays in breastfeeding. Emotional and physical trauma suffered by women at a young age, during pregnancy, during labor and deliver