Remember when I interviewed Dr. Jane Morton about breastfeeding education for medical professionals? Remember when I mentioned her free online video on hand expression of breast milk? Well today I learned from About.com Breastfeeding that Dr. Morton has another fascinating free video online, this time about increasing breast milk supply when it is necessary to pump for a baby in the NICU or any baby not nursing well at the breast. It is called “Maximizing Milk Production” and in 9 minutes 35 seconds, it explains how to increase milk supply without medication. Dr. Morton recommends and demonstrates such techniques as …read more

I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to conduct a telephone interview with Dr. Jane Morton, Director of Breastfeeding Medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
When I told her that I was interested in looking at the fact that breastfeeding instruction is lacking in medical schools across the country, she replied:
I couldn’t agree more and the American Academy of Pediatrics also agrees completely. That’s why the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health federal bureau have put …read more