These breastfeeding interviews tell fascinating and inspiring personal stories and offer some of the most current information and advice on breastfeeding:
1. Breastfeeding Advocate, Author, and Breast Cancer Survivor Kathleen Huggins (She is the author of The Nursing Mother’s Companion and The Expectant Parents’ Companion: Simplifying What to Do, Buy or Borrow for an Easy Life with Baby, and co-author of Nursing Mother, Working Mother and The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning)
2. Dr. Jane Morton, Director of Breastfeeding Medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine (She also put together this free video on …read more

Karen Kerkhoff Gromada recently released a third revised edition of her book Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More! Ms. Gromada is a long-time La Leche League leader, registered nurse and lactation consultant. In addition to writing Mothering Multiples she co-authored Keys to Parenting Twins, Keys to Parenting Multiples, and Care of the Multiple-Birth Family: Postpartum through Infancy.
B123: What are some of the significant changes and additions you made to this revised edition?
KKG: Hmm, there have been revisions to just about everything – every chapter includes some changes and updates. Amazing how the science of lactation and “standard” …read more

Kathleen Huggins, RN, MS, IBCLC is the author of The Nursing Mother’s Companion: Revised Edition and The Expectant Parents’ Companion. She’s also the co-author of two other books The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning and Nursing Mother, Working Mother, revised editions of which were released last week. Ms. Huggins is a registered nurse, certified lactation consultant and early childcare expert. For many years she worked as the director of a breastfeeding clinic in California. In an email interview with me, she starts off by sharing her recent history.
KH: Four years ago, in addition to directing the breastfeeding clinic, I opened …read more

A reader shares her experience breastfeeding triplets! Enjoy this Q&A with Julie:
Tell us a little about yourself and your three children!
I am 23 years old and active duty Navy. I’ve been in the Navy for three years. I’ve been married for four years, and my husband just graduated from college in December. We were told we were expecting twins when I was seven weeks pregnant, and were ecstatic and surprised and a little scared. I experienced some bleeding a few days later, and it continued on and off for the next two weeks, so I …read more

Before I concluded yesterday’s interview with Dr. Jane Morton, Director of Breastfeeding Medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, I couldn’t help grilling her on my pet peeve about medical doctors and breastfeeding knowledge: breastfeeding and medications. I have asked many a doctor whether a medication is safe to take while breastfeeding and been told a simple, flat-out “No” because that was the safe answer for the doctor whether it was true or not. Many times the doctor should have answered, “Let me look that up for you” or “I …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