Wet Set Gazette Vol 3 2012 by jill franks

In this issue vol.3 | 2012 The Wet Set Gazette is published approximately every other month by Dy-Dee Diaper Service and is dedicated to new and expectant families.

Psychological Issues of Pregnancy and Birth

by Tonya Brooks..........1

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Just Love: The first and last word on motherhood.

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Choosing a Baby Friendly Hospital, by Rita L. Shertick, RN, BSN ............................2 Perinatal Depression and Anxiety, by Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D., LMFT ......................4 Boobie-Palooza 2012, by Alicia Stuart...........................................................9 Resources ........................................................................................ 10 Doula Resource Listings .......................................................................12 Breastfeeding Consultant Resource Listings ...............................................14 Professional Education and Training .......................................................15 LAcstravaganza: A Celebration of Mothers and Babies, by Rebecca Roe................ back

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Choosing a Baby Friendly Hospital by Rita L. Shertick, RN, BSN

What does Baby Friendly mean and how do you find one?

Is your hospital baby friendly? What, really you ask?? You think, well they have delivered babies there forever. I was born there, my mother, sisters and neighbors had their babies at our local hospital and had no complaints, so of course it must be baby friendly. That is the common assumption. They were told them what to do to comply with the hospital routines, and did as they were told. Contrary to popular belief, just because a hospital has an obstetric unit, that doesn’t mean they give the best care possible. As a matter of fact the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized that not all hospitals where babies are born provide optimal care to the newborn. Looking at evidence based medicine for the best health of the newborn, they devised a criteria for optimal care called “Baby Friendly”. The following is quoted from their website: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a global program sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to encourage and recognize hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for infant feeding. The BFHI assists hospitals in giving mothers the information, confidence, and skills needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies or feeding formula safely, and gives special recognition to hospitals that have done so.

The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

The BFHI promotes, protects, and supports breastfeeding through The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding for Hospitals, as outlined by UNICEF/WHO. The steps for the United States are: 1. Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff. 2. Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy. 3. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding. 4. Help mothers initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth. 5. Show mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation, even if they are separated from their infants. 6. Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breastmilk, unless medically indicated. 7. Practice “rooming in”— allow mothers and infants to remain together 24 hours a day. 8. Encourage breastfeeding on demand. 9. Give no pacifiers or artificial nipples to breastfeeding infants. 10. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic Notice they do not ban formula feeding, but offer guidelines for safe feeding.

The CDC issued their statement October 13, 2011: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded nearly $6 million over three years to the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality to help hospitals nationwide make quality improvements to maternity care to better support mothers and babies to be able to breastfeed. The goal of the project is accelerate the number of U.S. Baby-Friendly hospitals. This project will address the need to improve hospital practices to support breastfeeding by helping hospitals move toward Baby-Friendly status. The core of the Baby-Friendly Initiative are the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, a bundle of science-based practices established by the World Health Organization and UNICEF as global criteria to improve breastfeeding rates. These criteria are endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

For the full statement you can search CDC Baby Friendly. To find out if the hospital where you plan to deliver is Certified Baby Friendly, you can go to their web site: www.babyfriendlyusa.org and follow the links to your neighborhood, or just search by zip code. Another way to search is from the website Rita l. Shertick, RN, BSN of the Breastfeeding Task Force LA: www. Certified Lactation Educator breastfeedla.org. Bilingual Spanish Just because the hospital in your community is not listed, don’t despair. Many RitaDoulaRN.vpweb.com hospitals are working towards certification 562.299.2022 cell and have begun to implement many of the Rita L. Shertick, RN, BSN, is a staff nurse at steps. You can always call the hospital OB Downey Regional Medical Center’s Family Birth unit and ask. If the reply is negative, inquire Center and adjunct OB Faculty at Long Beach if they are aware of the status of neighboring City and Cypress Colleges. She is a Lamaze cerfacilities. If you are unable to switch hospitals tified childbirth educator and a certified lactation for insurance reasons, one way to implement educator. Rita teaches Breastfeeding; Childbirth change at your designated place is during the Education; preparing for births at the hospital, hospital tour, bring up the topic for discusbirth center, or at home; Baby Care; and CPR sion. Make the point of how being “Baby classes at Belly Sprouts in Fullerton. Friendly” is so much healthier for the newborns and it would be great if they decided to go along with the CDC recommendations. Bring the other parents into the discussion also, many of them I’m sure would be grateful for the additional information. Remember this is your baby, if an OB unit tells you “We always give the babies some formula” you can tell them you will sign a medical release form, so your baby does not have to get formula.

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The Psychological Issues of Pregnancy and Birth These emotions are normal

By Tonya Brooks

To our readers: Hear is a reprint of an article I wrote almost 40 years ago. It defined the EMOTIONAL issues of pregnancy and birth. It is still our most requested article about childbirth. Through the years it has given women so much comfort to know which emotions are completely normal. This puts all that emotion into perspective. This article was originally published in the East West Journal in 1974 in Boston. Tonya Brooks East West Journal August ’74 Vol. IV No. 7 “The woman who is happy, prepared, educated and confident will have little trouble with her birth” In the seven years that I have done research in childbirth and infant-mother relationships, it has become clear that the psychological issues are universally important to women and are completely misunderstood by the medical establishment. Over the last two years I have counseled more than 100 women who were interested in childbirth at home, and the following topics have emerged as being of great concern. It is from these topics that the third meeting of the ACHI series called “Psychological Issues” was evolved. The meeting is concerned with the mother and the baby as Spiritual Beings rather than as bodies, and with what things Beings can do in childbirth to make it a safe, esthetic experience. It is significant that medical science has not studied relationships between obstetrical difficulties and psychological ‘problems’. It is very clear from our group’s experience that the better a person’s emotional well-being, the easier and less complicated her labor.

Fear:

Anxiety and, to a lesser extent, fear are common in a pregnant woman. There is the fear of pain, fear that “the baby won’t be all right,” fear of not “doing well” in labor (“I might have to ask for something (drugs),”), etc. A woman who is afraid will not labor well because her fear is based on conscious or unconscious inability to confront what is happening. Such a woman’s labor could be prolonged (uterine inertia), difficult, or could even stop cold. Conversely, the woman who is happy, prepared, educated, and confident will have little trouble with her birth, whatever it may be like. Her pain threshold will be higher, and her ability to confront contractions will be greater.

Intuition:

The real basis of confidence is the knowing and the decision by the mother or both parents that things will go well. Doctors and society are kind of trouncing on intuitive knowingness because it supposedly is not based on objective and testable data.-(I know because I know is not acceptable to them.) Most people know more about their own bodies than anyone else. For instance, a pregnant woman in most cases will be the first to know that “Something’s wrong.” One must learn to listen and trust her own intuition and learn to differentiate it from fear, counter postulates, or thinkingness (knowing is different from thinking).

Responsibility:

Basically responsibility has to do with making things go right. I believe—emphatically—in the integrity and the power of Beings themselves; if a person makes the decision that things will go right, then he will do those things in the physical ‘universe’ necessary to make that happen. To begin with, the responsibility for making childbirth safe is primarily the responsibility of the parents and secondarily that of the doctors. A woman can easily get into trouble the minute she relinquishes the responsibility for her own body and that of her baby to anyone else. This responsibility may be shared with another who has greater knowledge, but final decisions should rest with the person involved. There are several areas in which an expectant mother and her partner can take responsibility for their own children’s births. The mother should get good prenatal care in which every possible problem is explored and resolved. The parents need to have enough knowledge and intuition to judge medical competence and to see that those present at the birth are experienced and intelligent enough to handle the unexpected and are unobtrusive to the laboring woman. A pregnant woman must be responsible enough to eat well. She needs a good deal of rest, particularly as her- due date draws near, because pain tolerance goes down proportionately to how tired the body is. She should regularly practice her labor techniques so that when the birth time comes she can handle each contraction instead of being overwhelmed by pain, and can actively work to give birth to her baby. The father’s role in birth is significantly greater at home and gives him a much more active involvement in it. It is his responsibility to make sure medical trade-offs are as few as possible. That is, trading the good vibes of home for the disjointed ones of

the hospital, but not sacrificing valid medical knowledge. While the woman is involved with her labor, her husband should make sure the labor room is as clean as possible, that the attendants are clean and are wearing clean clothes, that there is a phone available, that an alternate emergency plan exists and is well understood by attendants, that the hospital and the routes to it are known, that there is available transportation and extra people to carry the mother to the car if need be, and that all attendants know what to do whether the labor is normal or not. Lastly and most importantly, it is the husband’s responsibility to see that no one upsets his wife, to coach her so that she does her job perfectly, and to see that the environment is quiet and calm.

Tonya Brooks M.S. L.M. gentlebirthcenter@gmail.com Tonya Brooks M.S. L.M. has been in clinical practice as a midwife for 37 years operating the Natural Birth and Womens Center for 28 years. She has delivered over 5000 babies at home, in birth centers and hospitals. She is a research scientist and has ongoing research to prevent brain injury, obstetric hemorrhage, and gestational diabetes. She is Founder of the Association for Childbirth at Home International (ACHI). Tonya is scheduled to open a Brand New Birth Center in Sherman Oaks to serve families in the greater Los Angeles area August Ist.

Pain Threshold:

Contractions themselves are the smallest part of labor: even though they take place over a period from a few to many hours, and each can last as long as two minutes or more, each of those contractions only contains a few seconds of real pain. One can easily be overwhelmed by the pain, without information as indeed many of our mothers were. (In these cases, drugs, however harmful they are, once seemed like a Godsend.) There are several things that can be done, however, to raise a laboring woman’s pain threshold so that she can control her labor contractions. First, as I have already mentioned, a pain threshold will drop significantly if a woman Is tired, so that rest in the last months of pregnancy Is of great importance. The pain threshold will be higher on a confident, well-prepared mother. But the most important tool a woman has in confronting and handling pain Iles in the concept called “staying in present time.” When overwhelmed by pain, one tends to experience a diminishing of analytical awareness, and the subconscious mind takes over. One begins to subconsciously associate the present pain with all similar pain which one has experienced in the past, and one has a much more overwhelming feeling than just the sensation actually experienced in the present.

Trauma:

Trauma prolongs labor significantly because it upsets the Being and interrupts the body rhythms of labor. This is why a ride to the hospital and hospital routines and procedures are so damaging to the laboring woman. First there is the ride itself. Then she must be admitted (which might cause her to worry about the money). Next comes the “prep”; she is shaved, given an enema and showered. Next she goes to the labor room where she may be plugged into a fetal heart monitor (two electrodes are placed up the vagina and skewer the baby’s head to monitor its heart beat and the strength of the contraction). Then she is taken to the delivery room where she is placed on a small table with her legs strapped in stirrups. After the delivery of the baby, the woman is brought to the recovery room where she is watched if she is recuperating from drugs or not watched if she has delivered “normally.” Finally, she goes to her own room, where she might get to see her baby, depending on how long the doctor and hospital separate the mothers from their babies for the “observation period.” Any upsets should be avoided during labor because psychological or physiological upset can cause the body to react and sometimes labor will stop—cold turkey. This happens so often in hospitals that they may give routine doses of Pitocin, a synthetic pituitary hormone which speeds up the body and causes the uterus to contract. This hormone also of ten puts the baby Into acute stress (thus the medical justification for the fetal heart monitor) and forces doctors to use forceps to yank the baby out fast. Psychological upsets do not only occur in hospitals. They can happen at home as well, perhaps caused by something as simple as a loud noise or an unsupportive remark by an attendant. Antagonistic, non-supportive, or fearful people should never be allowed at any birth because they undermine confidence. Every effort should therefore be made to make the home a quiet, safe space filled with good and loving vibrations. Lastly, It should be reiterated that upsets, however small, interrupt the physiological rhythms of the body, thereby prolonging labor. The evidence that bears this Out is that the average length of labor for a first baby in the United States is 12 to 24 hours (not using Pitocin), while the average length of labor in 51 mothers from ACAH has been 5 1/2 hours!

Control of Contractions:

If a woman is overcome by pain during labor and particularly during birth, she will probably not experience the ecstasy of the birth and she may even be unable to relate emotionally to her child. If this happens, a dreadful guilt will often ensue. This sequence of events is relatively common and frequently causes post-partum depression. It is more likely to happen in an undrugged birth. Therefore.1 would like to emphasize that the laboring woman stay on top of the contractions so that she is not overcome by pain.

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Perinatal Depression and Anxiety: by Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D., LMFT

The most common complication of pregnancy

here is no more profound transition in the life of a woman than her passage into motherhood. It touches us at so many different levels – physiologically, emotionally, psychologically and even spiritually. With motherhood comes a pronounced shift in our internal sense of us in the world. This psychological metamorphosis often feels like a crisis of identity as new mothers try to adjust to the sudden and dramatic change in their lives. It can often seem as though we are teetering between two worlds – the familiar world we left behind – the world where routine, time, companionship and freedom were an expected constant -and the current world which, particularly during the first year postpartum, is unpredictable, routine-less, and certainly lacking in the freedom to move about our day without having to first consider the seemingly relentless needs and requirements of a newborn. In order to fully embrace motherhood, we need to mourn the life that appears to have been left behind so that we can create a successful balance between that life we knew and the eye-opening physical and emotional challenges of the first year postpartum. Our ideas about “good” mothers are embedded in social and cultural expectations and further complicated by the many myths that have a pervasive influence on how new mothers believe they should look and how they should feel. Societal messages about mothering as automatic and instinctive, beliefs that the initial bond with their babies must be instantaneous and magnetic leaves so many new mothers feeling discouraged and disappointed when they come face to face with the discrepancies between cultural fantasies and the realities of motherhood. In fact, the myths of motherhood play such an important role in the psychology of pregnancy and the postpartum period that these idealized notions leave many women vulnerable to the downward spiral of depression. Interestingly, there are more psychiatric admissions around the child-bearing years than at any other time in the female life cycle. And statistically, approximately15% of women each year will suffer with some form of postpartum depression. Even pregnancy, once thought to be protective against depression and anxiety, is now understood to be a delicate time for the emergence of mood-related disorders. The perinatal period and the accompanying risks for a mood or anxiety disorder begin at conception and extend through the first year postpartum. As many as 3 out of 4 women who give birth will experience some anxiety-related symptoms following childbirth – tearfulness, sleep and appetite disruptions, as well as mild ups and downs in mood. In most cases, the stresses of birthing and the expected period of adjustment to this profound life change along with the sudden and dramatic shifts in hormonal levels following childbirth are at the origin of the baby blues. These mild and transient symptoms, which feel very much like the emotional changes around the menstrual cycle, and are actually considered a normal part of postpartum adjustment, usually surface around the third or fourth day after delivery and then diminish by two to three weeks postpartum. Postpartum depression has a more extensive list of symptoms than the baby blues and there are a number of ways in which these symptoms present from woman to woman. The most common presentation of postpartum depression is with anxiety that is often so extreme, mothers feel paralyzed and unable to cope with the needs of their infants. There are dramatic interruptions in sleep and appetite along with sensations of “fogginess,” and detachment from their babies, the latter often described as “going through the motions,” of responding to their babies, but unable to feel affection and love. In other types of postpartum depression, mothers may be bombarded by intruding thoughts and images, often so disturbing, that they invent strategies to avoid what they believe may be inevitable as experienced through the pictures and ideas in their head. They may be counting bottles and diapers, or checking multiple times to see if their babies are breathing, unable to sleep, with eyes and ears glued to the baby

monitor. They may believe their babies are ill, despite all reassurances from the pe- Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D., LMFT diatrician. Others may be overwhelmed by The Center for Postpartum Health panic attacks that can feel just like a heart 18719 Calvert St., Tarzana, CA 91335 attack, and can even awaken them out of 818.887.1312 their sleep. For some women, unexpected www.postpartumhealth.com events during birth can cause trauma. www.themotherhoodconsortium.com Sometimes, the act of giving birth can be a painful reminder of traumatic events that Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D is an internationally have occurred earlier in their lives leaving recognized expert on the assessment and treatthem feeling powerless and victimized. ment of perinatal mood disorders. She is in priAlthough exceedingly rare, and af- vate practice with offices in Tarzana, Pasadena fecting only 1 or 2 out of every thousand and Beverly Hills. A past president of Postpartum women who give birth, postpartum psycho- Support International, Dr. Barnes is a member of sis is a potentially life-threatening medical the Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health emergency that requires immediate treat- Task Force and the statewide California Maternal ment. It is important to note that psychosis Mental Health Collaborative. She is the co-author is not a severe form of postpartum depres- of The Journey to Parenthood: Myths, sion, but exists as a completely separate Reality and What Really Matters. disorder. Postpartum Depression does not evolve into Postpartum Psychosis. It is considered a bipolar episode; therefore, women with personal or family histories of Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder seem to be at increased risk. It is not necessary to wait until you give birth to “find out” whether you are one of the 800,000 to 1 million women each year who experience postpartum depression. Identifying your risks during pregnancy, and even before conception, can be critical to protecting yourself from a severe symptoms of perinatal illness and in a number of cases, actually prevent the onset of a perinatal mood disorder. If your obstetrician doesn’t ask you about your risks and you believe that you might be, let him know that you think you may be at risk so that you can receive a proper referral to a perinatal psychiatrist or a therapist who specializes in reproductive mental health. Some of the biological and genetic risk factors include the following: • A personal or family history of depression or anxiety • A personal or family history of bipolar disorder • Depression and/or anxiety during pregnancy (the most significant predictor of postpartum depression) • A previous episode of postpartum depression (women with one untreated episode raise their risk for a more severe recurrence in the next pregnancy by 50 – 75%). • A family history of postpartum depression • Significant mood changes around the menstrual cycle • A personal or family history of thyroid illness The most common complication of pregnancy is perinatal depression and anxiety. However, with proper care, these illnesses are among the easiest to treat. If you are experiencing depression during pregnancy or in the postpartum period, it is essential that you remind yourself that you are not to blame for how you are feeling and have done nothing wrong to cause the depression, that you are not alone because there are a growing number of health care providers who are understanding more about the nature of this disorder and because there are avenues to seek out emotional support, and finally, with the proper treatment, you will get well.

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nursing occasionally extinguish sexual desire. This is attributed ‘physiologically to increased hormonal activity, but I believe it to be psychological in origin. A woman can let herself make love if her husband wants to and she is understanding and patient, and quite often she will be glad she did, but both partners must be tolerant, reasonable, and patient. Communication is always the key to working out sexual problems, but people must be willing to tell each other what is happening, and each must be willing to accept what the other is saying without being defensive. One of the reasons sexuality is emotionally difficult for the pregnant woman is social conditioning about vaginal size. As evidence, there are dirty jokes and songs, Germaine Greer’s idea of “Cunt Hatred,” and doctors’ ‘humor,” i.e., “I’m going to sew you up nice and tightly and hubby will really like that” or (as was said to me) “Let me sew you up so you won’t flap in the breeze.” If her husband can understand these thoughts, it will be easy to see the reservations about making love which many pregnant women or new mothers may have. Women should, know that sagging, loose muscles, both vaginal and abdominal, can always be exercised into perfect original shape, and that cotton underwear facilitates post-birth healing because of increased air circulation. Stretch marks and other body alterations after-pregnancy can be big ego deflators. The only thing one can do is consider stretch marks as stretch marks, and make no associations. Would an appendectomy scar be an ego deflator? I don’t think so. I don’t think there is any doubt that lovemaking can transcend the physical plane. Birth should be looked at as a beautiful, productive end to the conceiving union as well as the beginning of a new family.

She should ride the contractions like waves and use Lamaze or Reed breathing techniques as if she were exercising or lifting weights. She should keep her attention focused outward on what she is doing so that she stays in present time. This is her biggest asset, and it is her husband’s responsibility to see that she does so. Women should also be aware of the fact that babies in the posterior or unusual positions cause much harder labors and require the mother to have an even better confrontation of the pain because when the contractions let up, the pain often does not stop.

Separation Trauma:

Separation trauma is upset which is experienced by mother and baby when the baby is removed from Its mother for an “observation period” in the hospital. The big danger for the mother is post-partum depression (a conservative estimate is that about 65 percent of the women in this country experience It), difficulty accepting the baby, and guilt. Separation trauma is a very big issue because so much is involved. First, there is a physical loss of mass (baby, water, and placenta) and the body’s corresponding shock which is physiological in origin. Second, the psychological trauma of separation to mother and baby is usually devastating to them both. Dr. Ashley Montagu describes. It beautifully in Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin; Dr. Lee Salk’s studies of premature babies showed that even the ones who had medical justification for being in an incubator responded better when their mothers were allowed to take them out to feed and fondle them.

Sexuality and Childbirth:

I noticed after several meetings of ACHI that the most often discussed subjects were episiotomies and circumcision, even though they were not, by any means the most important subjects. This seems to indicate everyone’s great concern with their own sexuality. The sexual issue takes on even greater importance when the metaphysical issues are considered. The following thoughts have been taken from the combined experiences of the participants at our meetings and are valuable because they are based on common sense and are practical. In regard to lovemaking, expectant couples can make love as long as the woman feels physically able and so long as there is no vaginal bleeding. Lovemaking should be gentle because tissues in pregnant women are softer and often more tender than usual. Sexuality during pregnancy is sometimes a problem because pregnancy and

Family Considerations:

In home birth, the father has a great deal of responsibility and actually makes it possible for his child to be born safely. It is much easier for him to meet his new child at home where integration into the family is not interrupted by hospital stay. The ecstasy of childbirth in not an ending, but a beginning. Likewise for siblings, new babies are more accepted if. They know where the baby comes from of course at home the mother is not separated from her older children. They can actually watch the birth If they are mature enough to be still and quiet. The greatest psychological issue is that a small new body is animated by a spiritual Being, and as such birth welcomes that Being into a new existence. The optimum place for the baby to meet his family and begin life anew is in the home where the environment is quiet, not traumatic to mother and baby, and controlled by the parents……”

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Just Love: by Karen Maezen Miller

The first and last word on motherhood.

Excerpted from Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood by Karen Maezen Miller, published by Shambhala Publications.

t strikes me as best to begin with love. The word will never again mean so much. Of course you love your spouse. You love your parents and brothers and sisters. You love your friends. You love your home, and perhaps your hometown. You love your dog. You may love your work. You might attest to loving your alma mater, mashed potatoes or reading on a rainy day. But this is love. The feeling you have for your child is so indescribably deep and consuming that it must qualify as one of the few transcendent experiences in your plain old ordinary life. It occurs spontaneously as part of afterbirth. It is miraculous and supreme and irrevocable. It makes all things possible. There is a certain attitude, perhaps unavoidable, that most of us seem to adopt as we grow up. It is a kind of self-satisfied conclusion that our parents didn’t love us. Oh, they might have loved us, but they didn’t love us enough. They didn’t love us the right way. They didn’t love us just so. Have your own child and you will penetrate into the utter absurdity of that idea. You will love your child as your parents loved you and their parents loved them. With a love that is humbling and uncontrived, immense and indestructible. Parents err, of course, and badly. They can be ignorant, foolish, mean and far worse, in ways that you can come to forgive in them and try to prevent in yourself. But this wholesale shortage of parental love at the crux of everyone’s story must be the product of shabby and self-serving recollections. Now that you are a mother, set that story aside, forgetting everything you thought you knew about love. When my daughter was born, I saw my husband fall in love for the first time. He is a good and loyal man, and he loves me. But he has never lost his footing with me, not in the goofy, tumbledown way he surrendered on first sight to his baby girl. Within days of bringing our tiny daughter home, my husband took dibs on the nighttime feedings. Born six weeks early, she had mastered bottle-feeding in the hospital nursery but was weak and reluctant at the breast. There was a double bed crowded into our nursery, a relic of its days as a guest room, and there he slept, inches away from the mews, rasps and mysterious eaps that emanated from her crib. He slept there eagerly and even well, waking every three hours to dispense her bottles. Although most nights I was waking too, like a shell-shocked soldier, to pump my raw and weeping breasts, the nights belonged to him. So intense were his affections that I was jealous. Not jealous of him, jealous of her. He was hurrying home in the late afternoons to see her. Calling home hourly to check on her. Cradling her in the warm hollow of his chest for that last hour of sleep at dawn’s early light. How could he possibly love an old, tired, slob of a frump like me anymore? I looked at my love struck husband, looking at her, and raised an eyebrow. I was all wound up and wrong-headed, and I hadn’t yet realized that there was plenty of love to go around. Leave it to our cat to state the obvious. She was a whiny

Karen Maezen Miller www.karenmaezenmiller.com Karen Maezen Miller is a wife, mother, and Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of two books on spirituality in everyday life, Momma Zen and Hand Wash Cold. She lives with her family in Sierra Madre and offers meditation workshops and parenting programs around the country. Find her writing online at www.karenmaezenmiller.com.

and temperamental thing, and we expected her to make trouble when the baby came home – jumping in the crib, taking wide swipes and big bites out of the unsuspecting adversary. I had searched the baby stores and Internet for some kind of delicate-looking defense that I could install over the crib to keep our sweet kitty from eating the rival child. I’d draped a mosquito net over the bed to foil the attack. The cat knew better; the cat knew everything, and she recognized a good thing when she saw it. Within hours of our arrival from the hospital the cat was sitting peaceably as close to the three of us as she could get. Forever after, there would never be the slightest menace in her approach. The net over the crib would only ensnare dust. Our family was a love fount, and kitty was more than happy just to be in on the overflow. In these early and unending days I was exhausted all of the time and depressed most of the time, but I came to a different and awed understanding of what life is. It’s not what you think it is. First, what you call your life is not yours at all – not yours to plan, manipulate or control, at least not very often. That’s a staggering realization. I was humiliated to see that the maturity and serenity I thought I had achieved was simply the result of having things my way all the time. If life wasn’t mine, what was it? In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the absolute truth of life: the unbroken line of love that had led to my existence, and would lead on through my daughter. My mother’s love, her mother’s love, her mother’s love and back and back forever ago. Love that is no mere word; love that goes beyond feeling; love that is life itself. I was filled with a rush of respect for all mothers everywhere. This was how we all got here. What miracles, what sacrifice, what love! I never knew, nor could I have, before now. Can you imagine this love? Can you anticipate it, fabricate it, measure and evaluate it? No, you can’t, you can only be love, and your child will release its magnitude within you. Turns out you can take or leave the mashed potatoes. No matter how miserable I was at the moment, I knew that life itself was overwhelmingly and infinitely good. This is the balm for all the bad days ahead. This is the only fix. This is the source and strength that lifts you up as you bottom out time and again. Just love.

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Be Here Now & Always: by Celine Malanum, CLEC BreastfeedLA

Awareness and creative celebration in your breastfeeding journey It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. –Honore De Balzac, French novelist and playwright

Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles 213.596.5776 www.breastfeedla.org The Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater LA offers a variety of opportunities for education and involvement for professionals and laypersons alike, through workshops, internet links on its website, and joining forces with others to create the kind of supportive climate we would wish for mothers, babies and families who choose breastfeeding. Consider attending a Breastfeeding Task Force Meeting. Meetings are held quarterly, in Inglewood, from 9am to 12pm, are free and open to mothers and professionals. For more information about the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles, and links to other breastfeeding information and activities, visit the Breastfeeding Task Force on the web at www.breastfeedla.org. Babies are born to breastfeed!

h Honore, that’s sweet! But clearly your have never boarded the Breastfeeding Bullet Train (nor could you, being a man and all.) There are many visible and tangible ways a mother can realize her motherhood—I sure remember seeing and feeling a whole lot in labor. And there are telling moments much later, like when your child exhibits your mannerisms, or when you hear your thoughts coming out of your child’s mouth. Yet the transformative processes of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding, though, are surely the first most powerful ways a woman experiences her own motherhood. But breastfeeding being “a joy of every moment?” Personally, I can attest to a few things putting the old damper on all those joys—teeth, toddlerhood, time, and territory (this is still my body, right?). My daughter was born in August 2009, so I’ve been actively breastfeeding for 2 years and 10 months. Thanks to a handy online date duration website, I can now say I’ve been breastfeeding for all of the following measurements of time: • 1048 days • 25,152 hours • 1,509,120 minutes • 90,547,200 seconds … and counting! And yes, I realize I haven’t actually been breastfeeding my child every single moment in that time period. Although trust, sometimes it has felt that way. Mothers who have breastfed while peeing to appease a screaming child, or done the in-car acrobatics move… I am doing a silent, invisible, fist pump of solidarity with you right now. But those 1,048 days and counting remain my body of breastfeeding work, if you will. It remains one of the greatest, most difficult accomplishments of my life. And it remains the singular life process that I think I have reflected upon the least! Breastfeeding initially just happens to you as a new mother, but that foreign act turns into a journey marked with complexity and change—one that begs to be experienced deeply and richly. There must be a better way to record and reflect back upon our breastfeeding experience. My remembrance of my breastfeeding years cannot be a bunch of pages with chicken scratch grids and messy notes like “12:15pm… 14 minutes left breast, 7 minutes right breast… extra rank runny poo, greenish, call LC?” Imagine how much time, money, thought, and painstaking detail some people go through to record their wedding day— an important life event to be sure, but one that is not even 24 hours long! Breastfeeding can span days for some mothers, years for others. This time is much too meaningful, and much too short in the big scheme of things to let slip by without honoring it—visibly, tangibly, and why not creatively.

Part 1: Be Here Now Become more aware of each breastfeeding moment.

(You’ll notice many of these are adapted yoga and meditation techniques.) 1) Turn it off and put it away. I notoriously grab my cell phone or laptop first and my daughter second when it’s time for “mimi.” It’s hard to pass up the quiet time that nursing affords me—I have to make use of it somehow, right? Do I think my flowing breast milk, with its preventative and curative powers, creates an impenetrable force field against the buzzing radiation as I surf BBC and Facebook? And what message does that send to my daughter, that as she nurses and her eyes rise instinctively and habitually up to her mother’s face, my eyes are fixed on a electronic device? The news, the stress from slow-loading photos or urgent emails from someone needing something from you, the gossip, the dress on sale—those will all be there after she latches off. 2) Practice deep breathing exercises while your baby is at the breast. Whatever position you are in, try to align yourself and babe so your back is not crunched. Inhale through your nose for 5 counts, hold for 5 counts, and slowly exhale out for 5 counts. Try to inhale deeply, filling even your lower lungs and belly with air, and then let all that air out—hopefully with any tension, too. Breathing deeply helps with more oxygen and blood flow to your body, and controlled, pattern breathing helps you focus and quiet your mind. So often when we breastfeed, we are thinking about so many things—what’s for dinner, did I pump enough for work tomorrow, where is my other child, did I send that bill in yet, what side of the street am I parked on, wait—what day is it, even? Allow those thoughts to flow in, but allow them to also flow right back out with each deep, conscious breath. 3) Check In With Your Emotions. Take a moment to check in and identify how you are feeling as you and your child settle into a breastfeeding session. Maybe you are feeling rested and peaceful, maybe sad, maybe anxious. Saying the emotion out loud can

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Your Breastfeeding Journey ...continued from previous page have great results too! Saying, “Oh boy, I feel joyful and excited right now!” with a smile on your face is almost guaranteed to elicit one from baby. Alternately saying out loud that you are upset, or stressed, or very sad can also be powerful—sometimes naming those negative emotions frees them and takes some of their weight off our shoulders. Or taking a moment can reveal something—maybe watching your baby eat will remind you that you haven’t eaten since breakfast and you’re hungry! 4) Take Inventory Using Your Five Senses. Take a moment to “check in” with each of your five senses—sight, smell, sound, touch, taste—and see how your body is experiencing this moment breastfeeding. Focus on one at a time. Sight—notice the colors of your baby’s face, the stop-start wiggling of his toes. Notice the fraying rug and your mismatched socks! Notice where the light falls on your own body. Smell—yes, crunch over and inhale the top of baby’s head, or the corner of her swaddling blanket. Is there sweetness, is there something sour? Sound—hear baby’s satisfied sigh, or the whirr of the pump, or your own quiet voice humming a lullaby. Touch—feel his body warm and heavy in your arms—wriggling, writhing, relaxed? Feel your own eyelids grow heavy, or the sting of a strong letdown reflex, or baby’s hand palming your breast. Taste –what do you sip as your nurse? Taste the cold, lemon iced tea, or the textured smoothie, or the sweet, hot coffee. I always manage to sneak my toddler’s hand or toes in my mouth for a kiss, and her skin is often salty with sweat, but always sweetly familiar.

Part II: Remember Always Creatively honor and archive your breastfeeding experience.

What is your artistic avenue? Writing, singing, dancing, sculpting, mixed media, painting, knitting, guitar—all of these and more are perfect ways to creatively celebrate breastfeeding. 1) Keep a breastfeeding journal—not just a log! Get one that has a beautiful cover that invites and inspires you. Or use an old school black and white composition book and personalize it with photos, magazine cutouts, and quotes. Write about your breastfeeding journey here—the milestones, the daily funnies, questions you have, even confessions. This is a time to employ free writing—“flow of consciousness” writing where you let your pen go, without much stopping and without any judgment. If you prefer, sketch and draw things in your journal instead! Or snip and collect for a later scrapbook or art project. But if you are able to jot down even a few thoughts or emotions after just one breastfeeding session every day or couple of days—soon you will have a rewarding journal filled with remembrances of your breastfeeding experience. 2) Get professional breastfeeding photos done. I won a photography nursing session from Little L.A. Photography in a raffle, and I will be honest, my first reaction was: Man, I really wanted that massage gift card. Or even that cool vintage tea service set even though I don’t like tea. But I did the session and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. The photographer was also a doula, mother, and currently breastfeeding. She was overjoyed at my request to include my husband, and we took pictures outside at the same park we were married. I felt beautiful, strong, natural, and incredibly womanly as she took photos of my daughter nursing under the trees, and us as a breastfeeding family. I can happily part with 90% of my unflattering, awkward self-portraits courtesy of my cell phone, now that I have a set of quality photos. You can ask a friend with a great camera, or do some research and find photographers who won’t break the bank. 3) Create a special song you sing during breastfeeding sessions. Your song doesn’t need to be Diane Warren-worthy, heck it doesn’t even have to be yours! I changed the lyrics to “You Are My Sunshine” so it would be special for my daughter. I also sing Tom Waits “Picture in a Frame” to her, with just a couple of personal changes like adding her name and nicknames in. Now, I can sing those songs to her or to myself, and instantly feel connected with my breastfeeding experience—the deliciously quiet moments when it’s just the two of us snuggled in bed, or the sweaty zombie days of yore when I nursed, swaddled, shushed, and swung her while singing those songs on repeat for hours on the patio. But now those wonderful and challenging moments have a soundtrack, special just for the two of us. 4) Share your breastfeeding remembrances with others. There is great catharsis in sharing something personal and creative with others. Make sure you have the right audience—supportive people are key. You need someone judging your poem, song, or painting like you need someone telling you, “Cover up, sweetie. You’re in public, dear.” To share your personal and unique breastfeeding experience within the context of hearing other stories gives yours new complexity and meaning! It becomes a creative and emotional give-and-take whether you share your stories between two mothers, or a support group, or with a large mixed group of moms, dads, extended family, and friends!

World Breastfeeding Month is August, and the 20th Annual World Breastfeeding Week is August 1-7.

This year’s theme is “Understanding the Past—Planning the Future: Celebrating 10 years of WHO/UNICEF’s Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.” On the website, www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org, the organizers explain that the theme encourages the breastfeeding community to look back over the last 10 years of the initiative, but also the last 20 years of World Breastfeeding Week, and to reflect on all the many events and changes. It is in this vein, that we mothers, as half of the dynamic dyad at the innermost core of the breastfeeding community, should celebrate World Breastfeeding Week by reflecting back upon our own breastfeeding journey.

2nd Annual Breastfeeding Open Mic

If you’re in the Los Angeles area—come and share your story, song, or more at the 2nd Annual Breastfeeding Open Mic on Saturday July, 28th from 7:30-10pm at Viento y Agua Coffeehouse in Long Beach!

Bittersweet

by Celine Malanum for my grandmother, Lola Flor, who breastfed two babies during wartime and didn’t bat an eye when I breastfed mine Last summer Lola threw a wrench in the game. When on one hot July afternoon stuck in the heat of a trailer park hot box my daughter took a break from play. Stopped rearranging her dolls on the wood chest quit swatting at imaginary flies with a Japanese fan was done ripping the paper off crayons and halving them. No longer finding joy in these tasks, having hit the The Wall, only one thing remaining to make it right again. I gave her my breast and watched her cheeks swell. Her toes of peeling pink polish curl and uncurl. The busy dusty feet crossed at the ankles slowly start to relax, hang heavy with ease. Somewhere between the swallows, a sigh of contentment. I can barely stay awake. Then, my grandmother, my Lola, pipes up and the game begins. She asks my daughter as she always does: Pearl, will you share? Come on, share with your Lola. Poor Lola. Pity me. I’m hungry! Won’t you share with me? Please. And Pearl, innocent delicious brat, the glorious shining imp, opens her mouth. Doesn’t even swallow. Lets a little creamy white dribble out (she’s really quite brutal) smirks and gives always the same reply: No, Lola, no! No mimi for you. Mine. Then the great grandmother and the great grandchild laugh. The eldest root and the brand new sapling playing their roles in their favorite game. But that afternoon Lola added a new line: Pearl, what does your mama’s mimi taste like? Children and old people are the only ones who really say what they really mean. I don’t know what got into me. Maybe the heat. Maybe my own curiosity. But I gently nudged my daughter off, stood up, walked to the kitchen and got a spoon. I drew back the flesh, put the cool metal to my puckered nipple, squeezed again and again until the teaspoon was full. The eggshell liquid quivering against the lip. Nobody said anything as Lola sipped it down in two movements. Her sweet cloudy eyes gently closed and she mused: Hmmm, matamis – sweet. Her tongue rolled around in her mouth. I heard her dentures clack. Ay ay, she quietly puffed. Mapait – bitter. And how for one moment my child, my grandmother – I nourished you both. The three of us intimately connected in that steaming capsule of a home. A part of me in both of you. How I never felt more like a mother! Flesh, blood, bone, milk. Alive and powerful, grateful and exhausted. I loved you the most plain way I could. I fed you. Pearl went back to mutilating crayons. Lola went back to reading the sensational Filipino newspaper. I drank some ice water that never tasted so good.

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Things That Are Up: Trees, Airplanes and Mom! Dr. JoBea Holt Author of Baby’s Day Out in Southern California – Fun Places to Go With Babies and Toddlers (Gem Guides Co.) – a travel guide to you find more adventures for your baby.

Dr. JoBea Holt www.babysdayout.net Dr. JoBea Holt was a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1976 through 1999 where she studied climate change in arctic forests using satellites and the Space Shuttle. She received her Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from Caltech in Planetary Science. In 1999, JoBea left JPL to raise her two children. She is an active leader in Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts, is on the board of her children’s Little League organization, and is currently a member of Al Gore’s Climate Project. Her first non-NASA book, Baby’s Day Out in Southern California, was released in 2003 and again in 2006. (Published by Gem Guides Co.) It is a travel guide to help moms and dads find more adventures for baby.

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rom the perspective of a new baby, most of the world is up: the ceiling, the roof of the buggy, mom’s chin. Since your baby has only a limited time in life to enjoy this unique perspective, you should take every opportunity to make this view as interesting as possible. Southern California offers several excellent locations for outings that have an interesting variety of things that are up. And don’t forget a favorite book by Dr. Seuss: Great Day for Up. For your first up adventure, consider things that are up while you stroll around the block. Look for streetlights, stop signs, and, since this is Southern California, palm trees. Perhaps there is a scolding squirrel or a busy woodpecker on the trunk of the palm tree. Or you might find a few shiny black crows, or a line of doves on a wire, or a chattering flock of parrots. Now that you have been around the block a thousand times and have given names to each and every squirrel, it is time to venture further. A good start for discovering up things is an arboretum. Southern California has several including The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens, The South Coast Botanical Gardens, and Descanso Gardens. You already know how to identify palm trees – now you can expand your silvicultural skills with oaks, bamboo, and banana trees, and, if you go in May, purple flowering Jacarandas. You may even discover a noisy peacock perched on one of the trees trying to attract the attention of the dull-feathered peahens. Going up a little higher, consider flying a kite. Get one that is simple and easyto-fly with lots of colors. A good place to start your kite flying adventure is your local park, but if you are looking for better wind, try the beach. One of the best is Huntington Beach where you can visit the Kite Connection on the Huntington Beach Pier for advice and kites. For a sky filled with colorful kites, mark your calendars for the Huntington Beach Kite Festival and the Festival of the Kite on Redondo Beach Pier. Airplanes are perhaps the next step up, and fortunately Southern California has plenty of airports. Your first choice might be an airport near you, but also consider the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank where you can get a great view of landings and takeoffs from the roof of the short-term parking lot. Be sure to keep you child secure! Or spend the afternoon at Puddingstone Lake in Frank G. Bonelli Park, which is right next to Brackett Air Field. In the summer, the sand beach on the lake has abundant friendly lifeguards and very shallow water. On the weekends, as your baby and you watch the sky, you will see a strange collection of airplanes flying quite low as they leave the airport for their afternoon outing. Puddingstone is also a great place for birds, however, most of them seem to be too lazy to fly, and float around on the water looking for handouts. Don’t forget your breadcrumbs and swim diapers! Continuing higher is one of the first great fascinations of a young child: the Moon. Your child might find the Moon in the evening when it is bright against the dark sky, or in the morning when the white sphere is almost camouflaged against the blue sky. As your child gets older, identify the shapes of the moon (crescent, full and quarter). Ask if they can see the darker areas that were once thought to be seas – and so are called mare – but are actually dark lava plains. Tell your child people once walked on the moon, and they may again in their lifetime. Do you know how many moon boots are on the Moon? My favorite books about the moon for very young children are What the Moon is Like by Franklyn M. Branley, Man on the Moon by Anastasia Suen and, of course, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. Finally, not so far up, but definitely as grand, is one of the best up things: mom. Mom is not only up, but mom also gets you up; sometimes up to her shoulder or even over her head! So pack up your baby and head on up! Happy trails,

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Boobie-Palooza 2012 In honor of Breastfeeding Awareness Month, Berlin Wellness Group and the Pump Station and Nurtury are partnering to present Boobie-Palooza 2012, August 5th at The Ebel in Los Angeles from noon to 4 pm.

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ast year we set out to host a small event designed to bring together information and support regarding breastfeeding for expectant and new families. At times new parents can feel somewhat isolated. We wanted to offer families the opportunity to enjoy a day geared toward helping grow in awareness and education about breastfeeding and early parenthood.” commented Elliot Berlin DC, Founder of Berlin Wellness Group and the Informed Pregnancy Project The community response was overwhelming with well over 400 attendees at the inaugural celebration. One Mom who attended last year’s event says “I came today because I am having trouble, I needed some help and guidance. I felt reinvigorated to keep at this and I do think that the observations and suggestions I leave here with today are already making on impact on the nursing experience for not just the baby but also for on us as a couple.” This year attendance is expected to double. Members of the community are encouraged to take advantage of the free breastfeeding services, attend panel discussions, have questions answered by experts in the field, and to enjoy some much needed pampering, including great food and music. Moms are encouraged to stop by the Lactation Lounge where expert lactation counselors will provide advice and help. They will have the opportunity to chat with doulas to get additional insight and /or referrals from these knowledgeable and experienced family care providers. Moms can stop in and have a licensed massage therapist find those pesky knots and provide some much needed relaxation at no cost. Expert panelists will also be on hand to provide information regarding prenatal and postnatal wellness. Parents will learn about the joys and benefits of wearing their baby at the Pump Station™ Sling Clinic where an instructor will demonstrate a variety of slings and carriers as well as work with them to find the right fit for their baby. There will be plenty of activities for the kids to enjoy in the children’s play area, such as face painting, balloon artists, and a music performance by Papa is a Rolling Stone. Let’s not forget the dads! Dads can enjoy the Beer Garden and yes, there will be food trucks on hand to satisfy cravings. The event promises to be a funfilled family celebration!

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Everything you need for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and baby care. Certified Lactation Consultants on duty: Linda M. Hanna, RNC, IBCLC, Gina Breceda, and Carolyn Bramen Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30 AM–6:00 PM, Sat 10 AM–3 PM, Sun closed. 18399 Ventura Blvd., #14 &15, Tarzana (818)345-6060

Moreser Lactation Resources

Breastfeeding classes prenatal, postpartum, consults in hospital, also at Glendale Memorial Hospital, office, client’s home, breast pump rental and sales, pump delivery, baby weigh scales, nursing bras and nursing wear, available weekends and evenings, credit cards accepted. Tujunga, CA 91042 Please call to schedule appointments: (818) 353-7446 moreserlactation@yahoo.com

Mother Care

Hoag Hospital

Babyline is manned by an IBCLC certified RN available to answer questions M-F, Sa, Su,except holidays. We also have a breastfeeding clinic M-F 11:00-3:00. 949-764-2229

Medical Center of North Hollywood Breastfeeding classes 818-753-2468

Woodland Hills Kaiser

Lactation consultant 818-719-4305

Women’s Pavilion & Resource Ctr

800-779-6636 at Encino-Tarzana Regional MC

Methodist Hospital Arcadia

1-800-950-BABY. The Breastfeeding class fee is : $30 for couples delivering at Methodist Hospital; $35 for others.

Pasadena Public Health Dept. Black Infant Health Program

Breastfeeding & Childbirth & parenting education classes. Free for Medi-Cal eligible 626-744-6093

Whittier Regional Medical Center

Free breastfeeding classes by CLE, MPH 562-947-1451 x 2932

Child/Baby Safety Classes

CLC, store carrying breast pumps, nursing bras, diaper bags and baby items. breastfeeding,mother & baby support group, classes and consultations, infant massage class, and baby sign class, 22554 Ventura Blvd., #112, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 www.thepumpconnection.com (818) 225-8822

The Pump Station & Nurtury™

“The Ultimate Breastfeeding & Baby Care Resource Center and Boutique” 2415 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403 (310) 998-1981 248 Vine St., Hollywood, CA 90038 (323) 469-5300 Village Glen Plaza, 2879 Agoura Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91361 (805) 777-7179 www.pumpstation.com

The Sanctuary Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Sanctuary offers comprehensive, holistic and compassionate wellness and maternity care, doula services, birth and parenting education and lactation support. Lactation consulting, breastfeeding classes and support groups. www.birthsanctuary.com (310) 566-7690

Sharies Lactation Station

20 years of experience as lactation educator providing consultations and selling and renting breast pumps, breastfeeding supplies and nursing bras. Santa Clarita, CA sales@sharieslactation.com (661)-296-1280

Parenting Experience

Mommy, Me and More; Conejo Valley 805-383-0133

Conejo Valley Mom’s Club

Parent Ed. 0-3 years 213-251-7794 ext 205

Julie Johnson CD DONA

Early Parent workshops & ongoing support for new & expect. moms Birth Rights 310-289-9255

Kaiser

NICU Parent Network, peer counseling through “Veteran Parent” program. Last Wed of month, Inland Empire 909-427-6379

LA County USC MC

LA County USC MC Free Baby Care Class-Eng/Span 323-409-2236

Mindful Parenting

Infant/Toddler group 310-271-9999

Mocha Moms

Pasadena chapter - support group for SAHM’s of color www. mochamoms.org

Natural Birth & Woman’s Center

Sibling, parenting and CPR training, ACHI childbirth, breastfeeding support and classes, postpartum support group. (818) 386-1082 www.gr8birth.com

Parenting Ed

Support, playgroups, activities for stay-at-home-moms & children. Conejo Valley, Lisette 805-496-7681

Catherine DeMonte M.A., M.F.C.C. Therapy/Support/Education 818-880-6559 Calabasas, 310-295-2130 Beverly Hills www.catherinedemonte.com

Moms-n-More

Parenting Plus

Upland Moms Club

Parenting Resource

2x month Thurs, Inland Empire, 909-825-6119 Friendship and support for mom Debbie 909-981-5660

Mommy & Me on-the-lap time

Grand Terrace Library Mondays 10am 909-783-0147

MOMS Club

Support group for stay-at-home moms. Outings, playgroups, activites and more. This is a non-profit orginization that has many chapters in the Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernadino Counties. To find out more about the orginization please visit www.momsclub.org. To find out the contact person in your local area, please send an e-mail to momsclubcanw@aol.com

F.E.M.A.L.E.

Ruth J. Gruen 310-287-1920 Pamphlets, books, videos,catalogs, CICC 818-980-0903 Woodland Hills Mothers & More 818-347-4622

Pasadena Calif. Christian Women’s Club

Free nursery at luncheon, Call June 626-358-4876 or Gail 818-952-0351 for reservations

Pomona Valley Hosp Medical Center

Boot Camp for New Dads every month 909-620-MOME; Parenting & teen parenting program 909-620-6663

RIE Parent/Infant Guidance Classes -

e-mail educarer@rie.org, Resources for Infant Educators 323-663-5330

Los Angeles, support groups 310-205-8400

NICU, support group 909-985-2811 ext 3676 Parenting classes, 909-980-BABY (2229)

Mothers & More Pasadena Chapter

The Sanctuary Birth & Family Wellness Center

Infant CPR & Safety, 909-620-MOME

Save a Little Life

CPR & First Aid Richard Pass, 818-344-1442

LA County USC MC

LA County USC MC Free Car Seat Class-Eng/Span 323-409-4580

Total Care 2000

CPR Eng/Span 818-508-6825

White Memorial

Infant CPR Eng 323-265-5050 Span 323-267-4352

Hoag Hospital

Infant CPR & Safety 949-764-BABY

Mommy & Me and Daddy & Me

Focus is on the mother. Our meetings alternate between intellectually stimulating topical meetings and social "moms night out" gettogethers. www.mothersandmorepas.org

New Parent Support and Mommy & Me Los Angeles, Babies welcome 310-477-PLUS

Michelle Barone, MA, MFCC

Mothers of Multiples Club

English/Spanish CPR & First Aid Glendale Advent.

Linda Rose, Honeysucklerose & Yoga Birth - Playgroups

Pediatric CPR & Pediatric Life Support, Eng/Span 818-902-2977 Paramedic instructor. CPR. Eng & Span 818-789-8907 days/eves

Methodist Hosp Arcadia

Child safety & baby-proofing 626-574-3475 to Reg.

Clarence Calhoun

Nuparent 310-319-4000 xt 92888

Westside Crisis Pregnancy Center

“Mommywise” San Fernando Valley 818-841-BABY

Valley Presbyterian Hospital

Valley Pres Hosp

Santa Monica / UCLA Hosp

St Joseph’s Medical Center

San Fernando Valley, Lynda Jacobs 818-713-8747 & Eve Sullivan 818-890-3491

Infant/Toddler Safety 818-409-8100

New Mom Groups, Breastfeeding Support, New Dad Support Groups, Sibling Preparation Class, Infant Massage, Family Therapy, Hospital Birth Preparation, Home Birth Preparation. 310-566-7690 www.birthsanctuary.com

Verdugo Hills Hospital

Baby Safe 949-499-7514 CPR, Etc. - Private. Offered at home, church, temple, for groups & individ. In Eng. & Span. Ellen Steinberg RN 818-345-4439

San Antonio Community Hospital

Mothers Support Group, children ok, San Fernando Valley 818-951-7744

South Coast MC

Natural Birth & Woman’s Center

The Pump Connection

Mommy & Me Classes/Playgroups

Lisa Fuquay

Pomona Valley

at our location or yours Ms. Dennis 310-266-2845 or 323-298-1516

Natural Birth & Woman’s Center

A maternity center that caters to the needs of pregnant women. Childbirth classes, maternity fashion, diaper bags, slings, baby wear, breast pump prental and sales, lactation consultation, Pregnancy massage center, pregnancy photography, and more! New classes added regularly. 239 N. Euclid Aveue, Upland, CA www.pamperedpregnancy.net 909-932-1144

(805) 667-2229 www.Venturabirthcenter.net We offer Birth Center Birth, Homebirth, Waterbirth, Lactation classes, and Well Woman Services

Young Moms Support & Info. 818-988-4430; Melody-Joy McLaughlin (British) RN, RM, CIFC, Pre/Postnatal Ed 818-785-3790

Adult/Infant/Child CPR

Training Solutions

Pampered Pregnancy

UCLA Maternity Associates, A Midwifery and Obstetric Partnership

Friends of the Family

For moms setting aside careers to care for child. Evenings without child. Los Angeles, Leslie 310-827-3779

Private breastfeeding assistance in clients home or at MotherCare Center. Breastpump rental and sales. Prenatal classes, support group and infant massage. Pamela Hastings, RN, IBCLC and Laura Karr, RN, IBCLC. 5212 Katella Ave., Suite 103-A, Los Alamitos, CA 90720 www.mothercarelactation.com (562) 421-CARE (562-421-2273) Breastfeeding classes and support, parenting classes, doulas, nutritional support, individual birth plans - home, birth center, hospital, water labor, water birth, and VBAC. FREE TOUR. www.gr8birth.com (818) 386-1082

South Coast Midwifery and Women’s Health Care

Breastfeeding support group 626-296-1000

Birthing Project, Healthy Babies Alliance

Mom’s support group incl. nursing in public 323-969-0790

Birth & Beyond

www.dy-dee.com(800) (800) 80-dydee www.dy-dee.com 80-dydee

(949)-654-2727 www.southcoastmidwifery.com Orange County’s oldest and most established birth center. A warm, nurturing place. Birthing options include home, birth center and water birth. Free consultations. 4650 Barranca Parkway, Irvine

125-C North Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92701 (714) 879-1303 bellysprout.com 13743 Riverside Drive, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 Green Boutique. Eco-friendly products. Childbirth workshops. www.Binibirth.com 818-286-3944

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“New Moms in Touch” support group for moms with infants 0-6 months; Parenting series for 2-6 year olds 818-902-2977. 8 weeks-1 year & Babycare & Conscious Parenting classes 818-994-7809 honsucklerose @aol.com

A Mother’s Gathering

(0-12 months) Kindermusic, San Fernando Valley 818-380-3111

New Mother’s Forum Free discussion group 818-952-3532 Free preg. test kits. Maternity & baby clothing. 24hr hotline 310-581-1140

Crispen Williams, MA

Reg MFT Intern IMF 39218 Supervisor: E. Shatzkin, MFC 35359 Psych-ed groups teaching ex-spouses & step-parents to coparent. Cert. CoMama Group Facilitator 310-843-2700

Photography Anamaria Brandt Fine Art Photography

Prenatal, infants, children and family photos. www.photodiversions.com, 714-730-5050

Baby’s First Impression

Citrus Valley M.C. QoV Campus

4d ultrasound images. www.babysfirstimpression.com, 909-946-5410

Foothill Presbyterian Hospital

Specialize in pregnancy photography. www.ALaModePhoto.com 310-770-2676

Baby & Me, play group for teen parents 626-813-2844 Babies welcome 818-963-8411 ext 3399

Big Belly Photography

Huntington Memorial Baby & Me

Brubaker Photography

CPR, Parenting, Sibling, Breastfeeding, and Childbirth classes. (818) 386-1082 www.gr8birth.com

Babydays Mom & Baby Group

Day One Photography

Huntington Memorial

Chapman Family Center

Infant CPR 626-357-3100

Infant/Child CPR & Safety 626-397-8768

Safety In Motion

Car Seat Education. At-home car seat installation & education day/evening/weekend appts available 714 264-2924 www.safetyinmotion.org

626-397-8768

Santa Monica 310-869-7297

“Mommy & Me,” “Working Moms,” & “Fathers/Expectant Fathers” 310-453-5144 - 3 hr. sessions in the RIE method 310-453-5144

The Early Childhood Parenting Center

Lamaze, Breastfeeding & CPR 310-643-5117

Was primary prevention program at Cedars-Sinai for over 30 years and are now a freestanding non-profit located at Westside locations. We offer free WarmLine service, Parent-infant, toddler, single parent and working parent groups. fees are $120-130/month and some scholarships. Phone 310-281-9770 www.parentingtots.com

Total Child Safety

YWCA Santa Monica/Westside

Dr. Lois Schunk, MFT, LCCE, CLE

Home & Car Seat Safety Class / Infant & Child CPR Free 805-230-1100

Midwives & Birthing Centers Beach Cities Midwifery & Women's Health Care

949-215-7575 www.beachcitiesmidwifery.com B. J. Snell, PhD, CNM, FACNM. 24902 Moulton Parkway, Suite 120 Laguna Hills, CA 92637

Blessed Beginnings Midwifery

714-639-7530 www.BlessedBeginnings.net Susan Scott Gill, LM, CPM; Lori Luyten, LM, CPM; and Karen Pecora, LM, CPM. Home Birth, water labor and/or birth, supportive environment, support of birth choices and plans, no separation of mother and baby, immediate care of the newborn including full pediatric exam. Dedicated to supporting women through childbearing years including prenatal, labor & birth, postpartum, and well-woman support.

Candace Leach, LM, CPM

Offers Parent and Me Activity Groups for infants through toddlers; Parent Support Classes for ages 1-3 years; Toddler Tumbling classes for ages 2-5; Boogie Woogie Dance classes for 2-3 year olds. (310) 452-3881 www.smywca.org 2019 14th Street, Santa Monica.

Moms Helping Moms

Meetings, playgroups, newsletters 562-933-1670

Parenting Support Classes Dr. Christine Anderson

Board Cert. in Chiropractic Pediatrics. Free classes to help raise healthy children 323-436-2735

Attachment Parenting Int. of Hollywood

4d Sonogram and newborn imaging. www.firstlooksonogram.com 310-543-5152

Janell Mithani Photography

Maternity portraits, newborn/infants, children, cards. www.jmphotostudio.com, 626-798-4167

La Neve Studio

Pregnancy, infant and children and family portraits. Monthly specials. www.lanevephoto.com, Downtown Brea. 714.529.3686

Linnea Lenkus Fine Art Portrait Studios

Fine art pregnancy and baby portraits, cards, albums, boxes. Long Beach (562) 981-8900; Pasadena (626) 744-9104; Irvine, Orange County (949) 753-1600. By appointment only. www.linnealenkus.com

Little Darling’s/Precious Memories Portrait Studio Photography in your home. 888-425-2000

Lori Dorman

Pregnancy,baby and family photography. www.loridorman.com 818-247-0200

Margaret Gruesbeck Photography

CALFAM

Milk and Cookies Photography

Advanced parenting support group. 818-907-9980

The Early Childhood Parenting Center

Tender Loving Childbirth

Creative Parenting Classes

310-566-7690 www.birthsanctuary.com Comprehensive, holistic and compassionate midwifery services to families in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Home birth, water birth, prenatal care, postpartum care, lactation support and well-woman gynecological care. The only Birth Suite in Los Angeles proper.

First Look Sonogram

Fine art photography, birth, pregnancy, infancy and children. www.margaretgruesbeck.com, 626-836-7761

Parent and me education and support groups for infant to three year olds. New groups beginning in September ‘09. www.parentingtots.org

The Sanctuary Birth & Family Wellness Center

Pregnancy, birth, adoption, babies, families and events. www.dayonephoto.com, 310-820-2505

Support group, call Tiffany 818-557-6395

562-272-4541 www.birthgoddess.com Pre-conception, prenatal, homebirth, waterbirth, postpartum, wellwoman & well-baby care. Free consultations. 310-278-6333 www.tenderlovingchildbirth.com Give birth to your baby in the warmth, love and comfort of your own home. Homebirth is safe, natural and empowering. Call today to schedule a FREE homebirth consultation.

Maternity, babies, children, weddings & head shots. http://www.brubakerphotography.com, 310-476-1992

The Parenting Experience, Santa Clarita, 805-383-0133

Vonda Dennis

The Baby Guru, 310-226-7097

Specializing in unique maternity and child portraits, from the tummy to six years old. www.milkandcookiesphotography.com 323.533.4268

Peek-a-Boo Ultrasound

Non-Diagnostic for family, fun, & entertainment. 909-579-8229

Pregnancy Portraits

Specialize in pregnancy photos and newborn sessions. www.pregnancyportraits.net, 818-905-3213

Prenatal Peek

626-335-9817

Newborn imaging. 23161 Ventura Boulevard Suite #207, Woodland Hills, CA. 91367. (818)390-1141 www.prenatalpeek.com/sfvalley

Family Resource Counseling Center

Marlo Yoshimoto Photography

East San Gabriel Valley Mothers of Twins Club Individual psychotherapy, assessment and wide variety of group therapeutic services including infant/ child development and parenting. 310-479-9798

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Childbirth Classes

Pacific Palisades

Hypnobirthing-Leclaire Method Michelle Leclaire O’Neill Ph.D The Magic of Multiples Michelle Leclaire O’Neill Ph.D Hypnobirthing Multiples Michelle Leclaire O’Neill Ph.D

A g o u ra H i l l s / M a l i b u

in your home 310.483.3987 mothernaturebirth@yahoo.com

The Bradley Method ®

Romy Rapoport

Pasadena/Altadena/ Los Angeles

A p p l e Va l l e y

in your home 760.486.4298 www.wombtowalk.com

Childbirth Education

in your home or mine 626.388.2191 www.support4birth.com

Childbirth Preparation Birth Options Consults Breastfeeding Education

Rebecca Noel

Beverly Hills

Maba Beyond Breastfeeding 310.271.2589 atmaba.com

Breastfeeding Newborn Preparation Labor & Delivery Prep Infant Massage CPR and Safety

Carol Levey, C.L.E. Kathryn Auger DONA R.N. Heather Archer CIMI, C.L.E. Barbara Wogh, R.N. BSN

B re a

Natural Life Chiropractic 714.290.3174 dccenteno@msn.com

Bradley® Natural Childbirth Classes

Understanding Birth Coping with Labor Options for Childbirth

Pomona

Private Home 714.290.3174 dccenteno@msn.com

Bradley® Natural Childbirth Classes

Danielle Centeno

Alma Aragon

Parent Education Center 310.326.2764 doulabirthpartners.com

Hypnobirthing

Ellie Shea

Beach Cities Babies 310.372-5511 www.beachcitiesbabies.com

Childbirth Preparation Cesarean Preparation Newborn Care Infant Safety/CPR Breastfeeding Basics

Calabasas

Growing Blessings 818.317.3264 growingblessings@aol.com

Lamaze Lamaze Weekend Course Baby Care Basics

TBA TBA TBA

Redondo Beach

Downey Regional Medical Center 562.904.5580

Lamaze

Cordelia Sattefield Hanna Cordelia Sattefield Hanna Cordelia Sattefield Hanna

Pasadena Public Health Dept. 626.744.6093 www.support4birth.com (free to Medi- Cal; $75 other)

Danielle Centeno

Downey

Lisa Spiegel Lisa Spiegel Lisa Spiegel

Susanna Lutton

Santa Clarita

Encino

A Mother’s Haven 818-380-3111 amothers-haven.com

Prepared Childbirth Prepared Childbirth Intensive Caring For Your Newborn Breastfeeding 101 CPR and First Aid Hypnobirthing

Belly Sprout 714.290.3174 dccenteno@msn.com

Danielle Centeno

Glendale Adventist Med Center 818.409.8325

Childbirth Preparation

Pump Station 310.374.4546 pumpstation.com Lamaze Ida Bird

Lamaze-Bradley®

Private Location 310.394.6711

Private Home 818.368.8428 klone@socal.rr.com

Christine Low Christine Low Christine Low

Private Homes 760.486.4298 wombtowalk.com

Rebecca Noel Rebecca Noel

Lakewood

in your home 562-272-4541 www.birthgoddess.com

Prepared Childbirth Homebirth Early Pregnancy Baby Care

Bradley®

Birthing, Midwifery Assistant Tonya Brooks

Silverlake

Silverlake Yoga 323-397-1274

Bradley®

Infant Massage

Jodi Leanse

Natural Birth & Woman’s Center 818.386.1082 www.gr8birth.com

ACHI Childbirth Class, VBAC (1 day crash course); Newborn Pediatrics; Breastfeeding; Sibling; Parenting; CPR; Postpartum Support; Midwifery Assistant and Doula Training: Tonya Brooks

The Sanctuary Birth & Family Wellness Center 310.566.7690 www.birthsanctuary.com

Childbirth, Parenting and Breastfeeding classes

Irvine

Hoag Hospital 949.764.2229 hoaghospital.org

Cesarean Class Baby Care Basics Baby Saver Breastfeeding

Gabriella Shaughnessy, RNC, IBCLC, LCCE

Birthing from Within Birthing Again Birth Story Workshop

Britta Bushnell Britta Bushnell Britta Bushnell

Va l e n c i a

Private Home 661.254.2069 yvonne@doulawithlove.com

Childbirth Prep

Yvonne Novak

Va n N u y s

The Childbirth Connection 818.734.0723

Breastfeeding Education Randi Levinson-Kuzmin Childbirth Educ for Women with Disabilities Parent Training

Ve n i c e

Head First Doula Services, Inc. 323.240.6002 www.headfirstdoulas.net

Birthing from Within Breastfeeding Cesarean Birth Preparation Happiest Baby on the Block Newborn Care

Yana Katzap-Nackman, CD Yana Katzap-Nackman, CD Yana Katzap-Nackman, CD Yana Katzap-Nackman, CD Yana Katzap-Nackman, CD

Wo o d l a n d H i l l s

South Coast Midwifery 949.235.9834 wwwblessedbabydoula.com

Gentle Birth Baby Care Basics Happiest Baby

Robin Gruver, AAHCC, ICEA Robin Gruver, AAHCC, ICEA

Private Home 310.455.2652 brittab@charter.net

Private Home 323-931-8521 jbleanse@sbcglobal.net

Bradley®

Octavia Lindlahr

To p a n g a

Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai 310-453-5144

Madalyn Morris, ICCE, CLEC

Leslie Sandoval CD (DONA)

Private Location 818.346.2467 lotusmoonbirth.com

Bradley®

Shelia C. Feldman

The Bradley® Method

Tonya Brooks-founded (Association for Childbirth at Home International) as an international research association; a licensed midwife and childbirth educator. She believes in empowering the mother with knowledge so she creates the birth she envisions and makes the best choices for her baby and her birth. Britta Bushnell-Certified Birthing From Within mentor; prenatal yoga instructor and mother. Britta’s classes help parents build a pain-coping mindset so they may fully participate in births rite of passage. Judy Chapman-RN, certified nurse-midwife and a certified Lamaze instructor trained through UCLA in 1972. Certified (DONA) doula and doula trainer and have birth and postpartum doula registries. Ron Coffman-I enjoy birth and starting new families off right like teaching the man’s point of view for helping his partner. Sue Coffman-Certified labor doula since 1998 through DONA: Wanted to reach more parents, like Bradley’s non-intervention point of view. Shelia Felman-AAHCC Certified Bradley® Method® Educator and Labor Support Doula. Shelia has a passion for helping couples prepare for birth with education, relaxation practice, and learning to release fear of birth. 87% of her students have had drug free natural births.

Melanie Gersten-Melanie teaches parents, babies, and Early Childhood Educators about the benefits of and steps for success to signing with babies and toddlers. (310) 529-7094 or (714) 816-0814 www.BabySignsWithMelanie.com Nancy Griffin-MA, 20 years affiliated Master Bradley® Instructor/ Lactation Consultant/ Child Development Expert/ Pregnancy-Recovery Exercise Specialist/ Professional Writer for Mothering Magazine/ Owner of Mommy Care Mothering Center Robin Gruver-AAHCC, ICEA I have been working with couples who would like to have an unmedicated birth for 30 years. I have been teaching Prenatal Yoga for 23 years. Alise Hatley -certified lactation educator,certified doula, Lamaze certified, in last year of nursing school. Amazing qualifications and very personable. Hoag Hospital-All of our instructors are registered nurses, certified in childbirth and IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultants). Yana Katzap-Nackman-CD(DONA), PCD(DONA), CLE. President, Head First Doula Services, Inc. Candace Leach-Licensed Midwife, Certified Doula, & Certified Childbirth Educator with over 11 years experience attending 400+births and teaching thousands of families.

O ra n g e / P l a c e n t i a

Private Home 714.337.4331

Ida Bird,-RN, MN,-Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, Assistant Clinical Professor UCLA School of Nursing, teaching evidence based content.

Terry Gass-RN,IBCLC, With more than 20 years in the field of maternal and child health, Terry is committed to offering nurturing and patient education and support to ensure successful breastfeeding.

Octavia Lindlahr

Mommy Zone 818.645.4692 Sacredmotherdoula.com

Couples Childbirth Class Prenatal Yoga

Judith Chapman

Kathryn Auger,-DONA, R.N., Believes childbirth should be a joyful experience. Preparation gives a woman confidence in the ability to give birth in a relaxed and peaceful state of mind and body.

Ta rz a n a

Los Robles Hospital 818-707-0894

Pump Station/Private Home 323-244-3912 www.OneWithChild.com

Heather Archer-CIMI, CMT - Certified Massage Therapist

Andrea Gamble-Bradley® Childbirth Instructor in Long Beach.

Infant Massage

Thousand Oaks

Andrea Gamble

Leslye Adelman-MA, IBCLC, LCCE, UCLA trained; Providing more than 20 years of individualized, nurturing education to promote students optimal preparation for childbirth, breastfeeding and newborn care.

Natural Birthing Center 818.645.4692 Sacredmotherdoula.com

Los Angeles

Lamaze- Bradley®

Liuba Randolph

S i m i Va l l e y

Candace Leach, LM, CPM, CCE

562-208-4383 www.BradleyBirth.com

Lamaze-Bradley®

Jodi Leanse

Natural Birth & Women’s Center 818.386.1082 Gr8birth.com

Long Beach

Bradley®

Nancy Griffin

Birth & Beyond 323-931-8521 jbleanse@sbcglobal.net

High Desert

Intro to Hypbirth Infant Massage

Judith Chapman

Sherman Oaks

G ra n a d a H i l l s

Bradley Breastfeeding Class Birthday/Follow-Up

Alise Hatley, CLE, CE Jan Sheridan Jill Spector, CLE Laurie Sutherland, RD Laurie Sutherland, RD

Santa Monica

Bradley® Childbirth

Glendale

Baby Care I.C.E.A. Breastfeeding C/S Delivery Lamaze

Leslie Adelman/Terry Gaff

Fullerton

Bradley® Natural Childbirth Classes

Babies & Beyond 661.259.1802 skraye@aol.com

Leslie Adelman

Richard Pass Alisha Tamburri

Instructors

Native Indian Birthing Grove 310.454.0920 leclairemethod.com

Sue Coffman

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Jodi Leanse-Instructor for 7 years; Have given birth 4 times; All natural, unmedicated; “Our bodies are strong are strong and we have to connect deep inside to feel the miracle of birth.” Randi Levinson-Kuzmin-Teaching since 1987 as LCCE. Received FACCE status from Lamaze International in 2001. CLE status; Giving families enough makes all the difference. Carol Levey-C.L.E. 10 years as a lactation professional; -The birth of a child is a miracle.We offer “ hands on “ lactation support so that both baby and mom thrive in their new roles. Octavia Lindlahr-Octavia Lindlahr is a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, trained through the International Association of Infant Massage. She is a certified labor doula and hypnotherapist working with pregnant women during labor and delivery. Christine Low-Labor doula for 12 years, Bradey instructor for 10 years; Each labor is unique and that is how I look upon each birthing couple. Katie Mc Call-AAHCC,ALACE, Certified by Bradley (AAHCC) and ALACE, Katie is a childbirth educator and birth doula. Katie is also in midwifery school and owner of The Sanctuary. Madalyn Morris-ICCE, CLEC, ICEA & UCSD Certified Instructor. Experienced, personable, and reliable. I believe the best way to birth is your way. Rebecca Noel-I am a CAPPA certified childbirth educator and a DONA trained birth doula. I offer private sessions so that my clients are being taught in a more relaxing atmosphere. Michelle Leclaire O’Neill- PhD,R.N Created the Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method. Doctor O’Neil has also trained physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals in mind/ body medicine. She is the author of Creative Childbirth, Meditations From Pregnancy and other works. Diane Peterson-ICEA certified childbirth educator; DONA certified doula ;lead Mommy and Me groups and couples relationship workshop; Breastfeeding educator philosophy -supporting informed choices for expectant and new mothers. Richard Pass-With decades of emergency room and health education experience, Richard is an expert in the knowledge and delivery of this life saving information. Laine Podell-MA, CLE, Laine’s 10+ years working in the fields of parent education and child development has made her passionate about providing quality and nurturing prenatal and parenting education. Linda Rose-is a certified DONA doula infant expert and a calming presence. Offering gracious assistance to parents, certified as a Kundalani yoga teacher at Golden Bridge Spiritual Village. Leslie Sandoval-CD (DONA) Providing caring, knowlegeable support and guidance to new mothers, their partners and families, throughout pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. Pauline Scharf, CBE-Teaching for 12 years. Bradley Method classes. Ellie Shea-I believe a well-prepared and supported woman will use her own power in birth to make decisions from an intuitive level instead of from fear. Jan Sheridan-ICEA, Focused on individual needs and concerns, very experienced Lisa Spiegel-ICEA, LCCE, Lisa is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator with 12 years experience supporting Informed Choices for the expectant family. Classes are nurturing and individualized to promote a positive birth experience for the couple. Laurie Sutherland-RN Lamaze certified, medical training, very caring, realistic approach to labor, meeting personal preferences. Alicia Tamburri-CCHT, 25 years experience. Alisha’s passion is helping pregnant couples have a fearless, often pain free birth using Hypnnobirthing Childbirth Education.

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Prenatal Yoga in Pasadena

Lettie Watkins, Gurmukh cert. Free parking 626-441-3572

Santa Monica Family YMCA

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A 60 minute workout. Available for every stage of pregnancy. Stacy Hinkel (562) 879-4214 or www.strollerstrides.com

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Stacy Hinkel 562-879-4214 or www.strollerstrides.com YMCA (in the pool) 818-790-0123

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Romy Rapoport, 310-483-3987, Malibu mothernaturebirth@yahoo.com

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with Merika. Hollywood Area 323-878-0431 Robin Gruver 818-707-0894 Yoga Works Westlake Village 805-3713030; The Pump Station, Westlake Village 805-777-7179 www.BirthingWithWisdom.com

Prenatal Yoga with Juanita

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Yoga Body

Prenatal Yoga. Pasadena. www.yogakingdom.com 626-792-7871 Prenatal yoga / mommy & me yoga 805-371-3030

YWCA of Santa Monica/Westside

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Karen Axelrod, BA, LMT

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Jill McArthur

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Mommy Care

Nutrition for pregnancy & breastfeeding, taking care of yourself after birth. Infant brain development. Nancy Griffin 310-394-6711

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Support for Postpartum depression. Jewish Family Service Hotline: 323-761-8800 ext. 1028

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Parents Must Be Ready For Water Emergencies!

by Richard Pass, R.N.

s the weather heats up in Southern California so does the risk of drowning. Drowning is the second leading cause of fatalities in the pediatric population and remains a major concern in warmer climates such as southern California. There are two essentials to keep in mind. The first is prevention. This, of course, is maintained by keeping a hawk-eye like focus on all water sources in or around your home. Practically speaking we are talking about bathtubs, hot tubs, pools and any other sources of water. Yes, it is also true that toddlers have been known to drown in toilets and in as little as 2-3 inches of standing water. Furthermore, the keys to lowering drowning risk include the following: •

Never leave a child unattended near water in a pool, hot tub, bucket or other water source

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Home pools require gates or fences at least 60 inches tall with a self-closing, self-latching mechanism

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Power operated pool covers are very efficient and safe and, in some instances, can be used instead of fences or gates

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Keep a phone at poolside in order to be able to call for help in a true emergency

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Instruct other family members, babysitters, nannies and others about the need for constant supervision

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Having had swimming lessons may be a good thing but they do not prevent drowning !

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Learn CPR and be prepared to initiate it if needed (see below for specific guidelines)

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When calling 9-1-1 it is best to use a land line rather than a cell phone. Cell phone calls are often delayed (being routed through the CHP) while land line calls are picked up quickly and response times are much shorter.

LActsravaganza ...continued from back page when I was ten and older, but, compared to my mom, they nursed for a short amount of time. One blames work, the other, baby teeth. That, coupled with modesty, kept them quite out of sight, and I have no memory of seeing my younger cousins being fed. So my first conscious memories of being around breastfeeding don’t begin until my twenties when I lived for a time with a nursing toddler who used to tear at his mother’s shirt when he wanted to nurse. A few years later, I witnessed my 2-year-old niece doing the same. These children seemed so tall and verbal to me, and not at all what I associated with breastfeeding. Before I had children I was confident that I was not going to breastfeed a demanding toddler, but it’s funny how many things we are sure we will or won’t do before that first baby comes. My first son, Victor, is almost three and I breastfed him until he was tall and verbal and demanding. It was heartbreaking, but I decided to wean him when I was very pregnant with Nico, my date to LActravaganza. Victor taught me how to breastfeed in public. And by public, I mean anywhere from the museum to our dinner table. I decided at some point that his comfort was more important than anyone else’s, even my own. Like Katie Hamilton, I will sit down to nurse where and when I need to. But that doesn’t mean I’m not susceptible to the negativity of people that should simply look the other way. It also doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t appreciate a kind word of encouragement, a soft look, or a small smile from anyone that supports what I’m doing. I am not trying to shock or disrespect anyone when I breastfeed in public. If I can cover up, I do, but sometimes I literally feel tied up in receiving blankets and “hooter hiders” and can do a much better job, at being discreet and being a mom, with a nursing tank and a baggy T-shirt. But that’s me.

The second essential is preparation for a real drowning event by taking a CPR course. Drowning is a quick and often unnoticed event. Roughly 20% of pediatric drownings occur in the presence of an adult or care provider. If an actual drowning is underway, the adult must begin CPR immediately! Keys to a successful resuscitation include: •

Begin CPR immediately. If alone with victim begin CPR and continue for up to two minutes BEFORE CALLING 9-1-1.

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If a second rescuer is present then CPR AND the 9-1-1 call should happen at the same time The newest CPR guidelines recommend chest compressions first (before mouth-to-mouth breathing)

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The ratio of chest compressions to breaths is 30: 2 and the pumping speed is about 100 pushes per minute (about the same speed at the rhythm of the song “Staying Alive.”

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If there is a return of spontaneous breathing but the victim is not conscious, turn them on their side and wait for the paramedics.

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About 80% of drowning victims vomit water during CPR. If this occurs, stop and turn the victim onto their side and carefully scoop water or other material from their mouth.

It should be understood that CPR for the drowning victim is not about water extraction from the body. Rather, it is about providing oxygen via the blood we pump into their brain. Most drowning victims who survive will not only breath on their own but regain consciousness—often before the arrival of the paramedics. Remember, we are the 1st responders in these situations so we must be ready !! With all of this in mind, have a wonderful, safe, enjoyable summer season ! And I don’t care if a woman pulls her shirt up or down, if she shows her stomach or her breasts; if she is a nursing mother, people need to deal with it. I went to LActravaganza because I wish I had seen more breastfeeding between the time I breastfed my dolls to the time I had Victor. I went because I want to help spread the idea that breastfeeding is normal. It’s at least as normal as having a baby (Why else would my breasts have filled with milk?) and most people seem to be supportive of that. The idea of normalizing breastfeeding is what fueled Ms. Hamilton’s event, and she continues to foster a positive community on Facebook through her page “HEY L.A! BREASTFEEDING ISN’T SHAMEFUL”. The posts are sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always supportive. If there’s a LActravaganza 2013, Nico and I will be there.

Richard Pass, RN, BS Save a Little Life, inc. 818.344.1442 Savealittlelife.com Richard Pass, RN,BS is the founder of “Save A Little Life” inc., a local provider of both CPR and First-aid for infants & children. He has been a Registered Nurse & Health Educator for over 30 years. He is on staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and is currently a parttime clinical instructor of nursing at California State University, Northridge. The goal for Save a Little Life is to provide a simpler, more “user friendly” CPR course.

Rebecca Roe Rebecca lives in Long Beach with her partner and two sons. She has worked in public schools as an English teacher and support provider for the last 12 years. When she is not breastfeeding, she is continuing her studies at UC Irvine.

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BEVERLY HILLS/WEST LOS ANGELES/SANTA MONICA

Aronson, Debbie, RN, BSN, IBCLC 310-600-9194 310-829-6330 928 Stanford Street, Santa Monica, CA 90403-2224 Serves LA County Classes prenatal, private instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home, office; pump rentals, sales, related sales; pump delivery; available weekends & evenings. Specializes in transitioning premature babies to breast, latch / suck and milk supply problems. Breastfeeding Culture Enterprises, 310–819-0408 Yocheved “Hedi” Schoenes, IBCLC 1119 Broadway #D, Santa Monica, CA 90405-3030 Classes prenatal, post partum; consults in office, client’s home, free weekly support group; sale of breast pumps & supplies; very low cost services available; credit cards accepted; available evenings and Sunday. Cedars-Sinai Lactation Education Center 310-423-5312, ❋ ■ ❒ 8700 Beverly Blvd., Suite 3202, Los Angeles, CA 90048 Linda Kingsley, IBCLC Prenatal classes; consults in hospital; breast pump rentals & related sales; credit cards accepted; medical translators for most languages; information line 800-972-6003. Mon-Fri 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, Sat 9 AM-2:30 PM Epps, Cynthia, MS, IBCLC 310-458-6430 www.Motherwork.com 457 25th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90402-3033 Also serves Hollywood, Silverlake, Glendale, Culver City

Breastfeeding classes, prenatal, post partum, private instruction; post natal nutrition, transition to solids & gentle weaning; consults in hospital, client’s home; available weekends. Kramer, Rachel, MD, CLE, Melissa Tatum, MA, CLE 310-273-9533, ♣ ■ 250 North Robertson Blvd., Suite 404, Beverly Hills, CA 90211-1788 Also serves West Hollywood, Miracle Mile, Hollywood

Consultations in hospital and Pediatric office; physical assessment of infant and well child follow-up. Credit cards accepted. MCH Services Inc 800-822-6688 Rona Cohen, RN, BS, MN, IBCLCwww.mchservicesinc.com P.O. Box 6241 Beverly Hills, CA 90212-1241 Multi Site Turnkey National Corporate Lactation Programs Prenatal education through corporate lactation programs only. Breast pump sales. Credit cards accepted. Saint John’s Health Center/Lactation Station 310-829-8944 1328 22nd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404-2091 Elaine Robertson, IBCLC, Teresa Sakamoto, BA, IBCLC, available daily 9AM - 5PM. Consults in hospital & by appointment; breast pump rentals & sales; credit cards accepted; support groups Wed. & Fri. at noon; weekend phone consults. Slavick, Suzy, RN, CLE 310-871-3554, ■ www.bhlactationcenter.com 145 S. La Peer Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90211-2601 Also serves San Fernando Valley, Culver City, Mid-Wilshire

Consults in hospital, office, client’s home; credit cards accepted; available weekends & evenings. Experienced in hospital setting. Warm and supportive approach. Tellalian, Louise Arce, RN, LCCE, CLC 310-274-2272, ■ 1911 San Ysidro Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210-1520 Serves Greater Los Angeles

Prenatal breastfeeding classes; small group in home setting on Saturday AM with phone follow-up, private instruction available; phone counseling. The Pump Station 310-998 1981 W. Haldeman, RN, MN, CLC, C. Harvey, RN, MS, CLC, J Sacher, RN, MN, CLC www.Pumpstation.com 2415 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90403 Breastfeeding classes; consults in office & home visits; breast pump rentals & related sales; credit cards accepted; support groups; bras & nursing wear, baby care products, baby & preemie clothes. MIRACLE MILE/HOLLYWOOD/SILVERLAKE/DOWNTOWN

Hamilton, Maureen 323-228-4855, ■ 2963 4th Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90018-2933 Also serves Beverly Hills, West LA

Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, clinic. Provides post partum care for mother and newborn up to one year; available weekends and evenings. Lee, Carole F. , OTR/L, MA, MS, CLE 323-528-1406 Also serves Los Feliz, Echo Park. Mt. Washington

Private instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home; experienced in medically fragile, high risk infants with special needs; available weekends & evenings. McClain, Dionne, DC, CLE 323-653-1014 McClain Sports and Wellness 6360 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 410, Los Angeles, CA 90048-5601 Also serves, Beverly Hills, Ladera Heights, View Park, Culver City

Private instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home; credit cards accepted; low or no cost consults for teens; available Saturdays, evenings. The Pump Station 323-469-5300 W. Haldeman, RN, MN, CLC, C. Harvey, RN, MS, CLC, J Sacher, RN, MN, CLC www.Pumpstation.com 1248 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90038 Breastfeeding classes; consults in office & home visits; breast pump rentals & related sales; credit cards accepted; support groups; bras & nursing wear, baby care products, baby & preemie clothes. CULVER CITY/SOUTH LOS ANGELES

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6041 Cadillac Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034-1702 Gwen Brown, RN, BSN, CLC, Alexanne Soltwedel, RN, BSN, CLE Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum; consults in hospital, clinic; breast pump sales & related sales; credit cards accepted; support group, teen services. Lactation Education Center Mon.-Fri. 9 AM-5 PM

BURBANK/PASADENA/GLENDALE

Baghdassarian, Roza, BA, CLE 818-353-7446, ❋ www.moreser.com Also serves San Fernando Valley and Greater LA Breastfeeding classes prenatal, private instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home, at Glendale Memorial Hospital; breast pump rentals, sales; BabyWeigh scales, nursing wear; available Saturday & evenings; credit cards accepted. Bell, Cynthia, RNC, BSN 213-703-6400 2324 Janet Lee Drive, La Crescenta, CA 91214-2208 Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home, pediatric office, hospital clinic; available weekends and evenings. Bellies, Babies and Bosoms 818-541-1200; 818-541-1214, ❋ ▲ ◆ ■ H. Schroeder MPH, RD, IBCLC, MJ Haddad, IBCLC, M. Limbach, CLE www.bellies.biz 2430 Honolulu Ave Montrose, CA 91020 Also serves San Gabriel Valley, Eagle Rock / Los Angeles

Prenatal & post partum classes, private instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home; breast pump rentals & sales, nursing wear; baby scales;available weekends & eves. Bridwell, Margaret, OTR/L, CLE 626-372-0929 Also serves San Gabriel Valley Altadena, CA 91001-3746 Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home; pediatric office; hospital clinic; also available weekends and evenings. Dawson, Diane LM, CPM 818-913-0448 West Home Birth www.westhomebirth.com 380 S. Euclid Avenue, #301, Pasadena, CA 91101-3104 Also serves Studio City, Silverlake

Breastfeeding classes, prenatal, post partum, private instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home; credit cards accepted; available weekends & evenings. Glendale Memorial Hospital & Health Center 818-507-4191, ❋ ■ 1420 S. Central Ave., Breastfeeding Resource Center 5th Fl., Glendale, CA 91204 Serves San Gabriel/San Fernando Valleys and Greater Los Angeles area

Breastfeeding classes prenatal; consults in hospital, clinic; support groups; phone consultations and referrals to community resources; childbirth class series; MediCal reimbursable. M - F 9 AM - 5 PM Glendale Pediatrics 818-246-7260 ❋ ■ 1530 E. Chevy Chase Drive, Suite #101, Glendale, CA 91206 Cindy Ames, LVN, **CLC Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum, private instruction; consults in pediatric office; pump rentals & related sales, Baby Weigh Scales rented, credit cards accepted. Mon-Fri. 9 AM-5:30 PM Huntington Hospital 626-397-3172, ■ Outpatient Center - 100 W. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105-7103 Also serves Greater San Gabriel Valley

Ann Meier RN, BSN, CLC; Maggie Byrne BA, CLC Five Certified Lactation Consultants are available. Breastfeeding classes, prenatal; consults in hospital, clinic; breast pump rentals & sales, bra fittings and sales, scale rentals; nursing wear and pillows; credit cards accepted; free support group. Mon-Fri 9 AM-4 PM Johnson-Haddad, Miranda, CLE, IBCLC 818-621-5477 4735 Alta Canyada Road, La Cañada, CA 91011- 2035 Also serves Burbank, N. Hollywood

Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum, private instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home, also at Bellies, Babies & Bosoms; support groups; available weekends and evenings. Pasadena Rosey Babys 626-432-6730 Chetti, Carolyn, RN, CLC Serves Greater San Gabriel Valley Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home; available Saturday and evenings. San Marino B.A.B.I.E.S. 626-285-1473 Gail Katz, RN, MSN, CNS, IBCLC, FACCE PMB 430, 2275 Huntington Drive, San Marino, CA 91108 Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home; breast pump rentals & related sales; specializes in NICU babies; available evenings & weekends. Certified Lamaze Breastfeeding Support Specialist Course Instructor. The Pump Station 323-469-5300 W. Haldeman, RN, MN, IBCLC, C. Harvey, RN, MS, IBCLC, J. Sacher, RN, MN, IBCLC www.Pumpstation.com 1248 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90038 Breastfeeding classes; consults in office & home visits; breast pump rentals & related sales; credit cards accepted; support groups; bras & nursing wear, baby care products, baby & preemie clothes. SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

A Bundle of Joy 818-345-4439; 818-929-7584, ■ 4431 Callada Place, Tarzana, CA 91356 Serving San Fernando Valley and surrounding areas

Breastfeeding consultations in hospital, Tarzana office, or client’s home; breast pump deliveries - rentals and sales; baby scales, nursing bras. Phone support and mail order service. Adelman, Leslye, MS, IBCLC, LCCE; Jaffe, Fran, MPH, RD, IBCLC “Gentle Nurturing” 818-789-6718; 818-929-7481 www.gentlenurturing.com Also serve West Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica

Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum, private instruction at “A Mother’s Haven” & “CosmiKids”; consults in hospital, pediatric office, client’s home; breast pump rentals & sales, pump delivery; credit cards accepted; available weekends & evenings. “A Mother’s Haven” 818-380-3111, ✖, ■ L. Podell-Camino, MA, CLE, Leslye Adelman, MS, IBCLC, Terry Gass, RN, IBCLC www.amothers-haven.com 15928 Ventura Blvd. Suite #116, Encino, CA 91436 Classes prenatal & post partum; consults in location of your preference; breast pump rentals & related sales; New Mother & other classes and support; SFV largest selection of nursing bras & clothing, slings, baby care & clothing; available weekends & evenings. Breceda, Gina, LVN, CCE, IBCLC, 818-702-8803, ■ Also serves Malibu, Calabasas, Moorpark, Westlake, Agoura, West LA, Santa Monica

Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home; available weekends and evenings.

Symbols indicate services in languages other than English: ✖ American Sign Language, ❋ Armenian, ● Chinese, ✯ Farsi, ♣ French, ▲ Hebrew, ❧ Italian, ❍ Korean, ◆ Japanese, ❒ Russian, ■ Spanish Providence Holy Cross Medical Center 818-847-4142, ■ 15031 Rinaldi St., Misson Hills, CA 91345-1207 Also serving Burbank, Santa Clarita Valley

Terry Gass, RN, IBCLC, RLC, Carol Chacón, CCCE, IBCLC, RLC A Baby Friendly Hospital; Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum, support group; consults in hospital, client’s home; support group; breast pump rentals & sales, credit cards accepted. 8 AM-5 PM Rivas, Margie, RN, CPNP, CLEC 818-831-8982, ■ 11001 Nestle Avenue, Northridge, CA 91326-2850 Prenatal classes; consults in hospital, clients home; breast pump rentals, sales, and related sales; available weekends & evenings. Steinberg, Ellen, RN, LCCE, IBCLC 818-345-4439, ■ Serving San Fernando Valley & surrounding areas

Consults in hospital, Tarzana office, client’s home; breast pump rentals & sales, baby scale rentals; specializes in milk supply concerns, sucking difficulties, sore nipples; craniosacral therapy for mother and baby. 9 AM - 9 PM seven days a week, by appointment only. The Pump Connection 818-225-8822, ✖ ■ www.thepumpconnection.com "Binky" Petok, BS, IBCLC, L. O’Neil, BS, IBCLC, R. Ross, BS, IBCLC 22554 Ventura Blvd. Suite 112, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Also serves Simi Valley and Santa Clarita

Breastfeeding consults in office, client’s home; support groups & classes; breast pump rentals/sales, professionally fitted nursing bras; credit cards & web orders accepted. M-F 10-5 & Sat. 11-4 The Pump Station 323-469-5300 W. Haldeman, RN, MN, IBCLC, C. Harvey, RN, MS, IBCLC, J. Sacher, RN, MN, IBCLC www.Pumpstation.com 1248 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90038 Breastfeeding classes; consults in office & home visits; breast pump rentals & related sales; credit cards accepted; support groups; bras & nursing wear, baby care products, baby & preemie clothes. SANTA CLARITA VALLEY

Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital 661-253-8238, ■ www.HenryMayo.com 23845 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355-2083 Mary Beth Sweet, IBCLC; Jolli Bernier IBCLC, Lisa Araki, CLE Breastfeeding classes prenatal; consults in hospital, clinic; breast pump rentals & sales; support group Thurs. 9:30 - 11:00 AM; available weekends. Takeda, Cindee Robinson, MS, CLE, IBCLC 661-298-1774 28468 Alder Peak, Santa Clarita, CA 91387-3109 Also serves San Fernando Valley

Private instruction; consults in client’s home, pediatric office; experienced with preterm, multiples & special needs infants; available weekends & evenings. Will, Emily, RN 661-296-1280 www.yourlactationstation.com Also serves San Fernando Valley Private instruction; consults in client’s home; breast pump sales and rental, free delivery within Santa Clarita Valley, breastfeeding supplies; available evenings and weekends. SIMI VALLEY/CONEJO VALLEY/VENTURA COUNTY

Collett, Vivienne, RN, CLC 818-879-2005; 818-807-9545 Serves Oak Park, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Camarillo

Consults in client’s home; breast pump rentals & related sales; available Saturdays & evenings. Holistic Lactation 805-582-2058 Dianne E. Oliver, IBCLC www.holisticlactation.com Serves Ventura County and Greater Los Angeles

Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum, private instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home; available weekends and evenings. Rahmat, Mindith, MA, CLEC 805-501-1782 www.breastfeedingguru.com

Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum, private instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home; breastfeeding & yoga classes, special interest in teens, maternity homes. MONTEBELLO/WHITTIER/DOWNEY/LYNWOOD

Kennedy, Diane R., MS, IBCLC, CLE, LCCE 562-652-0408 11328 E. Clare Street, Whittier, CA 90601-2574 Also serves Pasadena, San Gabriel Valley, Long Beach, Orange County

Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in client’s home; breast pump rentals and related sales; available weekends and evenings. Anastasia Pappas, MD, AAFM, CLE, ABM; Andrea Mason, MD, AAFM, ABM 562-698-0811 Ext. 8516, ■ 9251 Pioneer Blvd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 12291 Washington Blvd.. Suite 500, Whittier, CA 90606-2551 Prenatal & post partum care; consults in hospital,office, client’s home; credit cards accepted; address medical problems associated with breastfeeding; available weekends & evenings; MediCal provider. Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital 562-698-0811 Ext.7652 12401 Washington Blvd., Whittier, CA 90602-1099 Serves Whittier, San Gabriel Valley & North Orange County

Dominica Castro, RN, CLE, IBCLC Prenatal breastfeeding classes, private instruction; consults in hospital, clinic; support group. Mon. - Fri. 9 AM - 4 PM WESTCHESTER/SOUTH BAY/SAN PEDRO

Breastfeeding Support Center 310-374-3426, Ext 183, ♣ ■ www.bchd.org Beach Cities Health District, 514 N. Prospect Ave., 1st. Fl., Redondo Beach, CA 90277 Sharon Watkins, IBCLC; Barbara Zimmerman RN, IBCLC; Miriam Nash, IBCLC Prenatal, post partum classes; consults in hospital, clinic, client’s home; breast pump rentals & sales; low cost drop-in clinic, free weight checks & phone counseling. Mon. - Thur., 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM, Sat. 10 AM - noon Berger, Dymphna, MA, IBCLC 310-251-7350 ● ✦ 1120-A Vincent Street, Redondo Beach, CA 90277 Prenatal and post partum classes, private instruction; consults in client’s home, WIC center; telephone counseling; available Fri., Sat., Sun. and evenings.

Bright Beginnings & Beyond Lynette Miya, MN, RNP 310-316-1528, ■ www.brightbeginningsbeyond.com 229 Ave. I, Suite 101, Redondo Beach, CA 90277-5600 Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum; consults in office, client’s home; breast pump rentals & sales, nursing wear; credit cards accepted , some reduced rates; support group; available weekends. Education and Consulting Associates 310-541-6580 Linda M. Smith, RNC, MS, NP, CLE www.lactationedu.com P.O. Box 905, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 Serves Beach Cities and Palos Verdes Peninsula, Long Beach

Prenatal & post partum breastfeeding classes, private instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home; sale of breastfeeding supplies available weekends. Goldbach, Victoria, RN, BSN, CLE 310-540-2790; 310-874-2438 Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home, phone consults; baby-care instruction and in-home help; available evenings & weekends. Lipsey, Gwendolyn, CLE, PCD 310-663-6235 www.family-doula.com Also serves West LA, Santa Monica, Culver City Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home; available. Saturdays and evenings. The Breastpump Connection 310-212-6461; 310-779-7943 Luanne Rosevear, RN, BS, CLE, LCCE Breastfeeding classes, prenatal, post partum; consults in hospital, office, client’s home, pediatric office; breast pump rental & sales, pump delivery; available evenings & weekends. Torrance Memorial Medical Center 310-517-4711 3330 Lomita Blvd., Health Links, West Tower, Torrance, CA 90505-5073 Susan Orr, PT, LCCE, CLC, IBCLC; Nancy Kraus, BA, LCCE, CLE Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum; $25 consults in clinic Mon. & Sat. 310-517-4743, weekends by appt.; breast pump rentals & sales, nursing wear, books, baby items; credit cards accepted. LONG BEACH/ORANGE COUNTY

Baylis, Cynthia, MPH, RD, IBCLC “Heart & Soul” 562-596-9598 2561 Gondar Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90815-2217 Also serves Bellflower, Downey, N. Orange County

Breastfeeding classes, prenatal, post partum; consults in office, client’s home; breast pump rentals & sales, pump delivery; credit cards accepted; available weekends & evenings. Gibson, Christine RN, PHN, CLE 949-697-6670 www.Learn2breastfeed.com Learn2Breastfeed near Bellflower and Wardlow Also serves Whittier Classes prenatal, private instruction; consults in client’s home; back to work consulting; available evenings and weekends. Long Beach Memorial Medical Ctr./ Miller Children’s Hosp. 562-933-2779, ■ Memorial Care Center for Women - Lactation Support Services 2801 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90801-1701 www.memorialcare.org/miller/services/center-for-women/breastfeeding_store.cfm Prenatal & post partum breastfeeding classes, private instruction; consults in hospital & clinic; breast pump rental & sales. Mon. -Sat. 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Orr, Susan, PT, CLC, IBCLC 562-427-3782 3757 Falcon Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90807 Also serves Torrance, South Bay Breastfeeding classes, prenatal, post partum; consults in office, client’s home, pediatric office; breast pump rentals & related sales; Pediatric Physical Therapy; available some weekends & evenings; $20 consults at Columbia Pediatric Clinic, Long Beach. SAN GABRIEL VALLEY/INLAND EMPIRE

“Best Fed Breastfeeding Center” 626-919-6455 Harding, Cindy, LVN, **CLC www.breastfeedingcenter.com Also serves Whittier 1300 E. Maplegrove St., W. Covina, CA 91792-1210 Private breastfeeding classes; consults in office, client’s home; breast pump rentals, sales, specialty feeding devices; credit cards accepted; available evenings & weekends. Citrus Valley Medical Center, Queen of the Valley Campus 626-851-2753, ■ Gail Katz, RN, MSN, CNS, IBCLC, Lactation Services Program Coordinator 1115 S. Sunset Avenue, West Covina, CA 91790-3940 Post partum breastfeeding classes daily; consults in hospital; support group Tuesday 10:00 - 11:30 AM Citrus Valley Medical Center, Queen of the Valley Campus 626-814-2446, ■ Mother-Baby Specialty Shoppe Dawn Cooper, RN, BSN, Director Program Development 1115 S. Sunset Ave., West Covina, CA 91790 Prenatal breastfeeding classes for $5.00; breast pump rentals, sales & related sales. Miles, Lorraine, RN, BA, CLC, IBCLC (RLC) cell: 909-595-9620 Baby Beginnings Also serves Montebello, Whittier, Downey, Lynwood Private breastfeeding instruction; consults in hospital, client’s home; breast pump rentals, pump delivery; free teen program, NICU & pre-term babies follow-up; available weekends & evenings. Orellana, Josie, IBCLC 626-484-0964, ✖ ■ 28 Mountain Laurel Way, Azusa, CA 91702-6264 Also serves Montebello, Whittier, Downey, Lynwood, Glendale, Pasadena

Breastfeeding classes prenatal, post partum; consults in office, client’s home; nursing wear; credit cards accepted; available weekends, evenings. Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center 909-623-6455, ■ 1798 N. Garey Ave., Pomona, CA 91767 Terry Bretscher, RN, CLC, IBCLC Prenatal classes; consults in hospital, outpatient appointments available; breast pump rentals & sales; Mommy ‘N’ Me Wednesday 10 AM; medical translators available for other languages. Teachout, Stella, RN, BSN, IBCLC 626-966-2277, ❃ 18853 E. Nearfield Street, Azusa, CA 91702 Also serves Burbank, Pasadena, Glendale

Private instruction; consults in hospital, office, client’s home, pediatric office, WIC Center; experienced in hospital setting, NICU / Preterm babies, multiples; available weekends, evenings.

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Baby Behavior 101: Teaching Parents to Understand Infant Cues, Crying & Sleep with Jane Heinig PhD, IBCLC Embassy Suites Anaheim South 11767 Harbor Boulevard Garden Grove, CA 92840 www.ceaorangecounty.com Email: ceaorangecounty@yahoo.com Conference Registration fees: CEAOC/ICEAMembers Fee: $115.00; Members after Friday August 11, 2012: $145; Non-Members Fee: $145.00; Non-members after Friday August 11, 2012 $175.00; Walk-in if space is available $200.00 after September 22, 2012. Includes contact hours, handouts, continental breakfast, buffet luncheon, and free parking. Everyone is entered in the door prize drawing. Here is an excerpt from Dr Heinig’s blog for health professionals: “Those of us who work with babies and their families can learn from the ever growing body of literature related to infant growth and development...we’ll share classic and recent research in the areas of infant feeding and behavior. Together, we can help families have more realistic expectations for their infants’ behavior and support informed infant feeding decisions” http://www.babybehaviorist.com/ SESSIONS Session I: Six States of Infant Arousal & Awareness Session II: Cues & Crying Session III: Sleep Patterns Session IV: Tools for Teaching Infant Cues In the Group Setting Application submitted for 6.0 ICEA, 7.0 CA BRN and CERPS continuing education hours. Full day attendance and completion of evaluation required. Current ICEA Certified Childbirth Educators or Doulas attending this conference for recertification purposes, will fulfill the ENTIRE recertification requirement of 24 ICEA contact hours, even if fewer hours are given. For example, if the conference is approved for 7.0 contact hours, an ICEA Certified participant will receive 24.0 contact hours by attending. EAOC will offer the same recertification bonus to CEAOC Childbirth Educators who need to recertify in 2012. For bonus contact hour information, contact beckywmemories@cox.net

Loving the Mother and Celebrating Womanhood Save the Date & Be Amazed in Bali, Indonesia October 12th – 22nd, 2012 Imagine an extraordinary gathering of women awakening to their full potential and acting as powerful and co-creative agents for change. Explore womanhood, sexuality, and your life purpose. A 10 day total immersion workshop with Midwife and CNN Hero Robin Lim, Esalen Massage guru Ellen Watson, Bestselling author and doula Guiditta Tornetta and permaculture goddess Rachel Love. Also you will be able to obtain 10 CEUs valid for re-certification through DONA international.

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LAcstravaganza: A Celebration of Mothers and Babies

by Rebecca Roe

n the afternoon of June 10th, 2012, the Grand Entrance at the LA County Museum of Modern Art was a sea of yellow and gold due to the efforts of LA resident and breastfeeding mother, Katie Hamilton. Some weeks prior to June 10th, Ms. Hamilton was hurt and outraged when a security guard at LACMA asked her to “cover up” while she breastfed her 21-month-old daughter. The guard was reacting to a complaint made by another patron and was apparently unaware that asking Ms. Hamilton to cover up went against LACMA’s supportive policies regarding mothers’ protected rights to breastfeed in public. I wish I could thank the patron that complained that day as it prompted Ms. Hamilton to organize, with LACMA’s full support, the June 10th event entitled, LActravaganza 2012: A Celebration of Mothers and Babies. Participants wore yellow and gold to symbolize “liquid gold” breast milk, and the effect made for a bright, happy breastfeeding party that I was excited to attend. I was invited to the event through Facebook and in the weeks prior to June 10th participants-to-be warmly reached out to one another and quickly became allies. Over 100 hundred people committed to attending and at least that many showed up. Mothers and children were radiant in their yellow and gold. Many people sported customized clothing that they made themselves. The international breastfeeding symbol was silkscreened on T-shirts and tiny onesies. One

little guy had a shirt that said, “Boob Man,” and two friends painted “Supply” on their shirts and “Demand” on their children’s. Being there was easy, fun, validating (not words I would usually use to describe breastfeeding at a museum). If you could find someone to watch your kids and had a few dollars for a tip, you could get a free massage. There was face painting and bubbles for the toddlers. The first 50 participants received tote bags filled with goodies like cookies that bolster your milk supply and gift certificates for a free Pilates class! The blankets on the grass, the children running and playing, the open and comfortable breastfeeding- it all made me feel like I was at some mega-playdate that was designed to make me feel like meeting my baby’s most basic need is something quite beautiful and important. Though I have always supported it and even knew in the back of my mind that I would want to do it, I have to admit that I wasn’t always comfortable around nursing mothers. My mom loves to tell me about how I used to lift up my shirt to feed my dolls; a behavior that worried my preschool teacher, but that my mom thought was perfectly natural since she nursed my younger sister until she was two. Apart from my sister, I have no memories of being around nursing babies. I have two aunts that had babies continued on page 13...

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