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Friday, August 29, 2008

Truth or Dare: Vitamin D and breastfeeding

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The current recommendation from the AAP on breastfeeding and vitamin D is that "all infants, including those who are exclusively breast...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Copyright, plagarism, IPRs

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According to the IBLCE(International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners), the purpose of IBCLCs tenet #25 on intellectual property rig...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Monopolies on human milk and its components

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The ultimate result of our ethics code (tenet #25), is that IBCLCs must respect, understand, recognize, and acknowledge the monopolization o...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Patents and Breastfeeding

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There was a comment/questions to my last blog entry that I felt needed to be addressed. "Laws here in Europe would not prevent a ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

IBCLCs & intellectual property rights

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photo by Jessie McClain Like all professions, international board certified lactation consultants (IBCLCs) have a code of ethics. The 25th a...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

HIV & Breastfeeding--part 8

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photo by Jessie McClain " Although humans are at continuous risk of infection by microbial pathogens, most survive these repeated onsla...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

HIV & Breastfeeding--Part 7

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I thought I'd dedicate this post to a couple of websites that give alternative views on hiv/aids. These websites have a wealth of info...
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Valerie W. McClain
How does one describe oneself to those who landed on this page in this virtual library called the internet? I was born in Canada and moved to the USA when I was six years old. I graduated from the State University College of New York at Potsdam with a BA, majoring in political science. Got married, got divorced. Got married again, had children, got divorced. I birthed all my babies at home, breastfed them, and became a La Leche League leader for 10 years. I became an a IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) in 1991 and retired that credential in the fall of 2011. I was employed by the WIC Program for 4 years in Volusia County, Florida. In 1998 I began to question the reasoning behind denying hiv positive women the right to breastfeed. In my research for answers I stumbled upon a human milk component patent to be used to treat hiv/aids patients. Thus began my quest to understand why so much of the real knowledge of human milk is buried.
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