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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Melamine in US formulas

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photo by Jessie McClain Melamine has been found in US formulas. http://tinyurl.com/5vo9rr Not too surprising. US infant formula contains Mil...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

ownership of human milk stem cells

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photo by Jessie McClain While the breastfeeding community mulls over the patent application of a human milk fortifier by Medela, they might...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Human milk fortifiers: confusion is the game

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photo by Jessie McClain Human milk fortifiers are used in NICUs to "fortify" human milk given to premature infants. There is a bel...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Human milk in a bottle

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photo by Jessie McClain What was the intent of the WHO Code? Protection of breastfeeding. Is breastfeeding equivalent to humanmilk feeding? ...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Breastpumps, a risk factor for breastfeeding failure

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photo by Jessie McClain Are breastpumps a risk factor for breastfeeding failure? What is the cause of so many women initiating breastfeeding...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Breast pump companies and the WHO Code

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photo by Jesse McClain There is a belief in breastfeeding organizations that the WHO/UNICEF Code (International Code of Marketing of Breas...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

of truth, silence, slander, and propaganda

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photo by Jesse McClain I received another email from the anonymous commentator who called me a lunatic, a crazy, an uneducated bigot. This p...
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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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