Lisa Amir

Becoming Baby-friendly: What works?

Celebrating 2025 World Breastfeeding Week!

#IntBreastfeedJ has new collection to attract studies advancing our understanding of successful strategies/processes underpining organisations' decision to implement BFHI
www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

#IntBreastfeedJ is celebrating World Breastfeeding Week!
Read about recent articles in my blog (link below)
🤱🤱🏿🤱🏼🤱🏾
#WBW2025

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

"Why are you guys necessary and why does breastfeeding need support?"

- one of many Q's from our Reddit AMA.

Others:
❓ Can grandmothers relactate?
❓ How does the breast know to customize the milk?
❓ How important is the "breast crawl"?

Our A's to these & many more: www.reddit.com/r/askscience...

July 2025 update for #IntBreastfeedJ

We published 8 articles w authors from 13 countries: Australia, Afghanistan, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Germany, Iran, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA, & Vietnam

Most recent: QI project improved bf at 4 m for mod-late preterm infants tinyurl.com/36xaxef9

🌍 Breastfeeding is a climate solution.
Midwives are key to making it possible.
This #WBW2025, let’s support the warm chain of care and create a breastfeeding-friendly world — for women & planet.

Learn more: zurl.co/QNs87

Illustration of a child being breastfed. Text reads: Breastfeeding contributes to: - Improved survival - Protection from infectious diseases - Reduced lifetime risk of obesity, asthma and heart disease - Optimal nutrition - Lower rates of breast and ovarian cancers, diabetes and heart disease for mum - Healthy brain development - Strong microbiomes Investing in breastfeeding means investing in the future. It supports healthier populations, reduced healthcare costs and stronger economies.

It’s World Breastfeeding Week!

Breastfeeding provides the perfect nutrition for babies and a healthy beginning - with benefits that last for life.

From maternity leave to trained counsellors, let’s ensure every mum gets the breastfeeding support she needs!

#HopefulFutures

🔗 bit.ly/40HTe7s

Woman standing in front of a conference poster

Bianca Blanch representing Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University at the INNATE conference, UWS, in Sydney today
"Birth trauma and breastfeeding: A scoping review"
#WBW2025

#IntBreastfeedJ is celebrating World Breastfeeding Week!
Read about recent articles in my blog (link below)
🤱🤱🏿🤱🏼🤱🏾
#WBW2025

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

the senju kannon-like women of wartime Japan, expected to simultaneously (from bottom left) support soldiers on the front, bear/nurture children, volunteer their labor, save funds, take up arms, console the bereaved, and fight fires

Drawn by the Ono Saseo, still trying to figure out the date!

I'd say she's feeding the baby - not simply "holding ... a baby".
Look at that little hand on the woman's breast! 👶
#breastfeeding 🤱

An event flyer with featuring a mashup of the Reddit alien logo and the universal breast-feeding sign. The alien has a little leaf on their antenna. The color scheme is retro, with teal and yellow and navy. There is a speech bubble that says “Boobs?” with a question mark. And the other bubble answers, “Boobs” with a period. Text: LACTATION SCIENCE AMA FRI AUG 1st 12-5 PM EST r/AskScience

Second page of the scrolling flyer. The breastfeeding alien floats in the background. The color scheme is retro, with teal, butter yellow, navy, Air Force blue, and orange/peach tones. In the middle there is a banner that says “Panelists!” With #WBW2025 below it. All around there are different color circles like floating bubbles, and they all have little dots on them like nipples. MEGHAN AZAD, PhD biochemist, epidemiologist, microbiologist REBECCA POWELL, PhD, CLC Human milk immunologist, certified lactation counselor KARINNE CARDOSO MUNIZ, MD Neonatologist, grad student in Pediatrics and Child Health (MSc) MARION M. BENDIXEN, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC board-certified lactation consultant, nurse-scientist, clinical and translational scientist KAYTLIN KRUTSCH, PhD, PharmD, MBA, BCPS Lactation pharmacologist, director of the InfantRisk Center At the bottom it says: r/AskScience There is an arrow pointing to the right.

Third page of the scrolling flyer. The breastfeeding alien floats in the background. The color scheme is retro, with teal, butter yellow, navy, Air Force blue, and orange/peach tones. In the middle there is a banner that says “Panelists!” like page 2. All around there are different color circles like floating bubbles, and they all have little dots on them like nipples. RYAN PACE, PhD Cellular and molecular biologist BRIDGET McGANN Biological anthropologist SANOJI WIJENAYAKE Cell and molecular biologist SARAH BRUNSON, RN/LC, PhD(c), IBCLC Board-certified lactation consultant, PhD candidate in Nursing MIENA HALL, MD, IBCLC Lactation medicine physician, low milk supply researcher RACHEL FRIESEN, BA, BN, RN, IBCLC Nurse educator and neonatal intensive care nurse There is an arrow pointing to the right.

Fourth page. More floating boobs, except this time the boobs do not have text on them. Instead, the text is overplayed over word boxes. On the left is a colorful logo for world breast-feeding week that features a family with a baby drawn in rainbow line with a green arrow encircling them. Below it, the text reads: “#WORLDBREASTFEEDINGWEEK celebrates all breastfeeding journeys, no matter what they look like. It is held in the first week of August every year.” The word “All” is bolded. On the right side of the breastfeeding reddit alien appears again. It is sitting atop a graphic of the earth. Below it, the text reads: “The theme for 2025 is focused on breastfeeding as a sustainable source of nutrition-but one that requires sustainable support systems order to thrive.” “Sustainable source of nutrition” is bolded. “sustainable support systems order to thrive” is both bolded and italicized.

🦖 What was the first animal that breastfed?

👵🏽 Can you breastfeed after menopause?

🌈 Does the color of breast milk mean anything?

🔬 Why does breastmilk contain stem cells?

💉 Does breastmilk protect against Covid?

🐄 How do different animals milks differ?

Come ask us anything on FRIYAY!

Discontinuous ridiculous stools – a preprint full of tortured phrases and stolen data “Patients with provocative entrail illness unclassified gave to crisis division a 3-day history of sickness, retching, migraine and irregular stomach torment alongside discontinuous ridiculou…

And my latest blog post here:
Discontinuous ridiculous stools - a preprint full of tortured phrases and stolen data
scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/28/d...

Mothers speak about long-term use of pasteurized donor human milk, from Ying Jin in New Zealand, as we get ready for #WorldBreastfeedingWeek
#WBW2025
go.nature.com/40TuUQ7

I can send you a bibliography. Lactation is very robust generally, even among very malnourished mothers. evidence shows the first signs of impact are on volume not composition, but protracted calorie deficit obvs negatively impacts volume & comp. Poor quality of available studies and few studies.

Did a rapid research review today for a colleague at a humanitarian NGO on the physiological tipping point for lactation in the context of famine. Fucking hell.

🚨 I’m looking for two enthusiastic scientists to join our team at Cambridge to explore the molecular mechanisms of lactation, early nutrition, and their long-term impact on health.

Apply here:
👉 RA: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51988/
👉 Postdoc: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/

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A big thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract!

We have received almost 2.800 abstracts for the ICM Triennial Congress 2026. Your insights, and commitment to advancing midwifery will make for an incredibly inspiring event.

Stay tuned for all the updates.

#Midwives2026  #OneMillionMore

Attention any doctors interested in learning more about #breastfeeding!
Online workshops coming up soon: Sat 9 Aug (Essentials) & Sun 10 Aug (Advanced).
*Breastfeeding Medicine Network Australia and New Zealand*
I'm speaking on the Sunday!
na.eventscloud.com/website/8729...

World Breastfeeding Week 2025 - Breastfeeding-friendly environments support sustainable infant feeding For World Breastfeeding Week 2025, we've collated influential publications across the globe in International Breastfeeding Journal that highlight the importance of supporting breastfeeding for a susta...

Ahead of World Breastfeeding Week
Ten articles in last 12 m investigating ways to support breastfeeding
We need governments, institutions, families & the community to provide supportive environments that enable women to reach their #breastfeeding goals
#IntBreastfeedJ
#WBW2025
tinyurl.com/5n8jjk6h

Painting featuring a standing white woman in a long blue dress, facing left, at work in a factory holding bobbins of cotton

UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions #WomensArt

Bivalent prefusion F vaccination in pregnancy and respiratory syncytial virus hospitalisation in infants in the UK: results of a multicentre, test-negative, case-control study In the real-world setting of the first season of vaccine implementation in England and Scotland, maternal RSVpreF vaccination was effective and equivalent to trial settings in reducing the risk of hos...

👶 Maternal RSV vaccine cuts hospital stays

A UK study finds that vaccinating pregnant women with the RSVpreF bivalent vaccine reduced RSV-related infant hospitalisations by up to 72%, mirroring clinical trial results.

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm #RSV #Vaccines 🧪

Painting of a woman lying on grass on a slope in a pretty rural landscape of trees and fields with the sea in the distance

Landscape by the Sea, 1919
by Expressionist painter
Gabriele Münter #WomensArt

Here are some enlightening figures. Substantial food for thought on the issues the scholarly publication system is facing. bit.ly/46FcA0w

One of nature's amazing engineers, the beaver, takes down a tree in a day. Notice how he listens intently for the silent creaks that warn him the tree is coming down and in which direction it will fall. 🎶👉🆙 #beaver
#engineering #mammal #science #nature

🤝 #ResourceTuesday
At ICM, we support responsible partnerships that fund midwifery without compromising our values or integrity.
📄 Learn how we ensure ethical collaboration: zurl.co/1QDkG

We came face to face with a raccoon outside our accommodation at the Grand Canyon at dusk last year. My first encounter!

RFK Junior is stoking fears about vaccine safety. Here’s why he’s wrong – and the impact it could have

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