Perspectives

By Naomi Bar-Yam, PhD, and Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH Ranging from scuttling of environmental air and water protections, seeking rescindment of the Affordable Care Act... More > about Why Breastfeeding Matters for Mothers and Children (and Families) Everywhere: A Public Health Imperative

Edited from original 2016 post, updated for 2018 National Public Health Week.   As we have discussed in our previous National Public Health Week blogs, breastfeeding... More > about Is Milk Exchange Normal?

Portsmouth Regional Hospital began offering pasteurized donor human milk in 2015—initially because a parent requested it—and soon thereafter noted a remarkable effect: exclusive breast milk... More > about Portsmouth Regional Hospital: Donor Milk Helps Raise Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding Rates

Guess Who Was a Preemie? As the founding director of Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast, and now president of the Human Milk Banking Association of North... More > about What Inspired Me to Open the Milk Bank

Adapted from original January 18, 2016 post. In observing the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, we think about how he was making the dream... More > about Making the Dream True