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What a Lactation Consultant Tells Her Friends About Breastfeeding Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Ochsner Baton Rouge. Tell Me How You Really Feel. I wouldn’t be an International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiner (LBLCE) unless I believed in the power of breastfeeding as the ideal way to provide nutrition to your baby. However, I meet women every day who have decided to formula feed, or breast and formula feed. Sometimes, it’s because a mother has had a bad experience breastfeeding a previous child. Sometimes no one in her family has breastfed, or she doesn’t think she’ll be able to provide breastmilk when she returns to work. Sometimes, she just doesn’t want to. Regardless of the reason, all mothers have the right to decide...

Disclosure :: this post is sponsored by Children's Hospital. Headache is one of the most common complaints encountered in medicine. It is estimated that over the course of a year 50 – 75 percent of adults will experience a headache with 30 percent of those patients having a headache consistent with migraine. But headaches are not just an adult problem, as headaches are common for children too. Headache prevalence in children is 58 percent, with migraine having a prevalence of approximately 7-8 percent in children up to age 14 and even higher in older adolescents. In fact, half of all migraine sufferers will experience their first attack prior to the age of 12. The World Health Organization estimates that half...

Disclosure :: Thanks to the generosity of our partners at Britax, 4 different Red Stick Moms Blog writers had the opportunity to test drive the new B-Mobile Stroller and we all reached consensus that this is a "must have" stroller. Any Amazon links included in this post are affiliate links; all opinions are 100% my own.  Britax B-Mobile :: The Little Black Dress of Strollers Let's talk strollers, mamas.  How many strollers have you purchased in your motherhood lifetime? For me, a mom of four, I've probably owned ... six strollers? I know for a fact that of those six-ish strollers, two were travel system strollers and three were umbrella strollers. AND before getting this amazing gift from Britax, I was headed to grab a new lightweight stroller for my...

Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by My IR. That stated, we are really excited about this new system that makes it easier to be organized when it comes to immunizations.  Get Your Family’s Immunization Records Right When You Need Them Finding the perfect summer camp for your child can be tough, but registering them can be even more daunting. Often times summer camps require immunization records, which can be time consuming and tricky to obtain from your doctor. Fortunately, the Louisiana Department of Health makes available MyIR – an online resource for immunization records.  Using MyIR you can review, download and print your family’s official immunization records online! It’s ideal for summer camp registration, but also ideal for seeing a new...

Disclosure :: this post is sponsored by Children's Hospital.  Get a Jump Start on Heart Disease Prevention With Your Little Ones February is National Heart Month! To observe this very important month of awareness for heart disease, we would like to share a few ways to work to prevent Heart Disease before it is even a problem – in childhood! While heart disease is primarily a health issue in adults, and not children, many of the factors that cause heart disease begin in childhood. According to the CDC, one in every six children in the U.S. are considered obese, a statistic that concerns doctors and parents alike, as many of the unhealthy habits that contribute to childhood obesity can lead to...