For nearly a year, Ayden (she/her, they/them) has been providing infant bodywork as part of the collaborative lactation support offered...

Jessica came to me while she was a student, interested in learning about my approach to lactation support. She then took the initiative...

Robert Stokes is a dad in our Teaching Babies to Nurse community whose love language is clearly “acts of service” and “quality time.”...

For the better part of a year, we have been lucky to have Jamila Squires as part of the TBTN team, who brings a host of experience from...

Four weeks into my baby’s life, I was still crying every day. When I gave birth, I had been an international board-certified lactation...

Welcome to Part 2 of puzzling out the buccal frenula! We’ve talked about what the buccal frenulum is in Buccal Frenula and Breastfeeding:...

"Just wanted to share: Thank goodness we got her nursing! We were up in a very remote part of Canada this weekend at our family cabin. We...

A few weeks ago I had my youngest patient. Four hours old, my son. The birth had been long and difficult, and he had swallowed a good...

What exactly is a buccal tie? Understanding the frenula has become pivotal to supporting breastfeeding. Although there is still much to...

Finding individualized nursing support through Mother’s Milk: Baby’s Body at Teaching Babies to Nurse gave my son and I the experience...

Many of the skills and tools used at Teaching Babies to Nurse are nontraditional. For example, I would tell you: deep latch doesn't...

In our many months of working together now, Ellen and I continue to meet babies struggling unnecessarily with one of their most important...

We get so busy with the day-to-day that we sometimes forget to take a breath and say thank you. So, thank you to everyone who comes to...

“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.” -A.T. Still, founder of osteopathy In studying babies’ bodies in medical school, from the...

The first day of Mother’s Milk | Baby’s Body worked! It was amazing, and she is so clearly good at what she does! Dr. Emily Esmaili and I...

Before we found you: Birth Centre, with Nurse, trying to improve latch Two IBCLC s Paediatrician to assess development (and said its...

Dear Ellen, I’ve been meaning to write you for weeks now, but I think it’s actually lovely to have had the distance from our last visit...

Hi Ellen! I just wanted to reach out and thank you for all of your help with my baby! I have been able to continue exclusively pumping...

We first heard about you from Sibahan and Ami-“she’s the best” “she’s a baby whisperer” they said. I thought to myself “how much could a...