Meet Dr. Jacobus Strydom, a family doctor in Terrace, BC, with a passion for maternity care. I recently talked with him about a technique called prenatal hand expression.Dr. Strydom learned about this...
This is my family’s story about feeding our first child, Soren. Feeding was not as easy as I had anticipated. With the support of our local midwife, my dedicated partner, and a lactation consultant,...
2023 was a record-breaking year for human milk donations in Northern BC! Staff working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University Hospital of Northern BC (UHNBC) in Prince George are...
“I’d like to send my milk on the bus.” Wait. What? You may have heard of the human milk bank in Vancouver. You may also know about the human milk collection depot in Prince George (PG). Bu...
Have you heard about hand expressing milk in pregnancy (also known as “antenatal milk expression”)? It can help to get breastfeeding off to a good start and is an option for most low-risk pregnanc...
January 27 is World Breast Pumping Day, a day to share stories to help acknowledge and celebrate breast milk pumping and human milk feeding. Today, we hear from Jessie King, an assistant professor of ...
Pasteurized donor human milk (PDHM) is life-saving for babies who are born prematurely. As World Prematurity Day nears, I’d like to highlight the need for breast milk donations to feed these and oth...
