Success Story: International Lactation Consultant Association

  Project: Website Overhaul for the International Lactation Consultant Association The International Lactation Consultant Association is a professional organization serving lactation consultants around the globe. BirthSwell – along with collaborator Amber McCann executed a complete overhaul of the website. Challenges: Create a mobile friendly design that reflects the organization’s international nature Highlight the organization’s values…

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Top Breastfeeding Pages on Facebook

Since there’s no easy way to identify the top Facebook pages on a topic like breastfeeding, I’m crowdsourcing it! I’ve identified what I think are the ten U.S. Facebook pages that focus on breastfeeding and have the most fans. (I’m a huge believer that audience size isn’t everything! But right now I’m looking for pages with the…

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Facebook Page Image Size Cheat Sheet

Just getting started with your Facebook page? Here’s the image size for your cover image and profile image: COVER IMAGE:   PROFILE IMAGE:         Our favorite tool for making cover and profile images, even if you aren’t a designer? Canva. Have you made a cover image you love? Want some feedback on…

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Guest Post at Science and Sensibility

Honored to have had the opportunity to talk with Saraswathi Vedam, the convener and chair of the Home Birth Consensus Summit. One of the most powerful things about the Summit is that it isn’t bringing together “the choir.” The Summit brings together all of the stakeholders in the maternity care system, with the goal of…

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Guest Post: How One Online Community Managed Growth

A homebirth cesarean (HBC) is not a surgical birth performed at home by midwives. It describes intended out-of-hospital births that end in cesareans. From this name and a conversation between me, an HBC mother, and my homebirth midwife, the idea for a book about these births was conceived. From that book idea, a nonprofit was born…

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Guest Post At Lactation Matters

I trust moms to make the best possible decisions for themselves and their families. Moms are best equipped to make those decisions when they have access to high-quality, accurate, evidence-based information about birth. Learn more about the connections between birth and breastfeeding and a new educational tool for moms over at my guest post at…

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