Possums Breastfeeding & Lactation articles which address lactation non-profits, ideology, and harm

Dr Pamela Douglas

The Caeilleach Diaries

Lactation non-profits, ideology, and real world harms

Dr Pamela Douglas, BMNANZ, and ABM correspondance August 2023-April 2026.pdf

Lacation non-profits fail to prioritise the best interests of breastfeeding families over territoriality and ideology

Helping women with their milk and the cruelty of the pure

Unravelling the purity myths of breast milk and lactation non-profits

The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners pulls commercial levers to 'cancel' the Possums (or NDC) programs' genuinely research-based lactation education

PBL Advanced

Growing collective knowledge in lactation medicine: the vital role of dissent; integration across multiple domains; and the destructive power of exclusion

The politics of exclusion and extraction: a call for change in the field of lactation medicine so that breastfeeding families receive the best possible science-based support

Comparison between lactation non-profit ideologies and the ethical lactation medicine of the future

The world's leading breastfeeding non-profits exclude groundbreaking research and innovative science-based education initiatives for ideological and commercial reasons

Ideology and groupthink offer comfort and belonging in a complex world - but are also divisive and unkind

How to identify and mitigate against groupthink in breastfeeding medicine (or in any part of the health system)

Case study: 'cancelling' whilst extracting from an evidence-based primary care innovation which offers alternatives to low value care for management of breastfeeding problems and unsettled infant behaviour

Free resources/Breastfeeding, infant care, and the perinatal period: health systemn contexts and NDC

Video 4. Speaking out: Maureen Minchin discusses how exclusion of researchers due to claims of WHO Code violation without transparency or scientific rationale seriously biases lactation medicine education towards non-evidence-based interventions

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