Lactation Specialists 
by Sal Gerald

Many of you have emailed me directly asking for lactation information- research papers, books and experts on the subject. As time allows I may be able to respond to personal questions directly.           

Most of the following people listed below have researched and written extensively on the subject whiles others have large, informative collections on the subject of Human Lactation.

Note, many are found in rare book and manuscript collections or are out of print. Many are found in university medical libraries. This is by no means a complete list. But it gives those of you with a deeper interest a good starting point. Be aware that some of these people have passed on.

For years much of what we knew about lactation came from the works of the huge money making dairy industry. Research monies to study human lactation were impossible to find. Especially so since the large baby formula companies took over the how by giving away free formula to new mothers upon being discharged from hospital.

Therefore many of the following professionals took it upon themselves to venture into the subject, supported by writing books, by inventing items such as the Lact-Aid nurser and by selling lactation related goods such as bras, pumps and lectures. Even today things are not much better. The giant pharmaceutical companies joined by the formula companies make sure that lactation research funds are scarce. I know first hand, years ago having worked for Nestles and for Reckitt and Coleman Pharmaceuticals.
 
I hope you will find it informative.

  E. F. Patrice Jellife, MPH, FRSH and Derrick B. Jellife, MD, FAAP
School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA

  Chele Marmet of THE LACTATION INSTITUTE and Breastfeeding Clinic
The Institute was founded in 1979 by Chele Marmet and Ellen Shell where they developed the first professional lactation consultant training program.

  Dr. Pierre Budin
Dr. Abraham Jacobi was the first physician in the United States to devote himself to the care of children. He is considered the father of pediatrics in America. In 1860 in New York, he established the first outpatient clinic for children.

Two years later in Paris, Dr. Pierre Budin, a French obstetrician, set up the first clinic for newborns. In addition to instructing parents in feeding and nutrition, he weighed and measured newborns - almost all of whom were born at home. Dr. Budin also established a nursery to care for sick newborn and premature babies, including a wet nursing program

In Paris, Dr. Budin designed a simple machine called an incubator. Hoping to interest the public in this new way to care for babies, Dr. Budin sent his Exposition with five premature infants, five incubators, and five nurses. People were very interested - up to 3,000 visitors a day filed by the tiny babies in their "human hatcheries!"

When I last mentioned Dr. Budin, one of the members on this board wondered why I even mentioned "SOME UNKNOWN DOCTOR". Unknown yes to those that have not studied the treatise on human lactation.

  Dr. Harold Waller MD FRCOG
British Hospital for Mothers & Babies Woolwhich England
Among his works, The Breasts and Breastfeeding

  Margarett Mead  Anthropologist
Reports on long term lactation in various primitive tribes.

  Dr. Jack Newman MD
http://www.drjacknewman.com/
Extensive website from a current world renowned expert

  Dana Raphael, PhD, Director of the Human Lactation Center, Connecticut

  Kathleen G. Auerbach  PhD
      *  Clinical Lactation: A Visual Guide
      * Current Issues in Clinical Lactation 2002

  R.M.Applebaum MD  Several papers and books

  Michael Newton MD, Niles Newton PhD
Several studies and papers/books on Human Lac.

  Karen Pryor
Karen wrote the first edition of Nursing Your Baby in 1963. A biologist by training, she currently writes and lectures on the art of positive reinforcement training.

  J.L.Avery (inducing expert)
Jimmie Lynn Avery's 1973 study of over 400 relactating women is often over-looked, though the Lact-aid device, invented by Ms. Avery's husband to assist adoptive mothers has been used by millions of women world wide.
http://www.lact-aid.com/

  Lactnet for professional postings and archives
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=lactnet

  LLL  LaLeche League
Vast collection of human lactation research

  Sal Gerald   Clinical Herbalist, Nutritionist,
                    Herbal & Vitamin Therapy
                    Lactation Consultant, Inducing Specialist
                    Breast Milk Bank Director (retired)
                    Breast Pump Design Consultant
                    Psychotherapist MFT,                  
                   (Marriage & Family Therapy)
            
I can be reached at.... naturalchoiceee@yahoo.com

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