Jan Riordan: An Oral History

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
Aimee R. Eden
Keyword(s):  
South Florida ◽  
Breastfeeding Support ◽  
Lactation Consultant ◽  
Human Lactation ◽  
The People ◽  
Full Study ◽  
Professional Body ◽  
La Leche League ◽  
Editorial Review ◽  
Wichita State University

While conducting my dissertation research on the professionalization of breastfeeding support, I identified key “founders” of lactation consulting. I focused on the people involved in the formation of the International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, as certified by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners and represented by the International Lactation Consultant Association. Jan Riordan was at the top of my list. As the editor and co-author of the first text on breastfeeding and human lactation for non-physicians, Dr. Riordan shaped the professional body of knowledge for International Board Certified Lactation Consultants and others providing clinical breastfeeding support. She was a La Leche League leader and founding member of the Kansas La Leche League International Chapter, served on the first International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners Board of Directors, and served on the first editorial review board of the Journal of Human Lactation. She was a professor of nursing at Wichita State University for 23 years. I met her at an International Lactation Consultant Association conference in San Antonio, Texas in 2010, just after she had retired from Wichita State, and I interviewed her by phone on August 10, 2010. This is from a taped interview. (AE = Aimee Eden’s initials; JR = Jan Riordan’s initials). The University of South Florida IRB approved the full study.

Book Reviews

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-205
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
West Indies ◽  
South Florida ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
The People ◽  
The Caribbean

-Peter Hulme, Simon Gikandi, Writing in limbo: Modernism and Caribbean literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. x + 260 pp.-Charles V. Carnegie, Alistair Hennessy, Intellectuals in the twentieth-century Caribbean (Volume 1 - Spectre of the new class: The Commonwealth Caribbean). London: Macmillan, 1992. xvii 204 pp.-Nigel Rigby, Anne Walmsley, The Caribbean artists movement, 1966-1972: A literary and cultural history. London: New Beacon Books, 1992. xx + 356 pp.-Carl Pedersen, Tyrone Tillery, Claude McKay: A black poet's struggle for identity. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. xii + 235 pp.-Simone Dreyfus, Irving Rouse, The Tainos: Rise and decline of the people who greeted Columbus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. xii + 211 pp.-Louis Allaire, Antonio M. Stevens-Arroyo, Cave of the Jagua: The mythological world of the Taino. Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. xiii + 282 pp.-Irving Rouse, William F. Keegan, The people who discovered Columbus: The prehistory of the Bahamas. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992. xx + 279 pp.-Neil L. Whitehead, Philip P. Boucher, Cannibal encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992. xii + 217 pp.-Peter Kloos, Kaliña, des amérindiens à Paris: Photographies du prince Roland. Présentées par Gérard Collomb. Paris: Créaphis, 1992. 119 pp.-Maureen Warner-Lewis, Alan Gregor Cobley ,The African-Caribbean connection: Historical and cultural perspectives. Bridgetown, Barbados: Department of History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, 1990. viii + 171 pp., Alvin Thompson (eds)-H. Hoetink, Jean-Luc Bonniol, La couleur comme maléfice: une illustration créole de la généalogie des 'Blancs' et des 'Noirs'. Paris: Albin Michel, 1992. 304 pp.-Michael Aceto, Richard Price ,Two evenings in Saramaka. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvi + 417 pp., Sally Price (eds)-Jorge Pérez Rolón, Vernon W. Boggs, Salsiology: Afro-Cuban music and the evolution of Salsa in New York City. New York: Greenwood, 1992. xvii + 387 pp.-Martin F. Murphy, Sherri Grasmuck ,Between two islands: Dominican international migration. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xviii + 247 pp., Patricia R. Pessar (eds)-Rosario Espinal, Richard S. Hillman ,Distant neighbors in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic and Jamaica in comparative perspective. New York: Praeger, 1992. xviii + 199 pp., Thomas D'Agostino (eds)-Svend E. Holsoe, Neville A.T. Hall, Slave society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. Edited by B.W. Higman. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1992. xxiv + 287 pp.-Light Townsend Cummins, Francisco Morales Padrón, The journal of Don Francisco Saavedra de Sangronis 1780-1783. Translated by Aileen Moore Topping. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989. xxxvii + 380 pp.-Francisco A. Scarano, Laird W. Bergad, Cuban rural society in the nineteenth century: The social and economic history of monoculture in Matanzas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xxi + 425 pp.-Robert L. Paquette, Larry R. Jensen, Children of colonial despotism: Press, politics, and culture in Cuba, 1790-1840. Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1988. xviii + 211 pp.-Robert L. Paquette, Anton L. Allahar, Class, politics, and sugar in colonial Cuba. Lewiston NY; The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. xi + 217 pp.-Aline Helg, Josef Opatrny, U.S. Expansionism and Cuban annexationism in the 1850s. Prague: Charles University, 1990. 271 pp.-Rita Giacalone, Humberto García Muñiz ,Bibliografía militar del Caribe. Río Piedras PR: Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1992. 177 pp., Betsaida Vélez Natal (eds)-Carlos E. Santiago, Irma Tirado de Alonso, Trade issues in the Caribbean. Philadelphia: Gordon & Breach, 1992. xv + 231 pp.-Drexel G. Woodson, Frantz Pratt, Haiti: Guide to the periodical literature in English, 1800-1990. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1991. xiv + 313 pp.-Gary Brana-Shute, Livio Sansone, Hangen boven de oceaan: het gewone overleven van Creoolse jongeren in Paramaribo. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 1992. 58 pp.-Ronald Gill, Dolf Huijgers ,Landhuizen van Curacao en Bonaire. Amsterdam: Persimmons Management. 1991. 286 pp., Lucky Ezechiëls (eds)-Alex van Stipriaan, Waldo Heilbron, Colonial transformations and the decomposition of Dutch plantation slavery in Surinam. Amsterdam: Amsterdam centre for Caribbean studies (AWIC), University of Amsterdam, 1992. 133 pp.-Rosemarijn Hoefte, Bea Lalmahomed, Hindostaanse vrouwen: de geschiedenis van zes generaties. Utrecht: Jan van Arkel, 1992. 159 pp.-Aart G. Broek, Peter Hoefnagels ,Antilliaans spreekwoordenboek. Amsterdam: Thomas Rap, 1991. 92 pp., Shon Wé Hoogenbergen (eds)

The Journal of Human Lactation: A Reflective Discussion

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-660
Author(s):  
Aimee R. Eden ◽  
Sara Gill ◽  
Karleen Gribble ◽  
Elien Rouw ◽  
Jacqueline H. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Feeding ◽  
Lactation Consultant ◽  
Young Child Feeding ◽  
Human Lactation ◽  
Infant And Young Child ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
History Of

Research about lactation and breastfeeding has exploded since the Journal of Human Lactation ( JHL) began publishing in 1985. To discuss the 3-decade-long role of the Journal in promoting, supporting, and disseminating lactation research, editors convened a multidisciplinary group of lactation researchers and providers which comprised three senior researchers and one clinical practitioner, all of whom have a long history of lactation advocacy. Their discussion took place on July 1, 2019. Dr Aimee Eden is a medical anthropologist who leads the qualitative research efforts in a small research department. Her dissertation research focused on the maternal and child healthcare workforce, and the professionalization of breastfeeding support. She served on the Board of Directors of the International Board of Lactation Examiners (2010–2016) and currently serves on the board of the Monetary Investment for Lactation Consultant Certification. Dr Karleen Gribble has been conducting research for 15 years about infant and young child feeding in emergencies, long-term breastfeeding, milk sharing, early childhood trauma, adoption, and fostering. She is an Australian Breastfeeding Association community educator and breastfeeding counselor and a member of the Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Core Group. Elien Rouw is a practicing physician in Germany specialized in healthy infant care, with a long-standing specialization in breastfeeding medicine. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, is a member of the German National Breastfeeding Committee and their delegate to the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. Dr Jackie Wolf is an historian of medicine, whose research focuses on the history of childbirth and breastfeeding practices in the United States and how those practices have shaped women’s and children’s health, as well as public health, over time. Her latest book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press and funded by a 3 year grant from the National Institutes of Health, is Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence. Dr Sara Gill moderated the discussion. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Lactation Consultant Association for 5 years, and has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Lactation for the past 4 years. Her research has focused on breastfeeding among vulnerable populations. (Participants’ comments are noted as AE = Aimee Eden; SG = Sara Gill; KG = Karleen Gribble; ER = Elien Rouw; JW = Jacqueline Wolf).

scholarly journals Climate Change and Florida: Frequently Asked Questions

EDIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (5) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Joshua Papacek ◽  
Ashley Smyth ◽  
Holly Abeels ◽  
Alicia Betancourt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ice Sheets ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
The People ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Municipal Workers ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

Climate change is considered one of the biggest challenges facing society. As global temperatures continue to rise, we are threatened by melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events. Climate change is also something that the people in south Florida live with daily. Still, the science of climate change is complicated, leaving many in the region looking for trusted information about why climate should matter to them. The purpose of this new 8-page FAQ document is to provide answers to commonly asked questions regarding climate change. The questions come from south Florida residents and municipal workers concerned with the climate outcomes to their region. The FAQ address several areas of concerns, including the basic science behind climate change, the projected impacts to residents of south Florida, and actions that individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprints. Written by Joshua Papacek, Ashley Smyth, Holly Abeels, and Alicia Betancourt, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Soil and Water Sciences.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss682

Childbirth and Breastfeeding in 20th-Century America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Martucci
Keyword(s):  
Infant Feeding ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Home Birth ◽  
Breastfeeding Support ◽  
Natural Childbirth ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Gynecology And Obstetrics ◽  
History Of Childbirth ◽  
La Leche League ◽  
The 1960S

By the end of the 19th century, the medical specialties of gynecology and obstetrics established a new trend in women’s healthcare. In the 20th century, more and more American mothers gave birth under the care of a university-trained physician. The transition from laboring and delivering with the assistance of female family, neighbors, and midwives to giving birth under medical supervision is one of the most defining shifts in the history of childbirth. By the 1940s, the majority of American mothers no longer expected to give birth at home, but instead traveled to hospitals, where they sought reassurance from medical experts as well as access to pain-relieving drugs and life-saving technologies. Infant feeding followed a similar trajectory. Traditionally, infant feeding in the West had been synonymous with breastfeeding, although alternatives such as wet nursing and the use of animal milks and broths had existed as well. By the early 20th century, the experiences of women changed in relation to sweeping historical shifts in immigration, urbanization, and industrialization, and so too did their abilities and interests in breastfeeding. Scientific study of infant feeding yielded increasingly safer substitutes for breastfeeding, and by the 1960s fewer than 1 in 5 mothers breastfed. In the 1940s and 1950s, however, mothers began to organize and to resist the medical management of childbirth and infant feeding. The formation of childbirth education groups helped spread information about natural childbirth methods and the first dedicated breastfeeding support organization, La Leche League, formed in 1956. By the 1970s, the trend toward medicalized childbirth and infant feeding that had defined the first half of the century was in significant flux. By the end of the 20th century, efforts to harmonize women’s interests in more “natural” motherhood experiences with the existing medical system led to renewed interest in midwifery, home birth, and birth centers. Despite the cultural shift in favor of fewer medical interventions, rates of cesarean sections climbed to new heights by the end of the 1990s. Similarly, although pressures on mothers to breastfeed mounted by the end of the century, the practice itself increasingly relied upon the use of technologies such as the breast pump. By the close of the century, women’s agency in pursuing more natural options proceeded in tension with the technological, social, medical, and political systems that continued to shape their options.

Geodemographies of Breastfeeding Support

2020 ◽  
pp. 089033442094141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony H. Grubesic ◽  
Kelly M. Durbin
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Breastfeeding Support ◽  
Peer Counselors ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
Spatial Analytics ◽  
La Leche League

Background Mother-to-mother breastfeeding support organizations provide important information and guidance for helping mothers initiate and maintain breastfeeding, postpartum. However, the availability of this support is limited by a constellation of barriers, including race, culture, socioeconomic status, and geography. Research aims To identify the geodemographic composition of communities where breastfeeding support was available from the mother-to-mother support organizations Breastfeeding USA and La Leche League, identify underlying issues of equity, and highlight locations where more support resources may be needed. Methods The locations of mother-to-mother support meetings were collected by ZIP code ( N = 180) and were combined with a geodemographic database and exploratory spatial data analysis to explore the compositional characteristics of communities served ( N = 1,173). Results Significant gaps in the geographic distribution of breastfeeding support existed. While many metropolitan areas benefited from numerous mother-to-mother support groups and peer counselors, the geographic footprint of this support favored communities that were white, affluent, and suburban. Conclusion Spatial analytics combined with geodemographic analysis provide a unique perspective into the diverse landscape of mother-to-mother breastfeeding support groups at a local level. Our results highlighted inequities in the distribution of support provided and prescriptive guidance regarding where more resources may be needed.

scholarly journals MATERNAL VIRTUAL INFANT NUTRITION SUPPORT CLINIC FOR THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (MAVINS-NICU) - A QUALITATIVE STUDY

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. e28-e28
Author(s):  
Stientje Rai
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Breast Milk ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Infant Nutrition ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Breastfeeding Support ◽  
Lactation Consultant ◽  
Nicu Admission

Abstract BACKGROUND Canadian exclusive breastfeeding rates at 6 months of age are only 24.2%, and are even lower in mothers of infants requiring Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) admission. An interactive website was developed that provides professional (articles, videos) and peer (discussion forum for peers, access to a lactation consultant) breastfeeding support to mothers of infants requiring NICU admission. OBJECTIVES The objective of the study is to outline maternal perceptions of the breastfeeding support website (MAVINS-NICU) in a level-III NICU setting. DESIGN/METHODS This study represents the qualitative research component of the MAVINS-NICU project. Semi-structured interviews were conducted antenatally with women at risk of delivering an infant requiring NICU admission (n=6), and postnatally with mothers of infants admitted to the NICU (n=7), regarding their experiences with the MAVINS-NICU website. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed by a professional transcriptionist. Analysis occurred in an iterative fashion using open and axial coding strategies to identify majors themes. RESULTS Several themes were identified: 1) Women seemed comforted that a reliable hospital-provided resource would be available to them after birth, “…I’m very happy that I’m going to have lots of support”; 2) Women felt overwhelmed after birth, but often accessed the website on their phone or read newly posted comments on the discussion forum in response to automatically generated weekly emails from the website, “I’m just, overwhelmed… because I’m [in the NICU a lot], I only have my phone and it’s just easier to look at the emails… [they] just pop up”; 3) Mothers felt extremely comforted by the peer support component of the website, “to see what other moms are going through … similar emotions or issues … to see that I’m not the only one [helps]”; 4) Mothers enjoyed remote access and quick online lactation consultant response times, “ … [you can] get help even when there’s no one around”, “I was really surprised … by how quickly I got responses”; 5) Majority of mothers expressed a sense of empowerment to provide breast milk with the help of MAVINS support, “…being able to breastfeed eventually is a big deal for me… [it made me feel] like I was accomplishing something”. CONCLUSION Mothers of infants admitted to the NICU found the MAVINS-NICU website very helpful and considered it part of their success in providing breast milk for their babies.

INTERNATIONAL LACTATION CONSULTANT ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES 1996 MANUSCRIPT COMPETITION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-499
Author(s):  
K. G. Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Lactation Consultant ◽  
Human Lactation

The International Lactation Consultant Association is sponsoring a competition designed to identify outstanding manuscripts relating to human lactation or breast-feeding in 1996. Authors may enter one of two categories: a Literature Review competition or a Research Paper competition. The winner in each category will receive $500 (US currency); winning manuscripts will be published in the Journal of Human Lactation. Entrants need not be members of the International Lactation Consultant Association. Students are encouraged to enter. Competition in the Research Paper competition is open to published or unpublished authors; the Literature Review competition is limited to currently unpublished authors. The postmark deadline for entry in the 1996 competition is January 5, 1996. To obtain guidelines for submitting a manuscript for consideration in the competition, send a self-addressed (and stamped if US) envelope to:

Acknowledgments

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-50
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
The People ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Cooperative Venture

The editors would simply like to conclude our second issue, Archaeology and Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Management, by thanking the people who were instrumental in putting this issue together. Special thanks go to Paul Shackel and David Gadsby of the University of Maryland for recruiting experts in cultural heritage research and practice among their colleagues, and for prodding them along as needed. We also offer sincere thanks to Antoinette Jackson of the University of South Florida for providing the same kind of assistance with her students. This was truly a cooperative venture between two universities that are dedicated to promoting cooperation between archaeologists and cultural anthropologists in the protection and management of cultural resources and, as Cheryl White points out in her article, ultimately protecting people whose cultural integrity and lives are threatened. At a time when anthropology is increasingly threatened by division and fragmentation, it is nice to be reminded that ethnographers and archaeologists can come together to work on both scholarly, humanitarian and practical issues of great importance. Thirdly, we offer special thanks to Erve Chambers for providing an excellent overview of cultural heritage studies in his introduction to this issue. As always, thanks to Neil Hann for keeping us on track, dealing with last minute substitutions and getting everything to fit together.

INTERNATIONAL LACTATION CONSULTANT ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES 1996 MANUSCRIPT COMPETITION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (6) ◽  
pp. 859-859
Author(s):  
K. G. Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Lactation Consultant ◽  
Human Lactation

The International Lactation Consultant Association is sponsoring a competition designed to identify outstanding manuscripts relating to human lactation or breast-feeding in 1996. Authors may enter one of two categories: a Literature Review competition or a Research Paper competition. The winner in each category will receive $500 (US currency); winning manuscripts will be published in the Journal of Human Lactation. Entrants need not be members of the International Lactation Consultant Association. Students are encouraged to enter. Competition in the Research Paper competition is open to published on unpublished authors; the Literature Review competition is limited to currently unpublished authors. The postmark deadline for entry in the 1996 competition is January 5, 1996. To obtain guidelines for submitting a manuscript for consideration in the competition, send a self-addressed (and stamped if US) envelope to:

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