Luz Chavez, IBCLC

09/05/2025

Myth: Midwifery care is only about birth.
Fact: Midwives provide continuity of care throughout pregnancy, labor, postpartum, and beyond. Many also offer newborn care, breastfeeding support, family planning guidance, and well-woman care.

Midwifery is about so much more than birth—it’s about whole-person care through every stage of life.

08/10/2025

🌸 La leche materna no caduca 🌸

En cada gota de leche materna hay algo más que nutrientes:
hay amor, protección, consuelo y un lazo único entre mamá e hijo.

Muchos opinan que “a cierta edad ya no sirve” o que “pierde nutrientes”…
pero la ciencia es clara: la leche materna sigue adaptándose a las necesidades del niño, tenga meses o años.
Sigue aportando proteínas, grasas saludables, vitaminas, defensas y, sobre todo, seguridad emocional.

La lactancia no tiene fecha de vencimiento.
Se termina cuando mamá y bebé así lo deciden, no cuando la sociedad lo impone.

Si tu instinto y tu corazón dicen que sigas, sigue.
No hay nada más natural que alimentar con amor… el tiempo que quieras.

08/05/2025

08/05/2025

Las latinas amamantamos en todas partes

08/04/2025

The Importance of Education

Over the last week, I have gotten several emails from parents describing very avoidable but quite serious complications from a tongue tie release. I am entering my 13th year in treating these ties and I am still amazed that people who are doing this procedure. do not understand basic concepts of how to do it correctly. Many people come to my office and think that I am some sort of tongue tie Messiah, only to recognize that what I am doing is very simple, but has to follow very specific goals.

Over time, I have become increasingly less diplomatic when I have to interact with these providers to let them know what they have done. In almost every case, it is very clear that they have no formal training in the procedure. One of these complications was from an ENT with a pair of scissors. One was from a supposed tongue tie expert in his community who was a dentist using a laser. In each case, these problems occur because of a lack of basic understanding of surgical principles and of the underlying physiology of what the tongue is supposed to be doing. I am tired. I am tired of having to explain to parents why this occurred. I am even more tired that 13 years into this, people are making the same mistakes.

I do not care how experienced you think you are. For almost all of you, you have more to learn. How do I know that? Because I am still learning. This is not meant to be some advertisement for my course, but I cannot help but shake my head, knowing that what is in my course would've prevented both of these complications. These courses will not be around forever because of my personal goals to just be in my garden and tend to my crops. Seriously, take the course and learn.

https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0078-0031-6EE53EC166354A5CBFCAC265115ABCE5

08/03/2025

Breastfeeding abuelita

08/02/2025

Big Latch On 2025!

08/02/2025

08/01/2025

¡Hoy comienza la semana mundial de la !

Apoyemos a las madres de todo el mundo para que amamanten durante todo el tiempo que quieran.
🧸 Familiares y amigos que apoyen
🤱🏽Solidaridad en la vida pública
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https://www.paho.org/es/temas/lactancia-materna-alimentacion-complementaria