In this episode, we answer your questions! You asked us a variety of questions, including "are tongues ties on the rise?" and "what actually bursts in labour, and is it really water?" We also discuss advanced maternal age and induction of labour; and how to get enough clinical hours to become an IBCLC. There were so many questions this is only part one... 

Links:

FROSTTIE trial https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/frosttie/clinicians

Mills N, Pransky SM, Geddes DT, Mirjalili SA. What is a tongue tie? Defining the anatomy of the in‐situ lingual frenulum. Clinical Anatomy. 2019 Sep;32(6):749-61. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ca.23343 

Bode L. Human milk oligosaccharides: every baby needs a sugar mama. Glycobiology. 2012 Sep 1;22(9):1147-62. https://academic.oup.com/glycob/article/22/9/1147/1988076

Bruce German https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/breast-milk-reveals-clues-health 

Dr. Rachel Reed https://rachel-reed.website/links/

Books:

Dr. Rachel Reed. Why Induction Matters. https://rachel-reed.website/books/

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