Blog — Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP

Breastfeeding Equality for a Healthier World

Relief From Panic Attacks...

Amidst the Stress, Worry, Uncertainty, and Loss

How Hypnotherapy Helps Decrease Anxiety

Hypnotherapy And The Immune System

Night Weaning (most popular topic)

* “Sleep, Changing Patterns in the Family Bed” has long been Dr. Jay’s most popular post–and for good reason. We decided to kick off 2015 with this great article, offering comprehensive tips on changing patterns in the family bed. Here’s to a happy and restful New Year.

Hypnotherapy For Sleep

Whether it's trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or both, sleep issues cause problems for so many people. The good news is that hypnotherapy can be highly effective in improving sleep, allowing you to fall asleep quicker and stay asleep throughout the night! Sleeping, just like exercising, meditating, or anything else you do may regularly, is a habit. As we talked about in a previous blog (see Hypnotherapy for Habit Modification), hypnotherapy can modify existing habits and replace old, negative habits with new, positive ones. Difficulty with sleep can be caused by many different things, but most often trouble sleeping is linked to an overactive mind. Anxiety, worries, stress, or even looking forward to something can contribute to sleep issues.

Nursing and Working: My Secrets

When I found out I was pregnant with my first child I was so very excited. I signed up for all the classes that the hospital offered.

Lactation Risk Categories

There are times when a nursing mom needs to take certain medications.

World Breastfeeding Week Brings the Biased Pseudoscientists Out in Droves

World Breastfeeding Week begins now. Expect a flood of pseudoscientific articles about vitamin K and other things with a back door message about the “dangers of exclusive breastfeeding.” These writers are not only not scientists, they are ignorant about breastfeeding, infant nutrition, vitamin K options and infant nutrition in general.