LifeCircle Consulting

LifeCircle Consulting

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Publications

by Year

Selected publications....

2019

Good, C. Coping with Perinatal Stress and Depression. Lynnwood, WA: LifeCircle Counseling and Consulting, LLC 2019.
Good, C. Mental Health Care for Postpartum Depression During Lactation. Lynnwood, WA: LifeCircle Counseling and Consulting, LLC 2019.

2016

Good Mojab, C. Interview. Perinatal Support Washington Newsletter. February 24, 2016.
Good Mojab, C. The Lactation Equity Action Committee: A Brief History and ILCA's Role. International Lactation Consultant Association. January 5, 2016.

2015

Good Mojab, C. Book Review: “A Breastfeeding-Friendly Approach to Postpartum Depression: A Resource Guide for Health Care Providers.” Science & Sensibility. May 28, 2015.
Good Mojab, C. and Healy, E. Undoing institutional racism in perinatal support organizations: First steps for eliminating racial inequity in breastfeeding support. In P. Hall Smith and M. Labbok (Eds.) It Takes a Village: The Role of the Greater Community in Inspiring and Empowering Women to Breastfeed. Amarillo, TX: Praeclarus Press 2015.
Good Mojab, C. Book Review – Transformed by Postpartum Depression: Women’s Stories of Trauma and Growth – Part Three. Science & Sensibility. March 17, 2015.
Good Mojab, C. Book Review – Transformed by Postpartum Depression: Women’s Stories of Trauma and Growth – Part Two. Science & Sensibility. March 12, 2015.
Good Mojab, C. Book review – Transformed by Postpartum Depression: Women’s Stories of Trauma and Growth, Part One. Science & Sensibility. March 10, 2015.
Good Mojab, C. Pandora’s Box is already open: Answering the ongoing call to dismantle institutional oppression in the field of breastfeeding. J Hum Lact. 2015; 31(1): 32-35.

2014

2014 Lactation Summit Design Team. Summary Report of the 2014 Lactation Summit: Addressing Inequities within the Lactation Profession. Morrisville, NC: ILCA 2014.
Good Mojab, C. When Birth is Traumatic. Revised. Lynnwood, WA: LifeCircle Counseling and Consulting, LLC 2014.
Good Mojab, C. Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death: Understanding Grief and Trauma. Revised. Lynnwood, WA: LifeCircle Counseling and Consulting, LLC 2014.
Good Mojab, C. What Bereaved Parents Need from Medical Professionals. Brief Encounters 2014; 20(3): 1,3.

2009

Good Mojab, C. The impact of traumatic childbirth on health through the undermining of breastfeeding. In V. Banyard, V. Edwards, and K. Kendall-Tackett (Eds.) Trauma and Physical Health: Understanding the Effects of Extreme Stress and of Psychological Harm. New York: Routledge 2009.

2008

Good Mojab, C. An American IBCLC's observations on breastfeeding in Iran. J Human Lactation 2008; 24(1):13.

2007

Good Mojab, C. Congenital torticollis in the nursling. J Human Lactation 2007; 23(1):12.

2006

Good Mojab, C. Regarding the emerging field of lactational psychology. J Hum Lact 2006;22(1): 13-4.

2003

Good Mojab, C. Sunlight deficiency: Helping breastfeeding mothers find the facts. Leaven 2003; 39(4): 75-79.
Good Mojab, C. Sunlight deficiency: A review of the literature. Mothering 2003; 117: 52-55,57-63.

2002

Good Mojab, C. Congenital disorders in the nursling. Unit 5. Lactation Consultant Series II. Schaumburg, IL: La Leche League International 2002.
Good Mojab, C. Sunlight deficiency and breastfeeding. Breastfeeding Abstracts 2002; 22(1): 3-4.

2001

Good Mojab, C. Connecting. Mothering magazine. www.mothering.com. September 19, 2001.

1999

Good Mojab, C. Congenital disorders: Implications for breastfeeding. Leaven 1999; 35(6): 123-28.

Excerpts

"Stress is a part of life. Stressors can vary in magnitude from daily hassles to traumatic events. Too much stress can harm our well-being. Chronic stress can contribute to the development of depression—a treatable illness with emotional, mental, physical, and social consequences. Depression is common during pregnancy and postpartum, reflecting the major life changes, role conflicts, hard work, and inadequate support with which many parents cope."

Cynthia Good Mojab (Coping with Perinatal Stress and Depression, 2015)

"The loss of a baby during pregnancy, during birth, or after birth can be an indescribably painful and devastating experience. In the beginning, parents may feel a sense of disbelief, numbness, and shock. They may feel like their dreams for the future have been cruelly wrenched from them. They may experience guilt and ask unanswerable questions: Why my baby? Why me? Their arms and hearts may ache with emptiness. The reactions of friends and family, co-workers and strangers may reflect ignorant insensitivity or the deepest compassion. Unfortunately, many societies do not fully recognize pregnancy loss and infant death as real losses, often leaving bereaved parents feeling invalidated and alone in their grief. Parents may feel great pressure to act as though they have “moved on” when they are actually still grieving and they have been changed forever by the living and the dying of their baby. They may quickly realize that few people are able to listen to them and to support them in their grief. Learning about the normalcy and healthiness of grief can be a critical step in finding ways to grieve well."

Cynthia Good Mojab (Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death: Understanding Grief and Trauma, 2014)

"The diversity of our world is staggering. Sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, class, language, race, color, culture, ethnicity, nationality, marital status, geography, immigration, generation, religion, ability, size, and age are among the characteristics that make people similar to and different from each other. Systems of oppression and its concomitant, unearned privilege, corrupt these characteristics into fictitious markers of worth that determine the degree of access to power and opportunities afforded to individuals and their communities. Systems of privilege/oppression are a global and local reality.1 They vary in their exact nature from one place and time to another and are the cause of social inequities of all kinds, including in the field of breastfeeding."

Cynthia Good Mojab (Pandora’s Box Is Already Open: Answering the Ongoing Call to Dismantle Institutional Oppression in the Field of Breastfeeding, 2015)

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