While experts agree that breast milk is the best thing to feed your baby, check out our myths and facts
about breastfeeding for more information on the benefits that are supported by science, and those that need more research to confirm one way or the other.
Let's talk
about breastfeeding for a moment.
World Breastfeeding Week In August 2013, I wrote a post
about breastfeeding for the site Mommifried.
Prepared Presentations — A multidisciplinary group of physicians at the University of New Mexico have prepared presentations
about breastfeeding for you to use when lecturing.
Here are 8 responses to questions
about breastfeeding for the next time you aren't sure what to say.
Most new moms are a little nervous
about breastfeeding for the first time, it isn't easy.
NCT have prepared this fact sheet for women who are thinking
about breastfeeding for longer than six months and who would like information to help them decide how long to continue.
SUNNY GAULT: Alright welcome back we are continuing our discussion
about breastfeeding for one year and how to actually make it happen.
It's so necessary when you hear a sea of negative, everything
about breastfeeding for us to just to stop and say «oh that was so awesome» you know it was so necessary.
«In the UK these barriers include the difficulty some women encounter when breastfeeding in public, widespread misleading marketing that formula is equivalent to breastfeeding, a lack of high quality services to prevent and treat any problems if they arise, a lack of community support, a lack of education
about breastfeeding for young children, and lack of support for women to breastfeed in the workplace.
A dollar - shaped notepad and coin - shaped magnet (both featuring the phrase «Breastfeeding Saves Dollars and Makes Sense») will be a fun, pun - filled, lighthearted way to get our message noticed, and also, importantly, to help shape the discussion
about breastfeeding for the incoming Congress.»
We hypothesized that a series of interactive educational interventions
about breastfeeding for pediatric residents would result in an increase in knowledge about breastfeeding and lactation problems and increased confidence when counseling breastfeeding women.
That proportion fell over time, but the majority of women continued to have reservations
about breastfeeding for months after their baby's birth, researchers report Monday in Pediatrics.
I don't talk or blog
about breastfeeding for exactly some of the reasons you mentioned.
• Education and support
about breastfeeding for fathers improve breastfeeding rates (Maycock et al, 2013)
Not exact matches
This would be been a fabulous opportunity
for a company like Two Doulas, who provide perinatal, birth and postnatal support to talk
about the 5 biggest challenges that new moms face when
breastfeeding.
I've written often
about how much
breastfeeding transformed me, spiritually, but this was my reference book
for all things
breastfeeding.
I have worn out my copies of The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth (Sears Parenting Library) and The
Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know
About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning, but this one was my Bible
for my first baby.
You know that I write and talk a lot
about breastfeeding and that I am passionate
about the experience —
for babies and
for mothers.
For a few years now, I have been passionate about helping mamas and mamas - to - be, ensuring they are getting the education and support they need while pregnant, breastfeeding, or prepping for pregnan
For a few years now, I have been passionate
about helping mamas and mamas - to - be, ensuring they are getting the education and support they need while pregnant,
breastfeeding, or prepping
for pregnan
for pregnancy.
If you need advice
about nutrition whilst you are pregnant or
breastfeeding, please ask your doctor
for a referral to a registered dietitian.
Just recently I read an article Dr mercola wrote
about ketosis but he advised against doing this diet while
breastfeeding saying women need oxaloacetate, a compound essential
for creating lactose in breastmilk, which is essential
for baby's growth.
Please go here
for more information
about breastfeeding and plant - based nutrition.
When it comes to deciding whether or not a person should
breastfeed or not, if they're unsure
about their options, the best person to go to
for advice would be a licensed nurse midwife, though most levels of healthcare
for women should be able to offer suggestions
for the best path
for an expecting mother to follow.
For more information
about each of these suggestions, visit Ask Dr. Sears: Extended
Breastfeeding — Handling the Criticism.
What with HiPP sending formula samples I didn't ask
for, and Google kindly displaying formula adverts alongside e-mails and web pages
about breastfeeding (not Google's fault, mind you; this is all down to the individual companies choosing which -LSB-...]
Here is the link to the promo
for Baby Week where I talk
about extended
breastfeeding (Radical Parenting is the 3rd show):
-LCB- And while it's totally a personal decision, and I have NO interest in «debating» the issue, I do want to pass on an informative little note
about breastfeeding and alcohol
for those of you who have shared with me your concern. -RCB-
Don't worry, hubby will tell MIL to MYOB if she says anything
about us
breastfeeding exclusively
for the first 6 months at least (she once tried to put egg in our oldest daughter's mouth when she was only 3 months old!
So I just don't get the «too much pressure to
breastfeed» when all around me are images of bottles, ads
for formula telling me a happy feeding makes a happy mom, bottlefeeding moms, moms and doctors and nurses telling new moms that formula is «just as good» and «not to feel guilty», women getting «the look»
for nursing in public, or feeling weird
about doing it (I sure did)-- to me, any pressure out there is NOT to
breastfeed, or do it as little as possible (not if it's not immediately easy or you don't love every minute, not past 6 mos, not in public, not around male relatives and friends, not around children, not if you ever want to go out alone sometime...)
Exploring parenting philosophies, building a strong relationship between expectant parents, educating yourself
about breastfeeding and learning
about infant and child development are all a part of API's Prepare
for Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting Principle.
Get
breastfeeding help, learn
about breastfeeding and the law, find resources
for health care providers and more.
Just putting my own experience in — my son lost interest in
breastfeeding at
about 14 months, my daughter still woke
for a night feed on occaision till she was a little over 4.
From the outside looking in, this is a white, middle - class movement trying to educate other populations
about what is good
for them while ignoring the structural inequalities that make
breastfeeding a pipe dream or a total impossibility
for less privileged families.
When I was preparing
for my daughter Ava's birth, there were a lot of uncertainties
about what motherhood would have in store
for me, but there was one thing I knew
for certain — I would
breastfeed.
I'm not worried
about tandem
breastfeeding, I'm all
for it.
All the messages
about what one «ought» to do
for their children, be it
breastfeeding, staying at home, enrolling in the optimal preschool, attachment parenting, whatever, are typically only available to people with a certain amount of social capital.
These days, the more I read
about the benefits of breast milk, the more convinced I am that it can only be good
for the baby, and that there are clear benefits to longer term
breastfeeding.
One of Ava's books
about nursing (Breastmilk Makes My Tummy Yummy) contains a picture of a mom nursing a toddler and a baby and states: «Two can
breastfeed without fuss, there is room
for both of us.»
It's interesting you wrote
about this as I am in the process of writing «my
breastfeeding journey»
for my blog in the near future.
I've you're
about to
breastfeed for the first time, there are definitely some products that can make the journey easier.
My mother
breastfed me
for a year and says I was so distraught when she stopped; I even remember feeling sad
about this as a very young child!
What
about for women who, unfortunately, aren't able to
breastfeed
A family member who had not been successful
breastfeeding her first child came to me and asked
for some advice
about how to do better with her next one.
I know
for a fact that I did everything I possibly could, and after seven months, I still can't talk
about not being able to
breastfeed without tears.
I think that your friend makes a legitimate point
about the commodification of the women's bodies, of mothering moments, but as a
breastfeeding mom, I so hunger
for the normalization of this process that I'm totally willing to overlook that.
Talk to the
breastfeeding expert
about this, and get it going in a week or so (cool bonding time
for dad too).
Because I'd love to help someone in any small way possible, here's another post I wrote a year or so ago
about how hard
breastfeeding was
for me, but why I stuck with it: http://danigirl.ca/blog/2007/10/10/the-breast-fest/
But I find «mourning»
for or with or
about someone
about it to be exactly opposite of «not judging» in the event they don't
breastfeed.
I want to go back to the remark made in the study
about the economic consequences of
breastfeeding for women.