Sentences with phrase «about breastfeeding your child»

The interview started off great, until you insulted her about breastfeeding her children, saying it makes you uncomfortable and should be done under a blanket or in the car!

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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.

I breastfeed until the child is about 2, but not in public.

To the best of our ability, their father and I raised our children to see both parents working in the home and without as normal, and when they grew up, our daughters, our only children, had no second thoughts about giving time to their careers, nor to the advantages of breastfeeding and the importance of providing healthy, whole foods to their families.

I feel like health professionals» lack of knowledge about breastfeeding, etc. compromised the care of my child each time.

Home to discussions about breastfeeding basics, feeding on cue, extended breastfeeding, comfort nursing, bottle nursing, introducing solids, gentle weaning, coping with toddler pickiness, creating healthy eating habits in older children and more.

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.

Despite attending La Leche League meetings while pregnant and reading books about breastfeeding I didn't know that lactation consultants did weighed feeds or that if my child was diagnosed with failure to thrive it was time to see one.

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.

That's in large part what my blogging has been about all of these years — addressing topics like home birth, circumcision, cosleeping, vaccinations, child - led weaning (breastfeeding), babywearing, home schooling, unschooling and more.

The magazine and this proponents» advice is framed in such a way to alarm parents into unfounded fears about their children being poor sleepers if they respond in loving ways such as rocking their child, breastfeeding, or lying down with the child.

I told her about another friend who gave up breastfeeding her 1st child at 3 weeks, due to bad medical advice, about an abcess.

Now we're finally home and this last few nights my frustration level with all this breastfeeding stuff has been escalating significantly, to the point that I dread the moment my wife will feed our child and when the feeds take over an hour at 11 pm and we have to wake up again in about 1.5 to 2 hours my frustration becomes more like rage against both the baby and my wife.

What I don't respect is the potential assumption (from her, or from others) that me breastfeeding my child / ren is about exhibitionism, seduction (I wish!)

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!

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 also know many stay - at - home moms who formula fed and left the workplace to stay with their children - so the «cons» against breastfeeding are «cons about having children» but not cons against breastfeeding.

Because my mission here is to inspire, motivate, and help families travel with babies, toddlers, and young children, I was delighted when Bravado Designs got in touch so we could talk about breastfeeding and travel.

I have a few qualms about his hunch that «The key difference is likely to come down to the demands of breastfeeding following the birth of a child — an activity that's energy - intensive, time - consuming, and quite difficult to integrate with paid work, at least as work is currently structured» — because that assumes that all women who want a high status - high income partner plan to have children.

I'd sit on message boards for hours reading what everyone was saying about breastfeeding, learning about what kind of cribs I should get, and discovering what I should be teaching my children at different stages.

Katherine Dettwyler, an associate professor of anthropology and nutrition at Texas A&M University, conducted a study in the late 1990s on 1,280 children whose parents self - reported information about their breastfeeding practices.

Women who live in these communities are not questioned about «still» breastfeeding their children.

Breastfeeding is not just about the child and their needs and wants.

Like many women in their first pregnancy, I started to read lots about what would be best for my child, and I was astonished how often I came across breastfeeding.

You probably already know something about your baby's temperature preferences, but since you've presumably been only breastfeeding up until this point, you may be unaware of whether or not your child has any temperature - related pickiness in terms of his or her food.

The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning

There are many decisions a pregnant woman makes about the birth of her child, yet it is the hospital she chooses that can directly impact her breastfeeding relationship.

There's something about a breastfeeding mother and child that stirs deep and wistful memories of days gone by and becomes a visible role model for other mothers wondering if it is «okay» to do that in public.

I think parents who do their research in general about raising children are probably more likely to breastfeed (even if they don't necessarily follow Babywise).

«We were surprised by the large number of concerns mothers had, and we were very concerned by how particular concerns were strongly related to giving up with breastfeeding» - such as worries about babies not getting enough nutrition, said Laurie A. Nommsen - Rivers, the study's senior author, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Now that I think about it, I have only found one peds doc who was an expert on breastfeeding and I think that was only b / c she was, herself, a waterbirth and breastfeeding advocate, having had waterbirths and nursed each of her children past the age of one (not an easy task when you're an Army doctor and deployable).

The authors of The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning say women who have not breastfed are four times more likely to develop osteoporosis later in life.

I've worked really hard not to judge or shame my friends who choose to — or have to — formula feed their children, despite my own strong feelings about breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding isn't so much about the mother, either, as about a mother meeting the needs of her child.

The only two people that should be concerned about when to stop breastfeeding is the mother and the child.

The decision about when to wean off your child from breastfeeding is very personal, and you should take into account your own commitments.

To recognize and celebrate everything that breastfeeding and pumping moms do for their children, Sarah Wells reached out to me about the Epic World Breastfeeding Giveaway that sbreastfeeding and pumping moms do for their children, Sarah Wells reached out to me about the Epic World Breastfeeding Giveaway that sBreastfeeding Giveaway that she's hosting.

Instead of allowing myself to be a spectacle to strangers, I will teach my three sons about the proper function of breasts and how to someday support the mothers of their children when they breastfeed.

How and if you share breastfeeding is a very personal choice, which depends on the feelings and wishes of both partners, and negotiating this may require sensitive communication as you explore your feelings about the future bond with your expected child.

Those steps include informing women about the benefits of breastfeeding, helping women breastfeed within the hour after delivery, and allowing new mothers to stay in the same room as their child - also known as rooming in.

One of the nicest things about breastfeeding older children is that they are able to verbalise their joy of breastfeeding to you.

Although many have quit breastfeeding before their children reach the one or two year recommended milestones, for the few women who do continue to breastfeed their babies into toddlerhood it can be very difficult to make the decision about when to wean.

oh please about breastmilk someone i know breastfeeds and the child is sick all the time I don't know how true this fact holds I think it has a lot to do with saving money and nothing about nutrition or antibodies.

Many women have worried about breastfeeding and this book can help allay their fears and build their confidence in this natural process while nurturing their baby and child.

So I had a lot of time to think about exactly the type of mother I would be (extended breastfeeding, babywearing, etc) and the type of baby my child would be once I finally was blessed with one (a good baby, a good sleeper, an early milestone hitter).

As a registered nurse and midwife, homebirthed mother of three, breastfeeding advocate, In making decisions about how to raise my children I read widely, asked advice from a range of professionals, some being medical doctors some being highly trained, skilled midwives.

I know they are about nutrition and they were providing me the foods which would ideally help provide the best breastfeeding relationship with my child, but I think more women would do it if they could afford some of these tools which help.

Other people have their own opinions about how long a child should breastfeed (or if children should breastfeed at all).

You may already know about the many ways that children and even mothers benefit from breastfeeding.