Sentences with phrase «breastfeed their children do»

Choosing not to breastfeed a child does increase the child's risk of sickness.

Instead, the reason breastfed children do better is because they are more likely to grow up in an environment that supports cognitive development.

Studies show that breastfed children don't get sick as often as formula - fed children — and that means fewer upper respiratory, middle ear, and gastrointestinal infections.

Other breastfeeding children don't mind at all.

Not exact matches

But I do know that my grandfather once told me that when he was growing up around the 20s and 30s, it was natural for mothers to breastfeed their children in church.

Breastfeeding is the best a mother can do for her child.

Meanwhile, seven pregnancies, 10 years of breastfeeding and four children later, Pope Francis's comment that we don't have to «be like rabbits» leaves me feeling wistful.

But hey knowing how Wenger breastfeeds his children i am not surprised that they do nt get it what it is like to be under pressure and to actually perform to their best

Breastfeeding mothers don't have any obligation to allow you to give them space, they are only trying to feed and nurture their child so if you have a problem with it turn your head and look away.

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...)

I bet you have had to give in hundreds of times in completely different areas of life... My 2 - year - old breastfed child is very well - behaved and I do not give in whenever he wants anything... I let him have a cuddle and be breastfed not because he wants it but because he needs it...

It is a two way street, but only for those that deserve the same respect they give a breastfeeding mom for the great thing she is doing for her child.

Further more, those I know who breastfed their children are significantly more healthy and don't get sick near as often as those who have formula fed their babies.

Often women with low supply are let down by the breastfeeding community because they rely on the idea that if your child does not have enough milk it is because you are not working hard enough.

And as ridiculous as you may find it, I do demand the right to expose my breast wherever and whenever to breastfeed my child / ren.

That said, I am of the mind that breastfeeding, caring for one's own child and other matters of family and home are for the most part the responsibility of individual families and do not really require all this «support» many call for.

For me, none of us children were breastfed, I didn't even think i would do it, it didn't seem like something i wanted to do, but I am so thankful of the experience.

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.

If a well - meaning friend or relative wanted to buy my child a doll and knew that we did not formula - feed, I'd like to think she'd have the option of buying a breastfeeding doll like Bebé Glotón.

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.

The purpose of breastfeeding is to provide your baby with nutrients, if your child can eat regular food, they no longer need those nutrients so why are you still doing it?

I can proudly say that my little one is still breastfeeding at 33 months old and we plan to do child - led weaning!

unless you drink enough to kill yourself, drinking while breastfeeding does not affect the baby... it may affect your head the next morning but the child will be fine...

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!)

So, you breastfed all of them exclusively for 1 year (yes, many doctors argue that you should not give any solids for the entire first year if life), only fed organic foods after you let them start feeding themselves at 1 year, never offered baby cereals, don't put anything in plastic, wore your baby every minute of every day, co-slept or didn't co-sleep, depending on who you asked, don't allow your children to sleep on commercially produced mattresses, don't use any Johnson's products, etc. etc. etc.?

Does this image help normalize breastfeeding or promote the commodification of mother - child moments?

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 just wanted to chime in here, too... not to judge but to pass on information in case one day you did want to attempt to breastfeed another child.

Incidentally, I breastfed for a little over a year, but around 9 months supplemented with formula too — I am a staunch supporter of moms doing what works for them and their child.

So now in Holland you are being told by the health - workers you do a poor job giving your child 6 months exclusive breastfeeding, because you would risk food allergies.

My opinion is that breastfeeding does not guarantee a healthier child.

And to add to that, when a woman has tried her damndest to breastfeed, and it just did not work out, please be sure and tell her that she is NOT a bad mother and her child WILL be just fine and not damaged for life.

It is also not my place (or anyone else's place) to tell a breastfeeding mother to «do that somewhere else» when she is feeding her child in public.

I once said to a friend that I don't care how others choose to feed their children (breastfeeding / formula, offering solids after 6 months / early introduction).

Unfortunately, while for some parents pacifiers are a godsend, some moms find that their children, especially those that are breastfed, want nothing to do with them.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I did what every good soon - to - be-parent is expected to do, I signed up for a birthing and breastfeeding class.

If the child is not neglected and growing and healthy (which the vast majority of breastfed and formula fed children are), why do you care?

But... but... but... I don't want other women to give up on breastfeeding because they believe something to be true that really isn't true and I don't want you to be robbed of the opportunity to nurse your future children (if you want to) because you believe something that really isn't true.

I wonder, too, what the long term benefits are for children whose mothers did make that sacrifice (when able) and how it impacts society on a much grander scale than cost of formula vs. cost of breastfeeding.

I wouldn't leave that comment because I applaud her commitment to breastfed for those 6 weeks and if I tell her that she's a bad parent, what incentive does she have to consider breastfeeding again with another child or encouraging a friend or relative to breastfeed.

And it's pretty hard not to form a strong connection and get to know your child really well when you do breastfeed, spend lots of time with them, wear or carry them everywhere you go, are available to them all night, use positive discipline and practice the other principles of attachment parenting.

If you don't breastfeed, following a strict diet is not going to affect your child's health through his or her nutrition, obviously, but while breastfeeding, it is both your own well - being and that of your baby to take into account.

Don't get me wrong, breastfeeding is such a special experience and it has been a beautiful way for me to bond with my children.

For some nursing dyads, this is the appropriate path and they go on and do well with breastfeeding and other areas of normal child development.

Please do note though that the decision of WHEN to actually stop breastfeeding your baby is ultimately up to both mother and child.

You do not have to breastfeed your child every second that they ask for it.

But what we often don't realize is that all the time that we spent just BEING with our child breastfeeding, was also time spent cuddling our child.

This is particularly infuriating to me as most mothers breastfeeding their children in public do so with complete discretion and with an absolute minimum of noise or fuss.

Breastfeeding mothers feed their child while taking care of their other children or while they're working and doing any other of a million necessary tasks.

However, if you need to stop breastfeeding earlier, there does not need to be harm to your child.