Sentences with phrase «of women breastfeed»

There, 65 percent of women breastfeed exclusively for six months, with some continuing the practice up until their child is around the age of 2.

Oh sure, plenty of women breastfeed, but this mama is passionate about it.

And lots of women breastfeed for an extended period of time.

I've seen plently of women breastfeed in public and only two of them made a huge deal of it and then got offended when asked to cover up a little.

Why anyone would be offended or «disgusted» at the sight of a woman breastfeeding a child in public is beyond me.

From shopping malls, where there were specific seating areas for breastfeeding, to the huge posters displayed all over the main cities depicting all manner of women breastfeeding their babies.

Celebrity breastfeeding photos are increasingly common, a model breastfeeding her son recently graced the cover of Elle Magazine, and romantic pictures of women breastfeeding while looking like goddesses in some kind of an enchanted forest are rapidly becoming a thing.

Overall, about 96 percent of the women were breastfeeding right after delivery, and giving birth at a BFHI - accredited hospital did not seem to increase the number of women breastfeeding over the next few months.

When I see images of women breastfeeding, I still feel a tinge of jealousy and pain, but am also happy they are able to make it happen.

Created in 1991 by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Initiative was built around 10 steps designed to improve the odds of women breastfeeding their children.

Dasie's breast or «boob», which was inspired by news of Facebook taking down images of women breastfeeding

Those of us who don't will not be swayed by a picture of a woman breastfeeding her child in public.

When one pic made the rounds of a women breastfeeding, I clicked on the link with some trepidation as it could have been me.

«I came to this event because I always admired seeing photos of women breastfeeding and I was excited to finally be able to participate.

[8] The biologist and physician Linnaeus, the English doctor Cadogan, [9] Rousseau, and the midwife Anel le Rebours described in their writings the advantages and necessity of women breastfeeding their own children and discouraged the practice of wet nursing.

over a photo of a woman breastfeeding her son who, frankly, looks old enough to cut up his own piece of steak.

I have seen lots of women breastfeeding their babies and it always seemed so easy and peaceful.

Or do you perceive, or imagine others to perceive, the actual idea of a woman breastfeeding publicly to be offensive?

I find the people who do this most are the old - school crunchy moms — the ones who were nursing back when less than a quarter of women breastfed.

In that seminar, I was not fully convinced I could breastfeed and I was very disturbed by the photos they placed in the material of women breastfeeding.

And while I know that over half of Americans are disgusted by the sight of a woman breastfeeding, I would think that a pediatrician's office isn't one of those places where she would be met with that kind of attitude.

A total of 64 women were interviewed who had taken fluoxetine during a pregnancy between the 1989 and 1997; 26 of these women breastfed their infants and continued to take the medication, and 38 breastfed their infants but did not take the medication.

The percentage of women breastfeeding would still remain relatively high through the 1930s, however, when compared to the numbers just two decades later.31 Jacqueline Wolf, in her study of infant feeding in Chicago, found that despite the known dangers of using breast milk substitutes, by the mid-nineteenth century many women began weaning their babies at three months, even before cleaner cow's milk and more reliable proprietary foods were available.

Until the early twentieth century, however, infants who were exclusivelydry nursed or fed artificially usually failed to thrive, either because of inadequate nutrition or contaminated animal milk or water.6 Thus before industrialization the overwhelming majority of women breastfed their infants for a considerable length of time, and in Europe and the United States evidence suggests that through the seventeenth century women generally breastfed their infants beyond the second summer.

Support provided in a single visit or only in the antenatal period may not meet the needs of women breastfeeding more than one infant.

The Perfect Push kicked off World Breastfeeding Week by sharing real photographs of women breastfeeding.

More and more mothers are telling the nurses «no bottles» in the hospital, and you can't walk into a cafe or mall without seeing lots of women breastfeeding their babies.

I nevertheless have a negative — and natural — reaction to an image of a woman breastfeeding an older child.

The law clarifies that lewd conduct, lewd touching, immoral conduct, indecent conduct, and similar terms do not include the act of a woman breastfeeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be.

With less than half of women breastfeeding at the six month mark we have to assume that many women believe they don't make enough breast milk.

In 1999, two - thirds of women breastfed their newborns in the hospital, the highest rate since the figure was first recorded in 1965, according to the Ross Products Division of Abbott Laboratories, the infant formula manufacturer that has been the nation's primary source of breastfeeding rates for decades.

These recommendations were put in place with a public health motive in mind: to increase the number of women breastfeeding in the United States.

Three ground - breaking pieces of research funded by the Gates Foundation highlight the practical, emotional and cultural barriers that still stand in the way of women breastfeeding and underline the importance of breastfeeding in improving health, saving lives and reducing costs in every country in the world, rich or poor.

Similar trends were found for the number of women breastfeeding for at least six months (45.1 percent, 43.2 percent, and 26.6 percent, respectively) and one year (24 percent, 21.4 percent, and 11.7 percent, respectively).

Every time I hear about another case of a woman breastfeeding her baby in a restaurant, department store or on a plane who is asked to cover up, head to the bathroom or leave altogether, I wonder why in 2014 we remain so incredibly uncomfortable with breastfeeding in public.

The Danish context means that a high proportion of women breastfed, but it also means that a small proportion (< 2 %) of women did not breastfeed at all.

We've all seen portraits of women breastfeeding, but Ruby's ongoing series captures working women in uniform — be it a doctor, showgirl, or whole group of military moms — as they take a moment to breastfeed their young children.

Hence, Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg has partnered with Getty Images to update stock photography and now, Tara Ruby, a photographer in El Paso, Texas, is making waves with her stunning portraits of women breastfeeding — with a twist.

The drawings range from ballpoint studies of exhibition spaces to delicate sketches of a woman breastfeeding, or the folds in a child's socks.

How about a campaign to replace every racist image on Facebook with a picture of a woman breastfeeding?

Not exact matches

The ultimate survival guide for working, breastfeeding women, leaves 88 percent of all moms with no access to paid maternity leave.

[Hayes is] the type of woman who feeds into the hysteria that openly breastfeeding is a «bad» thing.

For the most part, photos of female nipples are also banned from Instagram, with the exception of post-mastectomy scarring, women breastfeeding and photos of paintings and sculptures.

«A Georgia woman named Nirvana Jenette claims she was kicked out of church for breastfeeding, the pastor ordering her to nurse the baby in the bathroom and calling her behavior «lewd,» comparing her to a stripper...»

If a woman is breastfeeding a child when its old enough to eat food, there is a whole other set of problems at play.

The rest of the world's women shouldn't have to hide their breastfeeding from you just because you don't like it.

I don't want to shock you, but women of all races breastfeed.

Jessica Shortall's TED talk on parental leave brought me to tears, as she recounted the stories of women who drained their savings to stay home for 12 weeks, of premature babies sent to daycare on respirators, of mothers going back to work while bleeding, exhausted, and sore from breastfeeding.

Reputable, large - scale studies demonstrate that natural - duration breastfeeding suppresses a return to fertility for an average of 14 months post-partum for most first - world women.

One of the first things that I learnt as a trainee breastfeeding counsellor was never to judge a woman's mothering experience on first impressions.