As more mothers are choosing to breastfeed, physicians need to be trained to
successfully support these mothers.
Not exact matches
The point here is that the formula companies know that as along as breastfeeding
mothers are
successfully marketed the convenience of supplementing, whether occasionally or exclusively, they won't fight for better maternity leave (the U.S. has one of the worst of industrialized countries), better employee lactation programs, health care coverage for lactation counselors and pumps, and for hospitals that score better than a «D» on breastfeeding
support.
When I chronicled our first grueling night of sleep training two weeks ago,
mothers who had
successfully used the method developed by Weissbluth, a sleep expert and professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, wrote and offered their
support.
When social or structural
support for breastfeeding is absent, this can create unnecessary barriers to
mothers breastfeeding
successfully.
Yet knowing those benefits isn't enough -
successfully breastfeeding a premature baby is easier said than done, and success starts with ensuring
mothers of premature babies are
supported in every way possible.
Our mission is to elevate the nursing
mother to a place in society where she receives all the necessary
support to
successfully nurse a child, where scientific evidence overrides marketing influences, and a woman does not fear breastfeeding in public.
The more that I listen to other women and families describe their experiences with breastfeeding, I realize that breastfeeding
successfully has much to do with how much
support a new
mother is given by her partner, family, friends, and extended community (like parenting groups, hospitals, etc.).
Australia has, for example,
successfully pioneered a
support system for separating
mothers and fathers that helps them early on with job problems, money issues, benefit difficulties, housing, relationship
support, health advice and parenting training.
Talking to your doctor, a lactation consultant, or other
mothers in a breastfeeding
support group may be all that you need to put your mind at ease and keep you going on the right track to establishing a healthy supply of breast milk and breastfeeding
successfully.
Sensitive conversations during pregnancy, skilled
support in the immediate post-birth period, ongoing guidance and social
support are all needed to enable
mothers to feel confident and breastfeed
successfully for as long as they wish.
Postpartum advantages are adding up as well: Research by Kennell and others suggests that doula -
supported mothers breastfeed more
successfully and suffer from less postpartum anxiety and depression than new moms without such
support.
With
support and encouragement,
mothers cope with many different stresses and still breastfeed
successfully.
While
successfully breastfeeding twins and higher order multiples can be straightforward, it can also be time consuming for the
mother, who is likely to need good
support at home to ensure she gets sufficient rest and adequate nutrition (Multiple Births Foundation 2011).
The article mentions breastfeeding problems on ten separate occasions, Not once is the fact mentioned that each year many
mothers breastfeed
successfully without problems, and many more are able to overcome breastfeeding difficulties with proper
support.
We believe that
support and encouragement during the childbearing years are vital for the success and wellbeing of the
mother in achieving a natural birth, being able to
successfully breastfeed, and in learning good parenting skills.
Family members, friends, and her other sources of social
support — including other
mothers — are important for her to
successfully reach her goals.
By providing meaningful resources to
support fathers actively leading their families in worship, discipleship and the home education process, encouraging and inspiring
mothers to
successfully get started and keep going throughout their homeschooling journey and ministering to the specific needs of our precious homeschooled children and young adults.
There was a consistency between the themes that emerged from both the
mothers and the fathers, with both believing that breastfeeding was a team effort and that father's
support was essential to the
mother being able to breastfeed
successfully.
The
mother had
successfully claimed that the child's father — to whom she was never married — should continue to have a
support obligation for the son they had together.