Feed with Love and Respect

Breastfeeding is the optimal way to satisfy an infant's nutritional and emotional needs. "Bottle Nursing" adapts breastfeeding behaviors to bottle-feeding to help initiate a secure attachment. Follow the feeding cues for both infants and children, encouraging them to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. Offer healthy food choices and model healthy eating behavior.

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La Leche League reading on Goodreads "The LLL USA list is called LLL USA Breastfeeding S Read more	Results Of The COVID Mothers Study Study led by Melissa Bartick published in Breastfeeding Medicine on Feb 10, 2021 on the effects of maternity care practices related to COVID-19 on infant and maternal outcomes.
Rooming-In, Breastfeeding Appear Safe for New Moms With COVID-19 "Based on our results, the risk of mother-to-infant transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during rooming-in seems to" be unlikely," Ronchi's group wrote, noting that findings were observed in infected mothers who were not severely affected by COVID-19, and w Read more	December 2020 issue of "Breastfeeding Today" from La Leche League International December 2020 issue of "Breastfeeding Today" from La Leche League International The Legacy of Persistence Softening into Motherhood Rooting Around: How a Nation Found Its Way Back to Breastfeeding
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