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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World Breastfeeding Week 2017 The theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2017 is "Sustaining Breastfeeding Together." Learn more on API's blog, APtly Said.	Relationship Between the American Academy of Pediatrics and Infant Formula Companies "Over the course of the next several decades, for a variety of reasons, formula became seen as modern and scientific and breastfeeding as old-fashioned.
Parental leave would cause a boom in breastfeeding "Only 12 percent of U.S. firms offer paid maternity leave, while a national parental leave policy would likely require businesses to give new mothers six weeks of paid time off.	The National Scandal of Newborn Deaths, and Why Support for Breastfeeding Moms Matters "...some of the recent stories in the news and articles spreading through social media appear to paint quite the opposite picture about breastfeeding—that somehow breastfeeding is potentially dangerous to babies and that the “pressure to breastfee Read more
CDC Backs Breast-Feeding: A widely shared story that U.S. health officials are recommending a delay in breast-feeding to improve "CHICAGO (AP) — A widely shared story that U.S. health officials are recommending a delay in breast-feeding to improve vaccine effectiveness is false.	Organized Support Helps Keep Women Breastfeeding "All forms of extra organised support analysed together showed an increase in the length of time women continued to breastfeed, either with or without introducing any other types of liquids or foods, the authors wrote."
Support programs help moms extend breastfeeding time "Breastfeeding is really important," said lead author Alison McFadden, who directs the Mother and Infant Research Unit at the University of Dundee in the UK.	For babies, breastfeeding is still best, even if it doesn't make them smarter (though it might) "In a commentary that accompanies the study, Dr. Lydia Furman of Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital suggested that this won’t be the last word on breastfeeding and brain growth.
What’s really keeping women from breast-feeding? The answers may surprise you. "We use breast-feeding to help change that narrative, and say ‘this is our commitment to the health and nutrition of our children.’ Kimberly Seals Allers' book “The Big Letdown."	Joint Statement from WABA & LLLI in celebration of World Health Day "Mother support groups, including La Leche League International, provide role models and accurate information for both normal breastfeeding as well as problem-solving.