Every year, Black Breastfeeding Week proves how important it is to celebrate and uplift Black maternal health. My breastfeeding journey was not easy.
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.
Every year, Black Breastfeeding Week proves how important it is to celebrate and uplift Black maternal health. My breastfeeding journey was not easy. |
Breastmilk is the first food that we consume and is a critical part of a sustainable food system. |
"In contrast, research clearly demonstrates there are significant, ongoing health and psychological implications if infants are separated from their mothers. |
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"One key message in the 2020 infant recommendations: No amount of added sugar is OK for a baby's development. |
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett of Praeclarus Press and API Advisory Board Member, interviews Dr. Amy Brown via video chat on why supporting breastfeeding matters more than ever during COVID-19. |
The generosity during COVID-19 is incredible! Here are some more great resources, on breastfeeding and infant massage, that are available at no charge through the end of September! Enjoy and share them: |
“But in early experiments that I’ve conducted in the last week, I’m finding COVID-19-specific antibodies in the milk. |
La Leche League International shares a helpful guide to help us understand that breastfeeding protects baby when you or they are sick, and when their family is sick. |
"To explain the persistence of lower rates of breastfeeding among black mothers, we should look to systemic and historic factors rather than individual choice. |