The Travis County jail is one of four nationwide — and the only in Texas, USA — to allow new moms to breastfeed in custody.
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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When a brand is going to do what brands do — try to sell you a product — it’s terrific when the company attempts to do it in a way that’s at least smart and sensitive to its customers. |
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New evidence has emerged on the role that breastfeeding could have in preventing diabetes. Early results from a Canadian study suggest that breastfeeding reduces the risk of mothers and their offspring developing the condition. |
Amy Anderson, a mother from Maine, USA, opens up about her son's death, healing through continued lactation and working with employers about pumping at work to donate breastmilk. |
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"The study authors said women who breast-fed with "higher intensity and longer duration of lactation," were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes two years later. |
"This is about milk leaks and ratty hair." |
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"A new book argues that the science of breastfeeding is ‘very disappointing.’ Researchers in the field beg to differ." |
"Does breastfeeding save US lives? This graph shows that exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months is inversely correlated with deaths from SIDS, NEC, and lower respiratory tract infection. |
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"Less than half of women who return to their jobs after giving birth are provided adequate time and space at their workplaces to pump breast milk, despite requirements by the 2010 Read more |
"Thus, extrapolating from trajectory data to absolute levels of IQ and concluding that breastfeeding has no impact on IQ is just plain wrong (let alone ignoring the wealth of articles in literature that support the conclusion that breastfeeding do Read more |
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