This is quite the time to be a new breastfeeding mom. Support for breastfeeding has never been more abundantly available, especially when it comes to social media forms of it.
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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Thomas Hale, professor of pediatrics and founding director of the InfantRisk Center at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo, hopes the Food and Drug Administration will put information on nursing safety on the package inserts i Read more |
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The vast majority of the nation’s most reputable hospitals are blocking infant formula manufacturers from marketing their formula products, according to Public Citizen and Ban the Bags research. |
Skin-to-skin contact between mother and infant in the delivery room is associated with an increased likelihood for exclusive breastfeeding. When combined with a mother's intent to breastfeed, the likelihood was even greater. |
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"After 18 months of uneventfully nursing my daughter Elle as we go about our daily lives, I’d never received so much as a dirty look from anyone, anywhere. It’s not shocking. |
[VIDEO] If you are a breastfeeding mom and need some encouragement, or if you just need to know you are not alone in your breastfeeding journey, or if you are pregnant and worried about breastfeeding, even if you are breastfeeding, have breastfed, Read more |
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Scientists have discovered that important "good" bacteria arrive in babies' digestive systems from their mother's gut via breast milk. |
Breastfeeding longer is associated with better receptive language at 3 years of age and verbal and nonverbal intelligence at age 7 years, according to a study published by JAMA Pediatrics,a JAMA Network publication. |
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New evidence from research suggests that infants fed formula, rather than breastmilk, experience metabolic stress that could play a part in the long-recognized link between formula-feeding and an increased risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and oth Read more |
Most of the world is joyously welcoming the arrival of the Prince of Cambridge. |
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