"One day we asked him [Shawn Baker, a public health expert with Helen Keller International] where he would invest a billion dollars if he had 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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The Milky Way is a film to empower mothers. The Milky Way reveals the real power vested in women's bodies and how that affects their babies - even the tiniest of preemies. |
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In the breastfeeding domain, the people who write denialist headlines know that science has a persistent habit of going against the relativistic, "whatever feels right for you is therefore right" modern mindset. |
Initial choices about breastfeeding will likely influence future breastfeeding decisions, so breastfeeding interventions should specifically target new mothers. |
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Babies who are breastfed show signs of early brain development, particularly in regions associated with language, emotional function, and cognition. |
At more than 70 percent, the frequency of initiating breastfeeding in the United States is high. However, attrition rates in the first weeks and months after discharge from the newborn nursery are substantial. Why? |
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Learn how hormones help to coordinate a baby's need for milk (sucking or crying) with a woman's release of milk in this Khan Academy video. |
Babies' milk teeth carry their early food history, and this record remains stable for tens of thousands of years. |
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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 |
Breastfeeding is not only good for baby but also good for mums, with a new study by the University of Western Sydney finding breastfeeding reduces the chances of mums developing high blood pressure even decades later. |
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