"Mother support groups, including La Leche League International, provide role models and accurate information for both normal breastfeeding as well as problem-solving.
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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"Despite the findings, Branovsky said there is ample evidence that a nurturing bond between mother and child after birth is important to child development, and breast-feeding can still be one tool to promote that bond. |
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Our economic system places absolutely no value on breastfeeding despite its overwhelming benefits to babies, families, and the next generation. |
The roots of racial disparity in breastfeeding rates among Blacks and Whites share those of overall racial health disparities, according to an American study published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal. |
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La Leche League International has issued a statement in response to the American Academy of Pediatrics's Infant Sleep Policy updated in 2016. |
The 2017 theme for World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7, has been announced: "Sustaining Breastfeeding Together." |
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Breastfeeding can directly address climate change, because producing breastmilk doesn't contribute to the depletion of natural resources as does the industrial process of making infant formula, bottles, and other bottle-feeding equipment as well a Read more |
Brelfies are the hottest trend to hit breastfeeding advocacy in awhile, and if you're wondering how to turn a photo of you nursing -- which everyone should have at least one of! -- into a #treeoflife brelfie, head on over to PicsArt. |
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Infants with a genetic risk toward developing asthma had a 27% decreased risk of developing respiratory symptoms while breastfed for at least 1 year, according to a Swiss study presented at the 2016 European Respiratory Society International Congr Read more |
Breastfeeding women rely on the support of health care professionals and breastfeeding specialists to initiate and continue breastfeeding through challenges. |
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