After eating hollow chocolate bunnies for breakfast (not of the Nestle variety), a successful Easter Egg hunt in the front yard, and playing with some neat biodegradable and compostable building blocks (called Enviro Blox) from the Easter bunny, Daddy has taken the girls swimming and I am having some computer time.
Today I just felt like surfing, so I did some link following. I love the places links take me. Such a great way to find new blogs! Eventually I came across Authentic Parenting, where I stayed awhile, reading and checking out her blog roll, which lead me to The Curious Lactivist (check out her awesome post called Wetness is Opportunity) which led me to Busy Moms Breastfeed and these wonderful eye opening stats:
Prenatal Breastfeeding Education Is The Key To Avoiding Most Breastfeeding Challenges
- 72% of women who planned to breastfeed for at least 6 months have weaned before their babies are 6 weeks old.
- Most early breastfeeding difficulties can be avoided. These include; sore nipples, engorgement, mastitis, thrush, jaundice, and slow infant weight gain.
- Crying is a late sign of hunger. By the time your baby cries you have missed as many as 5 feeding cues letting you know that your baby is hungry.
- 80% of the immune system is located in the digestive tract. Breast milk coats the lining of your baby’s digestive track protecting it from harmful microbes. Human milk also has special growth factors that will help your baby’s immune system mature.
- Most first time mothers attend fewer than 2 hours of breastfeeding education classes (A really good reason to purchase the My Baby Experts Simply Breastfeeding DVD set ~ affiliate link).
- “Breastfeeding should be continued for at least the first year of life.” American Academy of Pediatrics.
Happy Easter! Happy Breastfeeding!
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Ooooh! Thanks! Especially for the link to the bfing DVD set–the more DVD materials I have for new parents, the better! Many don’t read the books I lend them!
I keep meaning to scroll thru your posts and find it but if you have the title on hand, maybe that would be more likely to get done…
And I wanted to add to your adoptive moms bfing stories with my own semi-success story but haven’t had time to type it out yet. I think I’ll type it on my own blog and then copy it to you!
Do you have any good resources on bfing during pregnancy and tandem nursing?
And what was that book with the 11 year old bfing child in it? I want to order that one!!
p.s. in my bfing course we read a study that indicated spousal support was the #1 indicator of bfing initiation in women. How can we get men on board? So much bfing info and education is directed towards WOMEN (which is great, but!).
And I went to the Douglas College Annual Bfing Education Day and one of the midwives in the audience mentioned that it is proven that a correlation exists between men who WERE breastfed as children and their children being breastfed–isn’t that interesting?? Makes me feel better about bfing my sons because I always felt it would be wasted as a mulit generational thing because I don’t have daughters. But apparantly, not so! So interesting. Would love to read research to that affect…
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Great stats. Our lactation consultant for our site says the same thing – Being prepared is the key: http://www.sixtysecondparent.c.....e_prepared
@ Melissa and everyone – I just wanted to let you know that if you do purchase the Simply Breastfeeding DVD set or audio CD to go through the pink box under Think. Act. Buy. on my site because it has a special link that I wasn’t able to figure out how to include in my post. The special link somehow tracks that the referrla came from my site in order to give me the commisssion. I am also going to be posting a review and giveaway of the “new and improved” Simply Breastfeeding DVD as well as the Breastpumps and Briefcases audio CD on April 7th. To read the review I did of the first edition of the DVD go here. http://www.breastfeedingmomsun.....eding-dvd/
Thanks!
My review of book Breastfeeding Older Children
http://www.breastfeedingmomsun.....-children/
My story of Breastfeeding a Toddler During Pregnancy
http://www.breastfeedingmomsun.....pregnancy/
At the bottom of the second post are reading recommendations that both cover tandem nursing. I especially founf Hilary Flower’s book most helpful!
Great set of quick facts! Those are important things to note.
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Hi thanks for having visited my blog, and mentioning it. Hope you like what you found
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My first born (my son) was such a champ at breastfeeding I foolishly thought it would be just as easy with my daughter. Long story short, we had a harder time, I did not get support to keep trying. I wish I’d known about your site and others at that time! The fact about hunger cues and crying is a great one! With my son I didn’t let him get past one or two cues. Neighbors always commented that they never heard him cry and would forget that we had an infant in the house!
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I’m amazed so many women try but give up so quickly. It sounds like more breastfeeding support right at the beginning is definitely needed!
I wish more pediatricians were knowledgeable about and supportive of breastfeeding-I think that would help (as opposed to being told to supplement from the beginning like I was told by the pediatrician). Is there any kind of accountability for doctors on whether they follow the American Academy of Pediatrics’s recommendations on things?
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@Maman A Droit – I don’t know if there is any kind of accountability. I am going to assume not because the Academy’s recommendations are just that and there is no law saying you have to follow recommendations. Same with the following WHO recommendations or the WHO Code regarding breast milk substitutes. Whereas my first reaction would be to say, “well they should make it a law of the doctor should have some accountability” I would feel pretty annoyed not having the right to refuse Western medicine in favour of herbs, nutrition, vitamin supplements or bodywork. Even though *I* know that the recommendation is for following my doctor’s advice to take drugs. Now my personal doctor lets me make the choice as she is schooled in both Eastern and Western medicine. If I choose acupuncture or herbs has she not followed the recommendations given to her to tell me here in the West?
Anyway, I’m rambling a bit and off topic, but does that make sense?
wow those stats are incredible!! knowledge and support are HUGE in successful breastfeeding. I think men these days find it very weird which makes it hard for women to breastfeed for any length of time.
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@Melodie- I definitely don’t think it should be a law. It’d just be
nice if maybe they had special designations for the doctors who do follow the recommendations on different topics so the public can tell where their pediatrician stands… Just a certificate on the wall and a line on their website is all I was thinking!
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@Maman A Droit – That would be a VERY good idea!
Thanks for the help and support to women. I BF the daughter I adopted at birth. It really helped with her bonding process. We got a full supply when she was 6 months old.
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