There’s a new breastfeeding doll on the European market that is creating quite the stir on the internet. It bears the unfortunate name, Bebé Glotón, which is actually a term of endearment in Spain, literally translated as “the gluttonous baby, “but if the doll ever makes it way to North America I’m sure that someone is [...]
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Many new parents want to know when it’s the best time to introduce a bottle. Why? So dad can feed the baby and get to bond with the baby too. While this sounds like a great idea to new moms who want to share the responsibilities of having a new baby with their eager partner [...]
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Today I’m wondering how many of us were breastfed and if you think it made any difference to the type of relationship you have with your mom? Non-breastfeeders feel free to jump in here too. My mom was not breastfed. She, like the rest of her siblings, was bottle fed a concoction made of evaporated [...]
My rant You’d think people would get it, that supporting a breastfeeding culture would decrease hunger issues among children. Not just here at home but in the developing world as well. However, Nestle and the other formula giants felt the need for world domination so with the expertise of their scientists and the expertise of [...]
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Leslie Ott, a certified lactation educator, who is working towards becoming a IBCLC has an idea that just may revolutionize American breastfeeding society and health care. She wants to create a non-profit organization to provide breastfeeding education, resources, lactation consultant services and support, breast pumps and supplies at little or no cost for low income [...]
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I imagine all these moms out there, sitting on their couches breastfeeding their babies, wondering what they can do to celebrate Earth Day. Sometimes it’s hard enough just to get off the couch let alone go and pick up garbage around your neighbourhood or hike into the wilderness to plant a tree. Well, I am [...]
A new study by the Boston University School of Public Health shows that even when hospitals encorage new mothers to breastfeed, those same hospitals sometimes do things that increase the chance the babies will end up drinking formula instead. See entire article here. Basically, trained maternity nurses who should have been taught “Breastfeeding 101″ at school [...]
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