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Breastfeeding - Starting Out Right

Breastfeeding is the natural, physiologic way of feeding infants and young children, and human milk is the milk made specifically for human infants. Formulas made from cow’s milk or soybeans (most formulas, even “designer formulas”) are only superficially similar, and advertising which states otherwise is misleading. Breastfeeding should be easy and trouble free for most... Read more...

Is My Baby Getting Enough Milk?

Breastfeeding mothers frequently ask how to know their babies are getting enough milk. The breast is not the bottle, and it is not possible to hold the breast up to the light to see how many ounces or millilitres of milk the baby drank. Our number obsessed society makes it difficult for some mothers to accept not seeing exactly how much milk the baby receives. However, there are ways of knowing that the baby is getting enough. In the long run, weight gain is the best indication... Read more...

Some Breastfeeding Myths

1. Many women do not produce enough milk. Not true! The vast majority of women produce more than enough milk. Indeed, an overabundance of milk is common. Most babies that gain too slowly, or lose weight, do so not because the mother does not have enough milk, but because the baby does not get the milk that the mother has. The usual reason that the baby does not get the milk that is available is that he... Read more...

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Breastfeeding in the News!

Breastfeeding Benefits Outweigh HIV Risk - Studies

The benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the risks of virus transmission from HIV-positive mothers to their children, studies conducted in four African nations showed. According to SciDev. Net, the studies conducted in Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and Uganda and presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Los Angeles, United States, this week have shown results that commend breastfeeding. Read More...

10 Tips for Breastfeeding
Here are some helpful tips for making breastfeeding go more smoothly:

1. Meet with a lactation specialist through your hospital before giving birth to prepare you for breastfeeding and to help ease the transition once the baby arrives. You can also request to have a lactation specialist on-hand postpartum to help with the first breastfeeding sessions.

2. Take a breastfeeding class with your partner to help him understand the process and to encourage him to be more involved and supportive, both physically and emotionally. Read More...

Breastfeeding Linked to Reduced Bed-wetting
“Delayed neurodevelopment can have a profound impact on raising likelihood of nocturnal enuresis” By Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Babies who are breastfed for longer than three months are less likely to exhibit bed-wetting during childhood, according to a new study by researchers at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s children’s hospital and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Results of the study, publishing in the July issue of Pediatrics, found that children who were breastfed for less than three months were twice as likely to experience bed-wetting as compared to those who were breastfed for more than...Read More...