Whatever you decide, I encourage you to do what is best for you and your baby . That may mean breast feeding your child
The news has been full of stories about new breastfeeding research lately. Below are a few studies of note, and many more can be found here . Breastfeeding may reduce childhood obesity risk . Researchers at Temple University found that breastfeeding may reduce obesity risk, perhaps due to behavioral factors. The authors "found breastfed children could more easily determine when they were full
Some new moms think sore nipples are an inevitable part of nursing, so they try to treat the pain with home remedies or they just put up with it and hope it goes away. According to Dr.
Our next carnival of breastfeeding will feature reviews of nursing products. Is there a pillow or tea you couldn’t live without? Is there a book you’ve been wanting to read or a bra you’ve been wanting to try out? Here’s your chance to write about it! As usual, we’ll be looking for posts that are: - Well written and grammatically correct - Thoughtful and directly related to the carnival subject - Submitted from blogs related to breastfeeding or parenting Email me your submission by November 10th, 2008. The carnival will be on 17th, 2008. Please note that, if your post is selected for inclusion by our regular group of bloggers, you will be asked to link to each of the other participants in the carnival. We reserve the right to choose posts for inclusion. Examples of past carnival posts can be found here . Want to get email updates from the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog? Subscribe here . Want an RSS feed? Click here .
Today I’m very pleased to share a guest post by Trista, a mother of six who nursed triplets. Trista and her family live in Iowa. When I was growing up, all I wanted to be was a mom
Have you seen the breastfeeding scenes in Me, Myself, and Irene? Training Day? Meet the Fockers? What do they say about how we feel as a culture about breastfeeding? I’m pleased to bring you a new podcast interview with Sarah Rubenstein Gillis, whose article "Reel Milk" appears in the current edition of Mothering Magazine (will link as soon as it’s available online). In it she discusses what she found when she went hunting for references to breastfeeding in mainstream American film. On her website , Sarah lists all of the movies in which she’s found references to breastfeeding. You can listen to the podcast using the player below, or download it from our iTunes store (should be up later today). Check out past podcasts , too! Want to get email updates from the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog? Subscribe here . Want an RSS feed? Click here .
After last week’s post about some very discouraging practices at most hospitals, I was happy to find this video (below) on Harlem Hospital’s Baby Friendly status. It’s not easy to become Baby Friendly. It requires a lot of commitment and coordination, so this is a big achievement. I felt better after watching it. Another heartening piece of news came from a lactation consultant with whom I trained in California. She is coordinating a county wide effort in San Joaquin County to improve breastfeeding rates at all hospitals. The Stockton Record reports : All six of the county’s acute-care hospitals with maternity departments have signed on to a new initiative to improve breast-feeding efforts. It’s the first such countywide collaboration among any of California’s 58 counties.
Well, maybe this video wasn’t as far off as I thought. A Canadian study shows that men’s prolactin levels increase when their partners are pregnant: In a surprising series of tests by Canadian scientists, up to 90 per cent of dads have reported pregnancy-like symptoms such as nausea, cravings and weight gain. Anne Storey, of Memorial University, Newfoundland, analysed 31 expectant men’s blood and found that those with phantom-pregnancy symptoms had significantly raised levels of the hormone prolactin, which is named for its role in promoting lactation in women