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Choose Carefully Your Baby Nickname for Breast Feeding
Even if you are not sure if you will nurse your baby into the toddler years, this is sound parenting advice for many related subjects such as toileting and anatomy.
Breastfed Babies Have Better Motor Skills
When the researchers began their work, they were skeptical of a link between breastfeeding and motor skills, but they discovered that infants who were exclusively breastfed for at least four months were fifty percent less likely to have developmental delays in milestones like sitting and standing alone.
Breast Feeding Tip: Rally Family Support
Carrie Lauth writes that studies show that the attitude of the baby's father and maternal grandmother are one of the most important factors in breastfeeding success. If the going gets tough, it helps if these two are on your side.
Help Your Baby Heal With the Power of Breastfeeding
Breast milk is one of the best things you can give to your baby when he or she is ill.
Paced Bottle Feeding as a Tool to Reinforce Breastfeeding
The Dee Kassing method of bottle-feeding requires babies to expend effort and use their oral anatomy in ways very similar to breastfeeding. Alternative feeding devices are still preferred, but this method helps to prevent nipple confusion or what Kassing calls suck confusion with bottles.
What You Should Know About Sharing Or Buying a Used Breast Pump
This article by Cindy Curtis, IBCLC, covers the differences between open system and closed system
breast pumps, naming brands. The dangers of open system pumps include the transmission of pathogens like HIV, CMV, hepatitis and yeast infections like thrush.
Breast Pumping at Work: Bring a Cloth Diaper
Even if you use disposable diapers on your baby, you will find many handy uses for a package of cloth diapers, such as this tip about pumping at work.
Let Your Baby Cue When It Is Time to Breastfeed
Breast feeding on demand is not watching the clock for when it is time to nurse and how long a feeding will last. That way you can be sure that you and your baby will be happier.
Free Breast Feeding Picture Book To Download For Children
A 15 illustration booklet that explains to young children how breastfeeding works, including extended
breastfeeding, pumping, milk donation, tandem nursing and other topics connected with breastfeeding.
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