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Breastfeeding Tips 9
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- Breastfeeding and Other Foods for Baby
Breastmilk is the only food your baby needs until about 6 months of age. This article by Dr. Jack Newman discusses how to avoid inappropriate supplementation and when and how to appropriately introduce solid foods.
- MoBoleez Launches the First Breastfeeding Hat
MoBoleez hats are modern bonnets for breastfeeding babies, designed with a little head for the baby and a big floppy brim that covers the mother's breast. The hats come in a variety of designs and colours printed on the top of the hat, so the design is visible when breastfeeding.
- An Eleven-Pound, Twelve-Ounce Breastfed Baby
One mother tells her story about the success of exclusively breastfeeding her third child, going against her family's tradition of artificial milk feeding with bottles, and discovering the spiritual side to breastfeeding. The ruminations of breastfeeding blogger Rivster.
- Breast Pump Forums or Message Boards
For mothers who use a breast pump, these forums are great places to get connected with others, banish the isolation, and gather helpful advice from other breastfeeding and pumping mothers.
- Gentle Ways to Stop a Baby From Biting
A comment from a reader prompted Angela White of Breastfeeding 1-2-3 Blog to write this post about strategies to prevent a baby from biting while breastfeeding.
- Handling a Nursing Strike
When a baby or child suddenly stops breastfeeding after weeks or months of enjoyable breastfeeding, or stops after a period of increasingly reluctant feeding, it is called a nursing strike. The possible causes and tips for ending a nursing strike are covered in this article by Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC.
- Breastfeeding Tips (Part 5)
Breastfeeding supportive characters, studies on intelligence and mental health, breast pump reviews, reverse cycling or night breastfeeding, a nursing room locator, baby biting, preparing a nursing area, and best breast pumps are the breastfeeding tips on this page.
- HIV in Breastmilk Killed by Flash-Heating
A simple method of flash-heating breast milk infected with HIV successfully inactivated the free-floating virus, according to a new study led by researchers at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California.
- Breastfeeding Book Reviews at Kellymom.com
Kelly Bonyata, IBCLC, reviews breastfeeding books with categories of reviews called featured books, parenting and sleep, children's books, and mini-book reviews. She marks each book with an icon for being recommended or not recommended.
- Using Cues For A Faster Let-Down with Your Breast Pump
If you can associate your let-down with an action you can control such as a stimulus or a cue, you can reduce the time it takes for let-down to occur with or without your baby's help. Article by Matia Bryson.
- Toxic Chemicals and Human Milk
Toxic flame retardants known as PBDEs and other harmful chemicals have been found in human milk with levels in the United States being more than twenty times higher than in Japan or Europe. The good news is that breastfeeding protects the health of babies and may reduce the harm from some chemicals. A PDF brochure, a survey, and useful links from the Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington.
- The Family Bed Safety Checklist for Night Breastfeeding
To make co-sleeping safer, certain precautions should be taken. Co-sleeping has been proven to increase the duration and success of breast feeding.
- Illness and Breastfeeding
Very few maternal illnesses require the mother to stop breastfeeding. Breastfeeding protects the baby against infection, and the mother should continue breastfeeding, in order to protect the baby. Breastfeeding rarely needs to be discontinued for infant illness. Through breastfeeding, the mother is able to comfort the sick child, and, by breastfeeding, the child is able to comfort the mother. Article by Dr. Jack Newman.
- Breastfeeding and the Older Mother
Women who give birth over the age of 35 may have particular concerns in breastfeeding. This article by Janice M. Batzdorff on the La Leche League website addresses those common concerns and features anecdotes from older nursing mothers.
- A Breastfeeding Baby with Down Syndrome
One mother's story of her struggles and successes in providing her daughter with breast milk. A blog post from Tanya at the Motherwear Blog, from an email by a reader, Rachel.
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