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Another study, more confusion
A Yahoo news report on a UK study of current guidelines that mothers breastfeed exclusively until babies are 6 months old began: “Breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months is not necessarily...
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Breastfeeding and intimacy
The other night I taught my regular breastfeeding class (“Breastfeeding Basics” at Blossom Birth in Palo Alto). One of the prospective parents–a mom–stayed after class to ask a question about a topic...
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Watch your baby, not your iPhone timer
There are two schools of thought about how to prepare for breastfeeding (and, I suspect, to parenting as well). One is the read-everything, prepare-to-the-nth-degree approach. These folks read all they...
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Cause and Effect: Birth -> Breastfeeding
Being both a birth doula and a supporter of breastfeeding moms puts me in an interesting position to observe the (sometimes dramatic) effects of the birth experience on breastfeeding. This is a tricky...
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It’s either hard or it’s easy
Even after more than 10 years of helping moms with breastfeeding and more than seven years as a birth doula watching first feedings and then following up to see how things go, I’m not sure I can say...
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Get out of the house
I know how hard it is to get out of the house. Even after 13-plus years of being a parent and honing the morning routine, I experience many days when getting myself and everyone else out the door is a...
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Head and heart are not either/or
I recently came across two different discussions of breastfeeding that share a very important outlook. Rather than presenting breastfeeding as an activity to be mastered by the mom–like golf or gourmet...
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“Why do you need a class about that?”
My teenage son, who has grown up listening to me talking about birth and helping moms with breastfeeding on the phone, asked a great question the other day when I told him I was on my way to teach a...
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Benefits of Breastfeeding vs. Risks of Formula Feeding
“Women do not fail to breastfeed. Health professionals, health agencies and governments fail to educate and support women who want to breastfeed.” I’ve been teaching breastfeeding for about nine years....
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