Breastfeeding benefits mothers' health
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View ArticleBreastfeeding Rates High, But Mothers Stop Too Soon
Three million, or 75 percent, of all infants born in the United States in 2007 were breastfed, but mothers abandoned the practice too quickly, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
View ArticleNirvana Jennette, Mom Forced Out Of Church For Breastfeeding, Aims To Change...
Nirvana Jennette, a mom of four from Camden County, Georgia says she was forced out of church for breastfeeding her baby. Church leaders asked her to breastfeed in the bathroom and implied they could...
View ArticleUS Surgeon General issues breastfeeding 'Call to Action'
Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin issued a breastfeeding "Call to Action" on January 20, 2011, stating that, Many barriers exist for mothers who want to breastfeed. They shouldn’t have to go it...
View ArticleA key message
The Malaysian Dietary Guidelines (MDG) 2010 has provided eight key recommendations for this important message. Within each of the recommendations are several tips on how to achieve them. There are...
View ArticleNew public health goals tackle obstacles to breastfeeding success
--> For the first time, the barriers to breastfeeding are being addressed at the highest level of government. With the release today of Healthy People 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleBreastfeeding mothers seen as less competent: Study
New research from Montana State University, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggest people hold lower opinions of women who breastfeed. File photo. Photograph by: Peter...
View ArticleBreastfeeding mom accused of indecent exposure says she was 'treated like a...
A D.C. woman says she was unlawfully accused of indecent exposure after breastfeeding her infant in a public building. Simone dos Santos was breastfeeding her infant in a government building in...
View ArticleTIME Magazine Cover: Extended Breastfeeding Does Not Equal Extreme
The new cover story in TIME Magazine appears to portray mothers who practice attachment parenting, and specifically those who nurse past infancy, as extreme. The headline "Are You Mom Enough?" only...
View ArticleSeattle council considers protecting breastfeeding
SEATTLE (AP) — It's already against Washington state law to discriminate against public breastfeeding, but the Seattle City Council is weighing whether to specifically make it illegal in the city to...
View ArticleBreastfeeding in public: Is it an offense?
In the United States, many women choose not to breastfeed because they believe people will be offended if they nurse in public. Sometimes they choose not to breastfeed because they themselves feel...
View ArticleBreastfeeding 101: Early breastfeeding issues, engorgement, toxins, vitamin...
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View ArticlePlunket statistics show breastfeeding at 19 year high
Monday, 30 July 2012, 12:33 pm Press Release: New Zealand Plunket Society 30 July 2012 Plunket statistics show breastfeeding at 19 year high , released ahead of World Breastfeeding week, show New...
View ArticleBreastfeeding basics: the importance of on-demand feeding
Many women who begin breastfeeding become frustrated when newborn babies seem to feed constantly. Friends and family members who haven't breastfed (or at least, successfully breastfed) their babies...
View ArticleExtended breastfeeding: How long should a baby nurse?
Out of the 7 Bs of attachment parenting, breastfeeding (and particularly extended breastfeeding) seems to get an inordinate amount of negative attention. Perhaps it's because it's not as common in the...
View ArticleStudy finds breastfeeding mothers get as much sleep as formula feeders
It's long been said that breastfed babies wake more often during the night, but a recent study finds that their mothers still sleep just as well and just as much as mothers who rely on infant formula....
View ArticleBreastfeeding basics: benefits of extended breastfeeding
Before 2005, world medical authorities recommended that babies be breastfed exclusively from birth to six months of age for optimal health and developmental benefits. Since the American Academy of...
View ArticleMom-to-mom breastfeeding support gives at-risk babies a better chance
Erica McLeod, an Ann Arbor mother of three, holds up what looks like a string of wooden beads, each one just a little bigger than the previous one. She uses it to teach Rachel Trader, 22, of...
View ArticleBreastfeeding helps infants and moms, saves money
Three out of four new mothers in the United States start out breastfeeding, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but by the end of six months, only 43 percent of...
View Article'My court, my decision': Judge publicly 'humiliates' woman for breastfeeding...
A Michigan judge publicly reprimanded a woman after she breastfed her son in his courtroom, humiliating her and reducing her to tears, she says. The woman, 32-year-old Natalie Hegedus, said she was in...
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