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“He’s using you as a pacifier!” I thought I was the only one who regularly heard this when someone noticed that I breastfed my babies to sleep, until I read it in a list among the annoying things breastfeeding women commonly hear in La Leche League’s The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. When did a pacifier—a [...]
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When I work with mothers who are breastfeeding or who intend to breastfeed, I cannot overemphasize the importance of nursing on demand. This means not scheduling feedings and not substituting pacifiers or bottles for the real thing. The breasts produce as much milk as is needed, no more and no less. And a baby nurses [...]
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Just this month (August) the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released it’s 2012 Breastfeeding Report Card. The news was good. In areas of initiating breastfeeding, breastfeeding friendly hospitals, and breastfeeding at 6 and 12 months, the percentage is higher than last year. When looking at the data for each individual state, one can clearly see [...]
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I believe in a concept called subsidiarity. In a nut shell, it’s the belief that political decisions should be made at the lowest, most local level possible. The government, therefore, should not step in and take over matters which individuals and groups can themselves govern. Mayor Bloomberg of New York recently developed a new program [...]
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I’m sure that you’ve heard by now that Facebook temporarily banned Lauren Ferrari, a blogger and Facebook user, for uploading a picture of her oldest daughter pretending to breastfeed her youngest daughter. I think it’s the most crazy thing that I’ve heard. A child pretending to breastfed is sexual? It’s child pornography? Unfortunately I’m not [...]
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Apparently the internet is all aflutter with the latest in breastfeeding. The news reports that a television show is going to feature a man who helps his erectile dysfunction through breastfeeding. There is also The New York Times editorial piece featuring a gentlemen complaining about his wife breastfeeding their five year old. I understand [...]
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Last week I was in the supermarket waiting in line. The lady in front of me, clearly pregnant, had her groceries on the belt. The last group of items was infant formula, the kind with the orange ring. They were Similac sensitive formula. On top of the cans was a pink WIC (Women, Infants, Children) [...]
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I have two breastfed boys, and both of them like to bite. My toddler especially hurts because he has a mouthful of teeth, and he’s purposefully doing it so he locks his jaws. Although blood has not been drawn, my poor nipples look beat up with all those teeth marks. I was thrilled, then, when [...]
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I practice “extended” nursing. I don’t really consider it to be extended because historically and anthropologically, the average age for weaning is roughly three years of age. According to various studies, biologically, humans would normally wean at about three years of age if it is a societal norm. What I mean by weaning is that [...]
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Editor’s Note: This post is not meant to be a discussion about vaccinations. The focus of this post is about educating our health care professionals about nursing during painful procedures. My oldest son has nursed during vaccinations. Our first two pediatricians were perfectly fine with it. In fact they were encouraging of it. Several research [...]
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I’m a stay-at-home mom, but I’ve always been curious as to what happens with my work-away-from-home mom counterparts. I asked a friend of mine, Tiffany, if she would be willing to grant me an interview. Tiffany is a librarian in western New York. She has two children ages 6 years and 10 months. The interview [...]
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Once you’ve mastered the art of pumping and hand expression, the next big hurtle is milk storage. There is so much information out there that it’s hard to remember it all. I find myself looking through books and the internet for reminders. I’ve found that I’m not the only one. One of the most commonly [...]
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