Are you a new dad trying to figure out how to support your partner with breastfeeding? Or perhaps you’re worried that you’ll miss out bonding with your baby. We’ve come up with 10 tips for new dads to get involved with breastfeeding to support Mom and baby. 1. Bond with baby Dads can bond with …
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Every Newborn, when placed on the Mother’s abdomen, soon after birth, has the ability to find its Mother’s breast all on its own and to decide when to take the first Breastfeed! This is called the Breast Crawl. PRICELESS!! The Beauty of Life:Breast Feeding Is Healthy and Natural.. Posted by Africa Forever Website & TV …
Nursing Mothers are commonly warned: “Don’t let your baby use your breast as a pacifier.” Although often said, this is an incredibly curious statement. After all, which came first, the breast or the pacifier? The breast, of course, long predates the pacifier (aka “dummy”), a man-made device designed late in human history to soothe babies …
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LUCKNOW, India — What if there were a remedy that could save more children’s lives in the developing world than are claimed by Malaria and AIDS combined? A miracle substance that reduces ear infections while seeming to raise scores on I.Q. tests by several points? Available even in the most remote villages, requiring no electricity …
VIDEO WATCH: This is a short clip of a breastfed baby’s tongue movement. This is what it looks like when your baby breastfeeds! Isn’t it fabulous? The tongue undulates from the front towards the back of the tongue, gently massaging the milk out of the milk ducts around the areola. “> The reason why many …
As far as titles in academic journals go, it’s quite the attention-getter. “There is no such thing as Infant sleep, there is no such thing as Breastfeeding, there is only Breastsleeping,” reads the title of a new peer-reviewed commentary piece by University of Notre Dame anthropologists James McKenna and Lee Gettler that appears in the …
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Breast-feeding might Enhance Social Development in Certain at-risk Infants: Researchers found that among 44 babies with a particular Autism “Risk” gene, those who were Breastfed longer spent more time looking at images of “Happy” eyes and shied away from “Angry” eyes
There is a lot of really good, really helpful information about breastfeeding out there. But between the Internet and the abundance of insights from well-meaning (but often woefully misinformed) friends and family, there is also a lot of misinformation. We asked a team of breastfeeding experts for some of the most stubborn myths they hear …
Dr. James J. McKenna is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. He is a world-renowned expert on infant sleep — particularly the practice of bed sharing in relation to breastfeeding. In our conversations, he shared his insights on co-sleeping and bi-phasic sleep …
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Exclusive pumping is becoming more popular among American Moms, often seen as a way Moms can “have it all.” Meanwhile, the effects on Maternal and infant health—and workplace policies—are rarely discussed. A serious pregnancy complication sent first-time mom Missy Boss into an emergency cesarean section; by the time she delivered, her blood pressure was at …
