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Breastfeeding a Toddler
Because more and more women are now breastfeeding their babies, more and more are also finding that they enjoy breastfeeding enough to want to continue longer than the usual few…
Will Breastfeeding Give Your Child Cavities?
Breastfed children have far fewer dental cavities than those who are bottle-fed. This includes nursing caries as well as other cavities. The unfortunate term "nursing caries" refers to a typical…
Breastfeeding Trial
Moments after he was born, I lifted my newborn son to my breast. He nursed beautifully for fifteen minutes, the perfect end to the perfect birth. Ha! Somewhere in those…
Breastfeeding – Starting Out Right
Breastfeeding is the natural, physiologic way of feeding infants and young children, and human milk is the milk made specifically for human infants. Formulas made from cow’s milk or soybeans…
Equal Opportunity for Babies: Breastfeeding as a Strategic Priority
In March 2005 in Canberra, three MPs decided to breastfeed their babies while in Parliament House. This could have stimulated wider understanding of the far-reaching importance of breastfeeding for human…
Breastfeeding Baby Refuses Bottle
QUESTION: I'm trying to get my 3-month-old son to take a bottle for when I have to go out, and he absolutely refuses. I've tried every different nipple on the…
Some Breastfeeding Myths
1. Many women do not produce enough milk. Not true! The vast majority of women produce more than enough milk. Indeed, an overabundance of milk is common. Most babies that…
Returning to Work or School
Once you successfully make it through the early weeks of breastfeeding, and manage to overcome any problems you may have had in the beginning (soreness, engorgement, hormonal rushes, etc.) you…
More Breastfeeding Myths
1. A breastfeeding mother has to be obsessive about what she eats. Not true! A breastfeeding mother should try to eat a balanced diet, but neither needs to eat any…
Breastfeeding and the Children and Families Commission
"A society which does not put its women and children at the forefront of consciousness and commitment is a society without a future." Robert A. Heinlein "Low breastfeeding rates are…