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Breastfeeding is best for mental health:Bottle feeding elicits mourning response

Bottle feeding mimics the loss of a child in mother’s brains.

August 27,2009 | 65 comments

Breasts in Mourning:How Bottle-Feeding Mimics Child Loss in Mothers’Brains After a successful birth,opting not to breast-feed may trigger evolved mourning behaviors

By Jesse Bering

Jesse Bering

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Neonatologist Speaks Out:Breastmilk is Critical

With the number of premature births steadily increasing over the past five years,what can you do to help premature babies survive? Breastfeed,if it’s your own baby;donate milk,if you have extra;encourage others to read this and support the milk banks.

Invaluable Breastmilk

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India has the answer again:Breast Crawl

How can we as a nation sit back and look at the alarmingly high rates of infant mortality for a developed country,obesity in children,food sensitivities,ADHD,Autism and more and not look to our babies’ first few moments.

In a country so bent on being the best and excelling how do . . . →Read More:India has the answer again:Breast Crawl

Skin to Skin Contact,even for C-sections

If you haven’t read this article yet,or visited the Stork Stories blog,you are missing some amazing stories and a ray of hope from the world of hospitals. Here is an excerpt from an amazing article,please click to read it in its entirety. This is so powerful it needs to be shared.

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Northern Illinois Breastfeeding Taskforce Conference

The brochure for the upcoming Northern Illinois Breastfeeding Taskforce conference on July 14,2010,is now available here:http://www.swedishamerican.org/pdfs/services/center_for_women/SA_Breastfeeding_2010-FINAL.pdf

The featured speaker is Nils Bergman,a world renown expert in Kangaroo Mother Care.</p>Location:Franchesco’s Restaurant  

7128 Perry Creek Parkway   

Rockford,IL 61107 Cost for the conference is $50 (lunch included)

This will . . . →Read More:Northern Illinois Breastfeeding Taskforce Conference

Weaning without the Woes

Is there such a thing as weaning without woes? There seems to be a small amount of separation anxiety or withdrawal,whatever you call it,that comes along with the cessation of nursing. With my older son I nursed for 6 months while I was in college and working. It was hard being a . . . →Read More:Weaning without the Woes

What to do when baby bites while nursing

The overall consensus is not to scream – but as a momma who has nursed two nibbly boys I can tell you this is hard and takes restraint. I find that there are some that advocate pulling the baby in close to force them to let go on their own – theory being . . . →Read More:What to do when baby bites while nursing