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Business lobbyists sometimes fight legislation that would protect breastfeeding in the workplace. Here’s some powerful data to show why businesses should in fact support breastfeeding:
A study of Working Well Moms, CIGNA’s corporate lactation program for employees who breastfeed, revealed a savings of $240 thousand annually in health care expenses for breastfeeding mothers and their children. […]
This 16th century Italian painting by Solario hangs in the Louvre in Paris. It’s entitled “The Virgin with the Green Cushion.” Perhaps today it might be better known as The Original Boppy!
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One factor that can influence breastfeeding initiation and success is good modeling — whether your own mother breastfed you as a baby (and told you about it, and encouraged you–or your wife–to breastfeed). I remember asking my mother whether she breastfed me. I don’t think I would have changed my mind about breastfeeding had she […]
Good news from the last Breastfeeding 1-2-3 poll! In the survey, husbands and partners were overwhelmingly supportive of breastfeeding. When asked, “Is your husband/partner/the baby’s father supportive of breastfeeding?” not a single person answered “no.” Here’s the breakdown of the 83 responses:
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Lansinoh runs monthly drawings to give away free breast pumps! United States residents can enter their name, address, phone number and email address at the Lansinoh website for a chance to win a free double electric breast pump or a free manual breast pump. Good luck!
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Attend enough breastfeeding support group meetings and your child too may want to play “breastfeeding counselor and breastfeeding mother.” My husband tells me that our two-year-old wanted to play that game with him. It was a short game that went like this:
Husband (as breastfeeding mother): “I’m having some trouble breastfeeding.”
Two-year-old (as breastfeeding counselor, handing him […]
If you’re reading a breastfeeding blog you’re probably already pretty web savvy, but I still thought I’d highlight some of the various forums and message boards out there for the support of breastfeeding mothers. There are boards for adoptive breastfeeding, pumping, breastfeeding while pregnant, tandem nursing–you name it. Some are moderated and some even have […]
It’s hard enough trying to pronounce “La Leche League.” Add in the name of the popular breast pump maker “Medela” and it’s no wonder some of us get confused. Worry no more: Medela is pronounced “meh-DEE-la.”
Medela is a Swiss company founded in 1961. It makes the personal use pumps the Medela New Pump In […]
Happy Father’s Day! One of La Leche League’s ten principles says it all when it comes to the father’s role in supporting breastfeeding:
Breastfeeding is enhanced and the nursing couple sustained by the loving support, help, and companionship of the baby’s father. A father’s unique relationship with his baby is an important element in the child’s […]
On-line breastfeeding communities have their own abbreviations. I’m discovering that the community of breastfeeding professionals has its own set of abbreviations too.
AAFP = American Academy of Family Physicians, which recommends exclusive breastfeeding for six months and warns: “If the child is younger than two years of age, the child is at increased risk of illness […]
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