Breastfeeding
Breast-Feeding Doll Too Real for Comfort?
A Toy That Mimics Breast-Feeding on Girls’ Chests Is Causing an Uproar
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Breastfeeding has health benefit for moms: Study
Breast isn’t just best for baby: mothers who don’t breastfeed their babies may increase their risk of heart attacks and strokes decades later, new research suggests.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Backlash to Breast is Best
Babble: Why exactly is breastfeeding under attack? by Jennifer Block
April 21, 2009
The worldwide “Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative” is a great campaign — get the baby skin-to-skin with mom first thing after birth, leave them be for an hour to start nursing, and basically phase out the nursery. A centerpiece of the initiative is to ban [...]
Breast Feeding mum told to stop (Australia)
12:00a.m. 8th November 2008 (thedaily.com.au)
A woman who was told to breastfeed her baby in the toilet block of a Coast public swimming pool plans to complain to the Anti-Discrimination Commission.
Kylie Robinson had begun feeding Isla, five months, by the steps of a small heated pool at the Cotton Tree Aquatic Centre when an attendant told [...]
Mother wants right to breastfeed in pool (Canada)
Published: Nov. 12, 2008 at 8:40 AM
NEWMARKET, Ontario, Nov. 12 (UPI) — A Toronto-area woman claims her rights were violated when she was asked to stop breastfeeding while half immersed in a public swimming pool.
The incident happened Oct. 24 in Newmarket, northeast of Toronto, when 32-year-old Cinira Longuinho began breastfeeding her daughter while sitting [...]
Jolie breast-feeding photo: triumph or trouble?
Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:49pm EDT
By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A magazine cover photo of Angelina Jolie breast-feeding one of her newborn twins may have turned the superstar actress into a role model for new mothers.
The photo, taken by Jolie’s partner Brad Pitt, will adorn the November issue of W magazine. Other family pictures [...]
Latching on: Group raises awareness of breastfeeding issues
By Story By Joseph Robertia | Peninsula Clarion
Saturday, several local moms and their babies “latched on” to a good cause, and took part in the 2008 Global Breastfeeding Challenge, held locally at the Funky Monkey coffee house in Kenai.
“The point is to provide support for local moms and create an awareness of breastfeeding issues,” said [...]
Nurse-in planned at H&M’s downtown Vancouver store
David Carrigg, Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, August 07, 2008
A nurse-in is planned at H&M’s new Vancouver store Thursday after a nursing mother was told by staff she could not nurse in public.
In a letter published online, Manuela Valle said she was at the H&M store in the Pacific Centre Mall in downtown Vancouver on Tuesday [...]
Study shows breast-fed children are smarter
A new study provides some of the best evidence to date that breast-feeding can make children smarter, an international team of researchers said Monday. Children whose mothers breast-fed them longer and did not mix in baby formula scored higher on intelligence tests, the researchers in Canada and Belarus reported…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Breastfed score higher in IQ testing
In the largest study of its kind, Canadian researchers following nearly 14,000 Belarusian children are reporting that those who were exclusively breastfed longer score higher on IQ tests and in academic performance in reading and writing…
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