Recommendations for a mother with Type 1 diabetes who wonders about breastfeeding.
A mother with type 1 diabetes often wonders if breastfeeding is possible for her, and good for her baby. The answer is yes, to both questions. Babies born to diabetic parents start life with more of a chance to develop diabetes. Nothing anyone can do about that, because it is part of that baby’s genetics… read more →
Thank you, Kourtney Kardashian, for telling it like it is about weaning.
Kourtney Kardashian tells it like it is about weaning. I love that Ms Kardashian writes about the emotions that go along with breastfeeding. Nursing a baby is much more than providing food and drink; it is an experience that comes with pleasure, pain relief, fun and love. Most of the time, once breastfeeding gets into.. read more →
lovely collection of tips for babies and “sleeping through the night” .
“https://breastfeedingusa.org/content/article/night-weaning-older-babies-and-toddlers-mothers-share-their-experiences”> The first two paragraphs: “When will my child sleep through the night?” is a question so many mothers ask. It is a question I have asked. When we hear that our friend’s infant started sleeping for 10 hours a night at five months of age, we sigh a little bit, knowing that very night.. read more →
Biting a way to get attention.
This story was posted on another list and is shared here with permission. A lactation consultant went to visit her friend who was breastfeeding her third child. Her friend was a dedicated nurser with the first two, so the lactation consultant was surprised when her friend said that she was going to wean her baby, who was.. read more →
Train wreck.
Too often, lactation therapists are called in to work with dreadful situations. Jeanne Rago BA, IBCLC, FILCA graciously consented to share this story in my book, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Breastfeeding Therapy, published by Hale Publishing, www.ibreastfeeding.com. Details of this story have been changed to honor the privacy of the family. “A healthy primipara.. read more →
