Check out this hiking adventure from Erin Lotz at Outdoor Baby where two moms forget a very important item on their Grand Canyon trip. Here’s a little bit of the intro: We planned to hike to the river, spend a night, hike along the river, spend another night, and then hike all the way back. …
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Breastfeeding Promotion Act
From the United States Breastfeeding Committee: On June 11, 2009, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (NY) and Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) introduced the Breastfeeding Promotion Act in both houses of Congress, to provide a unified national policy to keep mothers, their children, and their communities healthy. This is the first time the bill has been introduced…
Bedsharing and breastfeeding — video
I thought you might enjoy this short video clip about the benefits of bedsharing to breastfeeding babies. It’s a really short clip and doesn’t talk about guidelines for safe bedsharing. For more about safety, check out Dr. James McKenna’s website.
Supporting breastfeeding in emergencies
Here’s a link to a free, on-line presentation by one of the world’s experts on this topic: Karleen Gribble. I found it informative without being at all dry. Here is what she says about the presentation: I recently gave a presentation at the Gold09 conference on infant feeding in emergencies and what individuals and organisations…
Harvard research: “Children Need Touching”
Here are the opening paragraphs from a 1998 article in the Harvard Gazette: America’s “let them cry” attitude toward children may lead to more fears and tears among adults, according to two Harvard Medical School researchers. Instead of letting infants cry, American parents should keep their babies close, console them when they cry, and bring…
Hand expression videos
Hand expression is a really useful skill for any breastfeeding mother to know. It’s great in the early days when babies can have a hard time latching on engorged breast. It’s handy when baby is older if you need a little bit of milk to leave for a bottle or if the pump you use…
Products worth knowing about
Update (7/12/2009): Happy Bambino is now carrying both Hygeia and Pumpin Pals so we’ve got a local source for both products! They also started carrying Ameda pumps. Mothers in the Madison area now have easy access to all the major quality pump options. (Hooray!) The majority of breastfeeding mothers that I see in the Madison…
Big can be Beautiful (but also challenging)
Larger ladies can have a harder time with pregnancy and breastfeeding. Despite intending to breastfeed, women with higher body mass index (BMI) wean earlier as a group. There seem to be more obstacles to breastfeeding for these mamas. To help them, here’s a website devoted to plus-size women and their babies: Kmom’s Plus-Size Pregnancy Index….
In defense of (real) food
Check out this Colbert Report with Michael Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food. (I’m sorry that I’m not techno savvy enough to embed this video.) The cool thing is this: Pollan says, “We have been trying to synthesize breast milk for 150 years, and we still don’t know how to do it. And…
Gift #1: A special relationship
There are very few times in our lives where we experience that feeling of falling in love. It’s that happier-than-anything feeling that someone else is perfect for us. It may be romance, it may be that new best friend, it may be that little baby that we’ve brought into our family. Part of this perfect…
Madison Breastfeeding Help 