Lots of families wonder if things in the environment (including medications, drugs, diseases, and chemicals) are safe for babies before birth and during breastfeeding. Here’s another resource to help us answer these questions: OTIS provides health care professionals and their patients with up-to-date scientific information regarding the effects of maternal exposures to environmental agents on…
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Yet another reason to breastfeed
If you haven’t already seen the news about contaminated baby formula in China here’s the basic information: SHIJIAZHUANG, China — Police arrested 12 more people Thursday as China expanded a crackdown in a scandal involving tainted milk powder as a fourth death was announced and more than 6,200 other babies were sick from the powder….
Positive Thinking
While I know that positive thoughts don’t solve everything they can make you feel better — and they’re a lot more fun than worrying. Here’s a video with happy images and statements about pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. Enjoy!
Clarifying breastfeeding and the law
Understanding how laws affect pretty much any part of our lives can be complicated. When it comes to breastfeeding, mothers mostly don’t need to worry about how laws might affect them. Once in a while, though, it becomes important — maybe because of a call to jury duty, a problem with nursing in public, or…
Breasts everywhere…
Just for fun here’s a link to a review of a book collection of photos of everyday objects that might remind you of breasts. On the serious side, it’s a bit of commentary on how our society sees and thinks about breasts (and how little we think of them feeding babies).
Natural Pain Relief
We got the news (not surprising to experienced nursing mothers) a few years ago that both breastfeeding and sugar water relieve pain for babies. Now a new study shows that breastfeeding works better than the sugar water. This is a great piece of information to share with health care providers that might be reluctant to…
Full text of Madison’s breastfeeding ordinance
I went and looked up the actual text of the ordinance that protects mothers that are nursing in public. Here it is in case you’re interested: Not withstanding any other provision of law, a mother or her surrogate may breastfeed her child and may express her breastmilk in any location, public or private, except the…
Classic wisdom from LLL
I was reading Ruth’s La Leche League of Wisconsin newsletters from the 1960’s and found some gems. Here’s one of them: Our society is becoming so efficient, we’re so organized… and our living so fast that the whole idea of what mothering is all about is sort of really being lost…It is so important that…
Colors of baby poop…
Its amazing how a topic that lots of us never wanted to think or talk about becomes so important when you’ve got a new baby. Baby poop is one of those things. It comes in all kinds of textures and colors and it lets parents know that their babies are getting enough to eat. Here’s…
Sleep Study
So we all think we know what sleep is like for families with little babies. But do we really know or do we just have cultural stereotypes and individual experiences? Tom Hale (author of Medications and Mother’s Milk) and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett (author of The Hidden Feelings of Motherhood) are trying to learn more. If you’re…
Madison Breastfeeding Help 