Got sore nipples? Try tea bags, oatmeal or expressed breast milk. Low milk production? Beer and oatmeal. How often have we heard this breastfeeding advice passed down from nurses, nannies and every other person trying to help new mothers struggling to feed their babies. Just how common? Apparently 65% of the lactation …
Infant formula, letting babies cry it out and get this, letting kids play alone in their bedrooms pose significant dangers to children’s cognitive, emotional and social development. Just when I thought it was safe to indulge in some of the feel-good karma of the new year comes this parenting dreck in the form of a science news update from of all places …
Is a new mom just a set of breast milk-delivery devices? Excuse me for getting the wrong impression. It’s easy to forget a mom comes with a head and other features that sometime complicate the equation of what’s best for baby to say nothing of mom. It’s easy to forget …
Someday I might be able to stop talking about breastfeeding. Possibly not until my grand kids roll their eyes and start lactating. But until then I feel like someone’s gotta make sense of the claims*. Like the rest in the Tossing the Formula article last week that I didn’t get to in my original …
The benefits of breastfeeding are beyond question these days. In a front page article in today’s New York Times Science section, Pam Belluck’s Tossing the Formula reports on the formula crack-down in hospitals across the country. Public health officials claim such programs like New York City’s Latch On New York and all its Baby Friendly manifestations represent an …