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 …
Many of you may be familiar with my friend Suzanne Barston, aka The Fearless Formula Feeder and now author of Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t published this fall by the University of California Press. In other words, Suzanne is …
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 …