You know breastfeeding is sacred and beyond the lens of scientific objectivity when one of our most respected science writers doesn’t seriously critique a study purported to show further “benefits” of breastfeeding. Even Carl Zimmer cannot resist the lure of lactation. At the risk of once again losing out on …
Valuable insights into modern parenting pop up in the least expected places. An essay on Virginia Woolf in The New Yorker highlighted an issue that plagues much of our formal knowledge about children and the parenting media, namely a bias towards the more easily identified and counted or as author …
The American Academy of Pediatrics has released new guidelines today recommending mothers continue breastfeeding through childbearing age, middle-age and well into menopause as long as mutually desired*. This policy change comes amidst a growing body of evidence that sustained breastfeeding protects women from a number of illnesses, conditions and cumbersome …
Did you catch the recent U.K. study questioning whether women should exclusively breastfeed for six months? Before anyone gets too excited, the authors still recommend breastfeeding for at least a year or until the child spits out the boob. The authors still recommend exclusive breastfeeding but suggest 4 months might be better …
Hold on to your chi chis, we now have a study, a published study, showing a downside to breastmilk. True it involves donor milk bought at milk-sharing websites (as opposed to milk banks). Still, some brave soul not only dared looked at the microbes floating around donor milk but gathered the …