Does My Gut Health Affect My Breastfed Baby? Q: How does my gut health affect my breastfeed baby and breastfeeding affect my baby’s gut health? My baby has a lot of food sensitivities which I have now realized I am also having a reaction to these foods too. There’s not much info out there on […]
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How to Balance Breastfeeding and Solid Foods
How Long to Breastfeed a Picky Eater? My still-nursing 20-month-old toddler isn’t a great eater. He will only eat the same dozen or so foods, refuses to try anything new, and won’t eat any vegetables. It’s causing tension between me and my hubby. He strongly believes that if I stopped breastfeeding our son, then he […]
Producing Milk for Breastfeeding
Tips to Produce More Milk Supply When Breastfeeding My milk supply doesn’t seem to be very abundant, so I’m concerned I’m not producing enough milk for my baby. Should I be worried I won’t have enough milk for my baby? I was told to pump some every day to stimulate my milk supply and produce […]
How to Feel Confident Breastfeeding in Public
The Stigma of Breastfeeding in Public Question: What’s the best way to deal with the social stigma of nursing toddlers/preschoolers? My baby is only 9 months, but he looks like he’s closer to one year old. I feel like I’m already starting to get weird vibes in public from some uninformed people. I want to […]
Nutrition While Breastfeeding
Question: Do I need to be eating differently for better nutrition while breastfeeding? What do you recommend is best to eat? Answer: Since you are eating for two, you need to eat healthier for more nutrition while breastfeeding. Most mothers need to eat an extra 300-500 nutritious calories per day. The top nutritional deficiency in […]
Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby and Mother
The Natural Benefits of Breastfeeding and Breast Milk Mothers and babies are the top national treasures in every country. And breastmilk is every country’s top natural resource. Science agrees. The incidence of nearly every serious disease you don’t want your child to get is lower the longer a baby is breastfed. From head-to-toe, a breastfed […]
Revised! The Breastfeeding Book
2018 Revised Edition! A fully updated version of the Dr. Sears guide to breastfeeding, a perennial parents’ favorite for nearly two decades. Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning by Martha Sears, RN and William Sears, MD Taking a realistic, contemporary approach, the Searses bring an age-old practice completely […]
Breastfeeding Rates Are Up
Breastfeeding Rates Are Up and Lives Are Being Saved Our newspapers are so full of dismal news that it’s uplifting to read some good news, especially about babies. The October 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics featured a fabulous article about one of the most successful government health programs on our […]
Support While Breastfeeding
Q&A: How to Find Balance While Breastfeeding How to best support you and your baby in those critical first months Q. I’m training to be a birth and postpartum doula in Toronto. I breastfeed my own three-month-old and I’m a huge advocate for its obvious benefits for both of us. I wonder, though, how you […]
Adjusting Sleeping and Breastfeeding Habits
Q&A on How to Adjusting your Child’s Sleeping and Breastfeeding Habits Q: My Son is 18 weeks, and I will be going back to work in 2 weeks. He is exclusively breastfed. In past months he has taken the rare bottle from Grandma or Dad, but it’s been at least a month now. He is […]
The Bond from Breastfeeding
New Study: The Bond in Breastfeeding Lasts Beyond Toddler Years Past studies have shown that breastfeeding has numerous benefits, one of which is the unique bond which it builds between mother and child. However, a new study has shown that the bond from breastfeeding may actually last longer than some previously had thought. The study, […]
Breastfeeding and Hydration
While you are breastfeeding you should drink extra water, but you don’t need to overdo it. Hydration while breastfeeding should follow the commonsense “in and out” principles of hydration: If you use more fluid, you must take more in. Since the average six-month-old consumes around 1 quart of breast milk daily and 90 percent of […]