It doesn’t have to be all or nothing
With breastfeeding is it all or nothing? When her breasts didn’t respond well to the breast pump this mom decided to aim to combination feed and still go for the natural duration of breastfeeding.
Baby Weight Workout
You’re busy taking care of everyone else but your health matters to them too. A simple workout you can do with baby!
The ever growing and adapting heart of a mother
Kerry Gilmartin from Bamboobies shares how her heart as grown and adapted through motherhood. “I’ve decided to try to embrace being ‘in the thick of it’ and I feed what is calling out to be fed – my babies, my husband, my business, my self and my soul – on a whim almost. I play it by ear and try to adapt each day. When it doesn’t feel like its working I try to ask for help – “Help! Over here! Send more resources quick!” I ask for a nap, quiet time with one child, a hike or a date.”
Sleeping with the enemy- PAHO of The World Health Organization accepts funding from Nestlé
How can the Pan American Health Offices of the World Health Organization accept funding from Nestlé when the company is a known violator for the orgs own Code of ethics? Is there a conflict of interests when the money is supposed to go toward fighting preventable diseases such as Why should we care and what can we do about it?
Surviving Holiday Breastfeeding
Travel, distractions, extended family, the holidays present some challenges for the breastfeeding pair. How to get through it with your sanity intact.
Supporting the Breastfeeding Family as a Whole
Prioritizing the mother or the baby in the breastfeeding support equation? Who is more important? If, by prioritizing the supporting the mother will the most vulnerable person in the mix, the infant, suffer? If, by prioritizing the baby could it end up backfiring if the mom doesn’t feel supported? What about other family members, do they factor in? Or are these the wrong questions? Could it be that instead of generalizations we need to embrace the breastfeeding family as a whole and how does that change the was we extend support?
