Breastfeeding Benefits for Mothers
Breastfeeding is good for babies but it’s great for moms too. Here are some additional reasons to motivate you: 1. Helps shrink uterus after birth The baby’s suckling will help the uterus to shrink more quickly to its pre-pregnancy size. 2. Helps nursing moms lose weight after giving birth Breastfeeding burns about 500 extra calories a... [Read more...]
Breastfeeding Protects Against Swine Flu
As parents were have all recently been nervous about the H1N1 (swine) flu outbreaks, how it will affect our children and wondering how to protect them. The United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) “recommends breastfeeding as a critical strategy to prevent infection.” The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offeres guidance... [Read more...]
My Story
When I was 17 my mother took me to see a plastic surgeon about getting breast reduction. I was a 38DD, didn’t like my breast very much and struggled to find clothes that fit right. Before the surgery the doctor warned me that I may not be able to breastfeed as the milk ducts may be severed but at 17 that seemed a long way off and I wasn’t... [Read more...]
Celebrating my Second Year Nurniversary
Last week my son, Connor, turned two. My little baby is now a boy. I am celebrating my second year of breastfeeding him and am so happy and proud to have made it this far. I have written about how we started and we got to this point in My Story. Take a look if you haven’t done so yet. I am so happy to be here now where nursing is simple... [Read more...]
Boobies Without Borders
Salma Hayek arrived in Sierra Leone in September as a UNICEF ambassador with a mission to help fight tetanus, a leading cause of death in the country for mothers and their babies. Twenty one percent of infant deaths in the country are related to tetanus. Backed by sponsorship from Pampers, she was delivering vaccines which can prevent this fatal,... [Read more...]
Making the Most Out of Low Milk Supply
As many of you already know from My Story, I struggled with low milk supply when I first started nursing my son, Connor. Due to a breast reduction that I had when I was 17, I knew breastfeeding was likely to be a challenge, but I was totally unprepared for the frustrations that lay ahead and how to deal with them. There are many reasons why women... [Read more...]
Woman Nurses Dad to Health
Georgia Browne, a nursing mother, breastfeed her child but also pumps additional breast milk for her father which he adds to his daily cornflakes. Her father got terminal colon cancer a few years ago, and once she had her first child, she began expressing milk to help her father fight the cancer. She feeds her baby first and her dad gets any extra... [Read more...]
100 best companies for Working Mothers
WorkingMothers.com released their list of the 100 best companies of 2009. Nearly every state had a presence but New York state topped the list with 26 companies dwarfing the next state, Illinois that had seven. Industries particularly favorable for working mothers were financial services with 26 companies followed by health care with 20. Read More →
WIC clinic at Hickory Hollow Mall
WSMV is reporting that Antioch, Tenn. is joining a new trend that’s slowly happening across the country: More and more health clinics are opening up shop in, of all places, aging malls that have few stores. Metro Council has yet to approve the Metro Health Department’s plans to open a new women, infants and children — or WIC —... [Read more...]
Nursing in Public
Our children have the right to be breast fed anywhere and anytime. We, as mothers, should feel the freedom to feed them in public without the need to hurry off home which is often impractical and, especially for new moms, would have them chained to their homes for months on end. There has been a large push to promote breastfeeding worldwide over the... [Read more...]
