It is the dream of every parent of young babies and toddlers to get some sleep. Endless longing to be able to sleep influences how people feel about breastfeeding since they attribute much of their lack of sleep to breastfeeding. “Sleep issues” are among the top
Modern medicine, in a worthwhile desire to avoid problems associated with poor eating habits, has developed rules about the feeding of food to babies that have made eating food a complicated, frightening and a tiresome exercise. These rules are even more complicated when parents must choose
Many physicians as well as anti-breastfeeding activists manage to turn logic on its head and push the notion that what is good about breastfeeding is, in fact, bad for the mother or baby. Two examples follow. 1. Breastmilk contains antibodies that protect the baby against infection Unlike
Many mothers are now being advised to feed the baby on one breast at a feeding only. Though the number who email me about breastfeeding problems varies from day to day, usually, on any given day about 1 in 4 of mothers experiencing breastfeeding problems
Cet article de Jack Newman et Andrea Polokova est paru en deux parties sous le titre How birthing practices affect breastfeeding (première partie : deuxième partie : ). Pourquoi tant de mères ont des difficultés à allaiter ? C’est en grand partie parce que, bien qu’on pense généralement
Domperidone can be very useful to increase the mother’s milk supply and, more importantly, milk flow from the mother to the baby. An important point: If all mothers had the best start with breastfeeding, from the very start, having as few interventions as is reasonable during labour
Why would a baby not be getting enough breastmilk? Almost always, the most important reason is that the baby is not latched on as well as he could be. If the baby is not latched on well, he does not stimulate the breast as well
Why do so many mothers have difficulty with breastfeeding? A large part of the reason is that though we tend to believe that breastfeeding should be natural, most people, particularly most obstetricians, have not yet understood that the “unnatural” way women give birth in much of
It is usual and normal for babies to become jaundiced in the days after birth. But the bilirubin that causes the yellow colour of the baby’s skin is protective (it’s an antioxidant) and too often we treat higher than average bilirubin levels in a sort
See a separate discussion of So Called Breastmilk Jaundice It is usual and normal for babies to become jaundiced in the first few days after birth. But the bilirubin that causes the yellow colour of the baby’s skin is protective, it’s an antioxidant (the two links take you to