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Petition asks Sesame Street to bring back breastfeeding

 

Have you heard about the online petition to bring back breastfeeding on Sesame Street? 

The petition says: 

We are not asking Sesame Street to remove bottle feeding. We are asking that both ways of feeding babies be shown as normal.   If we normalize breastfeeding in our community, especially with our children, we can help raise a generation of breastfeeders which will support our economy, make for healthier children and lessen the risk of breast cancer for many nursing mamas!

 

Click here to read the rest of the article and to watch the wonderful videos-The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog

From “Need” to “Nice:” Best Gifts for the Breastfeeding Mother.

 

This is an older article but helps in this season to help choose the best gifts that mothers really want and need. 

This article gives links tomany other sites about great gifts as well.

To read article-The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog

A Babe’s Guide to Pumping

Source:http://mommymolecules.blogspot.com/2010/07/web-comic-boob-in-bottle.html

Whether pumping at work, pumping at home for the occasional night out, or pumping to protect milk production while managing breastfeeding challenges, many mothers these days use a breast pump at some point during their nursing relationship. Regardless of the reason, it’s important to have good information, so below are tips to help you ensure that things go smoothly.

 

Read rest of article for tips on making pumping work for you-Best For Babes

Milk banks facing “unprecedented” shortage

A while back I interviewed Pauline Sakamoto, director of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, on the Motherlove Blog. She talked about the increase in demand for donor milk over the last ten years, and how milk banks sometimes struggle to meet the demand.

But recently, as hospitals have rapidly been changing their policies to make donor milk the standard of care for  preterm babies under certain gestational ages and weights, the rate of increase has become even steeper.

Read more-The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog

6 Totally Selfish Reasons to Breastfeed

breastfeeding momWe hear a lot about all the benefits of breastfeeding for babies: how a mother’s milk adapts to her baby’s changing needs; how it’s rich in nutrients; how it contains antibodies that protect infants from everything from asthma to diabetes to obesity to SIDS; how it promotes bonding — and, heck, may even make kids smarter!

So, yeah, there are a ton of selfless reasons to breastfeed. But you know what? There are also a lot of totally selfish reasons to breastfeed, too.

For instance? Well, let’s see …

 

Read rest of article-The Stir

Article on hand expression

Breast pumping or hand expression may be recommended when newborns latch or suck poorly.  A recent trial found worse outcomes among mothers who used a breast pump in the early postpartum period. The objective of this study was to compare bilateral electric breast pumping to hand expression among mothers of healthy term infants feeding poorly at 12–36 h after
birth.

Read read of article

http://www.pqcnc.org/documents/milkwelldoc/PQCNCHandExpression.pdf

Postpartum Depression and Difficulty Breast-Feeding May Go Hand in Hand

Breast-feeding may be natural but that doesn’t mean it comes easily to every new mom. A new study in the August edition of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology finds that women who struggle to breast-feed in the first two weeks after giving birth are more prone to postpartum depression. Read More→

Top 5 Free Gifts for the Nursing Babe-to-Be | Best for Babes

One of the best things about breastfeeding is that when all goes right, and especially if you don’t have to return to work, it can be totally free — extras are optional. So when you have a friend who is expecting who plans on breastfeeding, she definitely needs your support and help preparing. However, this doesn’t have to come in the form of purchases, and in fact, it’s some of the things you can give her for free that will make the biggest difference.

via Top 5 Free Gifts for the Nursing Babe-to-Be | Best for Babes.

 

 

Are you that person to your breastfeeding moms?

La Leche League of North Carolina Breastfeeding and Parenting Conference

Trails and Trials: Pathways to Parenting

September 23-25, 2011
Sea Trail Resort
211 Clubhouse Rd
Sunset Beach, NC 28468

Featuring Guest Speaker Martha Sears!

Contact Info

Quite a gift, this World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding support and pump rentals to be covered by insurance, with no co-pay

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services adopted the recent recommendation of the Institute of Medicine, to require insurers to provide breastfeeding support and pump rentals, free of co-pays and other cost-sharing.

The guidelines state that the following must be covered by private insurance:  “Comprehensive lactation support and counseling, by a trained provider during pregnancy and/or in the postpartum period, and costs for renting breastfeeding equipment.”

The Department’s press release on the new policy says that “New health plans will need to include these services without cost sharing for insurance policies with plan years beginning on or after August 1, 2012.”

Not a bad way to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week!

From The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog