"The overwhelming majority of women will be able to breast-feed and breast-feed successfully if they're given support," Piwoz said.
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Considering the time it takes to breast-feed a child, and the costs associated with that time, should be part of every woman's calculations when she decides whether or not to breast-feed her baby.
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That's also one place to breast-feed if you want privacy.
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We should also give their mothers the opportunity to breast-feed.
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All I wanted to do was breast-feed, and then I couldn't.
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She taught me how to bathe, breast feed and soothe my new baby.
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In the episode's final scene, she lets Offred hold and breast-feed Holly.
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Not even if you give birth vaginally, breast-feed exclusively and eat well.
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Brown Anderson's right to breast-feed her child is also a legal one in Nevada and 48 other states where statutes explicitly allow women to breast-feed in any public or private place, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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And, as one viral photo shows, there's more than one way to breast-feed.
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"If we want the most natural and organic nutrition then breast feed," says Corkin.
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An Australian senator became the first woman to breast-feed her infant in Parliament.
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I am trying to follow my pediatrician's advice to breast-feed for a year.
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Contrary to popular belief, not every woman who wants to breast-feed is able to.
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Pumping breast milk can be a challenge for working moms who choose to breast feed.
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If they do breast-feed, they can be shamed if they do so in public.
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"Women who expose their breasts to breast-feed are asked to hide themselves," it said.
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Having to breast-feed in fear of being judged by others seriously compounds the difficulty, though.
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There are also wide-ranging emotional or psychological reasons women may choose not to breast-feed.
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The early food group continued to breast-feed while introducing both allergenic and nonallergenic solid foods.
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Our culture needs to do a better job of supporting women who breast-feed, she said.
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You will pretend you can breast-feed twice a night and still function normally at work.
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She would breast-feed Sariya, but she was not sure if she was producing enough milk.
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More recent studies have found that mothers who breast-feed are at lower risk for developing aggressive hormone receptor negative breast cancers and that those who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy are less likely to go on to develop diabetes later in life if they breast-feed.
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To put some numbers to it, the study found that of the babies of a group of mothers encouraged to breast-feed, 22008 percent had at least one episode of diarrhea, compared with 13 percent of the children of mothers who weren't encouraged to breast-feed.
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It's a situation most new mothers have faced: the need to breast-feed their babies in public.
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As the small group of parents chatted in the living room, Brown Anderson began to breast-feed.
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I feel fortunate that I am able to still breast-feed but with the help of formula.
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A 2012 study in the American Sociological Review by Phyllis L. F. Rippeyoung and Mary C. Noonan found that mothers who breast-feed for six months or longer experience more severe and more prolonged earnings losses than mothers who formula feed or breast-feed for shorter than six months.
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Babies with the genetic disorder galactosemia, which impairs digestion of a sugar in milk, should not breast-feed.
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The study's authors said that the woman was able to exclusively breast-feed the infant for six weeks.
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Mothers who breast-feed or pump are at lower risk for breast and ovarian cancers, diabetes and hypertension.
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While the decision to breast-feed is often framed as a personal choice, most women have no choice.
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Do what is best for your family, and don't put unnecessary pressure on yourself to exclusively breast-feed.
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Women with paid leave breast-feed their babies twice as long as women not able to take paid leave.
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Beyoncé revealed she would go back to her trailer to breast-feed her twins in between rehearsals, Buzzfeed reported.
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"I think its perfectly fine for women who breast feed in public," someone replied, in a now-deleted tweet.
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When Rebecca Wanosik was asked to breast-feed another woman's baby in an emergency, her immediate answer was yes.
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Ladies, did you know, that you DO NOT have to be the birth mother in order to breast-feed?
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It's also possible that parents who exclusively breast-feed their babies are more scrupulous about a healthy diet generally.
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They feel more pressure to breast-feed, to do enriching activities with their children and to provide close supervision.
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His first product, an infant cereal for mothers who couldn't breast-feed, combined cow's milk, wheat flour and sugar.
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Keturah Redmond hoped to breast-feed after giving birth to her first child in an Atlanta hospital in 2012.
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So researchers are left mainly with observational studies, which examine the babies whose mothers have chosen to breast-feed.
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But the truth is I've tried and tried and tried to breast feed only and it wasn't working for me.
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If they don't breast-feed, they can be shamed for supposedly not putting in enough effort for their child's health.
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During a baptism held inside the Sistine Chapel, Pope Francis encouraged mothers to breast-feed after several babies started to cry.
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"Some people choose to pump in advance, and give the baby breastmilk from before and not [breast]feed them," she says.
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The picture has improved a bit since then—babies now breast-feed a little longer—but the over-all pattern holds.
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"Everyone should not have to breast-feed, but I also have the view that breast-feeding is so important," Sutton said.
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It wasn't even when her doctor told her she must choose: run 120 miles each week or breast-feed her son.
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It may be that women who breast-feed longer may be more health conscious in general than those who do not.
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Women who choose to breast-feed babies who are less than 20163 months old have to express milk every few hours.
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"When your mother hasn't breast-fed, it's hard to get that support to breast-feed your own child," Dr. McKinney said.
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And the divisive HBO series "Girls" ended for good, with an image of Lena Dunham trying to breast-feed her baby.
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This is not so in families that breast-feed: Nursing requires the mother to bear the time cost of feeding the baby.
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"I'm sure just having someone who knows what it's like to breast-feed or give birth is helpful on a set."Yes.
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By the end, his face was covered in an overgrown mustache, and he was attempting to breast-feed a golden retriever puppy.
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And Larissa Waters, the first Australian to breast-feed a child in the Legislature, quit after learning that she held dual citizenship.
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"I only get an hour for lunch," Ms. Devi said, prioritizing her youngest and unbuttoning her blouse to breast-feed the baby.
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"You mothers give your children milk and even now, if they cry because they are hungry, breast-feed them, don't worry," he said.
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It also goes deep on women's health, with plots that include Jane's struggle to breast-feed and a crisp, unapologetic story about abortion.
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The same analysis estimated that increasing the amount of time mothers breast-feed could prevent more than 22,000 breast cancer deaths each year.
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Most studies of breast-feeding are biased by the fact that women who breast-feed are typically different from those who do not.
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These range from how to improve family leave policies to why American mothers still don't have the right to breast-feed at work.
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Dr. Jennifer L. Young, a pediatrician, recommended that babies breast feed, drink from the bottle or use a pacifier during ascent and descent.
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Our bodies may release it when we kiss (and mean it), when women breast-feed, even when people hang out with good friends.
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However, they add, while advice and encouragement by obstetric professionals are recommended, no woman should be coerced, pressured or unduly influenced to breast-feed.
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Women who breast-feed have a lower than average risk of developing breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease later in life.
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She knew she had a right to breast-feed in public and was under the impression that most New Yorkers were accepting of it.
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So while meeting these women's nutritional needs is urgent for a host of other reasons, to breast-feed they may just need more support.
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I would dance, and go off to the trailer, and breast-feed the babies, and the days I could, I would bring the children.
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Ms. Ayala, who is breast-feeding a daughter 16 months old, said she sought permission from the hospital staff to breast-feed the baby.
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And it all devolves from there: I know about this experience because I fall into the category of mothers who did not breast-feed.
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Women who breast-feed are also less likely to develop ovarian cancer, Type 2 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis and may have improved cardiovascular health.
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Her book, "The Tender Gift: Breastfeeding," published in 1973, was a product of her own devastation at not being able to breast-feed, she wrote.
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It coincided with the Global Big Latch On, which encourages women to gather at registered locations around the world to breast-feed their children simultaneously.
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Why is breast-feeding often labeled a "free" option for women, even though following a pediatrician's advice to breast-feed comes at significant economic cost?
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Newborns demand frequent feedings, on an irregular schedule, and it is hard for mothers to breast-feed or rest if they return to work immediately.
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Yes, Cherokee women could rest assured that their female family would take the baby in immediately and breast-feed it should they die in childbirth.
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Poor Eden, who has been raised to view motherhood as her greatest potential achievement, dreams of the day when she'll breast-feed her own baby.
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"I want to get my kids discharged because I need to breast-feed them," said Ms. Logbo, a 13-year-old Liberian living in Guangzhou.
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Dr. Minkin estimates that in her experience, 20 percent of her patients tried to breast-feed but failed for at least one of these reasons.
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Women who breast-feed are less likely to develop breast cancer, ovarian cancer, Type 246 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis and may have improved cardiovascular health.
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My desire to breast-feed was belittled by the nurse in charge: "You can always feed them formula," she said dismissively as I dissolved in tears.
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They argue that without paid leave, they're faced with a choice to either stay home to breast-feed their babies or earn income for their families.
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In the United States there are also class, age and racial disparities among women who breast-feed, with affluent white women most likely to do so.
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"When we were picking our pediatrician during pregnancy, I got a surprising amount of resistance about my choice not to breast-feed," Ms. Mullen-McWilliams said.
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"You mothers give your children milk and even now, if they cry because they are hungry, breast-feed them, don't worry," he said at the time.
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The female constable decided to breast-feed him while other officers hovered outside waiting for the starving baby to cry out and assure them he was fine.
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The English actress accepted the role while she was pregnant, and wound up having to breast-feed on set, a decision she admits was rough at times.
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Most had been born to mothers who had fled the war and were too disturbed or malnourished to breast-feed normally, said Ali al-Faqih, a nurse.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics calls human breast milk the "normative standard" for infant feeding, and recommends that mothers breast-feed their babies exclusively for six months.
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A medical student, Claire Lamneck, said she had seen an armed agent watching a teenage mother breast-feed her baby at Diamond Children's Medical Center in Tucson.
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So if someone asks you why you didn't want to breast-feed, just give them a Larry David-esque, "Eh, not for me," and change the subject.
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When my son refused for weeks to breast-feed, I had the resources to see a lactation consultant and the time to try and try and try again.
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Ultimately, the obstetric guidelines conclude, a well-informed woman is best qualified to decide whether to breast-feed exclusively, combine breast with formula-feeding or feed only formula.
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"Mothers take more risks during pregnancy and are less likely to breast-feed and to provide cognitive stimulation for latter-born children," the researchers said in an abstract.
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The causes include diarrhea spread by dirty hands and open defecation; a failure to breast-feed; and foods deficient in iron, vitamin A, folic acid and other micronutrients.
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Babies aren't the only ones who appear to reap health benefits from breast-feeding; research has found that mothers who breast-feed also enjoy better long-term health.
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"What it really says is that we need more young women in Parliament so that when we breast-feed our babies it's not considered news," Ms. Waters said.
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Beyond expanded leave, Mr. Carter announced that the Pentagon would increase child care services and establish some 3,600 rooms where new mothers could breast-feed at military installations worldwide.
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A new generation of moms is running for office, and these women are even more unapologetic than I was about the need to breast-feed, as they should be!
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When three of the moms started to breast-feed their babies, a man sitting at the table next to them started taking pictures and making faces at the women.
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And yet, the rate of breast-feeding has been relatively stagnant for the past two decades, and the wealthier the country, the less likely mothers are to breast-feed.
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It is incredibly important to note right here that some people can't breast-feed for medical reasons, or they physically can't do it or don't feel comfortable breast-feeding.
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The CDC encourages women with certain diseases and conditions not to breast-feed, while other women run into issues such as low milk production, pain, or difficulty with latching.
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Oh God, that reminds me of the fact that our government representatives attacked an international group for endorsing the idea of encouraging mothers in developing countries to breast feed.
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"In 1957, pregnant with my first child, I told my doctor that I planned to breast-feed," Barbara Seaman, a writer and patients' rights advocate, recalled in an essay.
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But now a new movement called Fed is Best has arisen because of the pressure placed on women to exclusively breast-feed, sometimes to the detriment of their infants.
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"This creates a dilemma for pediatricians who want their patients to be breast-fed and worry that some mothers, if told not to use cannabis, may not breast-feed."
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If adopted, the policy would have recommended that children around the world breast-feed for six months, rather than the previous recommendation of four to six months, she said.
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Her mother, Yochevet, who is now deceased, said that she got to breast-feed her sister only once after giving birth to her in an Israeli hospital in 1950.
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Her stated goal was to make the mother happy regardless of how she chose to feed her baby, and to help those who wanted to breast-feed do so successfully.
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Facebook almost automatically removes women who breast feed their children and yet seems to shrug its shoulders over fake news, which might move an entire election, spreading on its network.
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She was trying to learn how to breast-feed and pump milk and calm her infant when she herself was in a panic, but nothing seemed to be going smoothly.
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Though families can visit babies in a NICU, and mothers can breast-feed them, the bright, stimulating atmosphere may worsen a baby's withdrawal symptoms, necessitating more drugs and longer treatment.
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Upper-middle-class moms have the means and the maternity leaves to breast-feed their babies at much higher rates than high school-educated moms, and for much longer periods.
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She told a story of one mother who took her baby to the emergency department and asked if she could breast-feed while the baby was having a procedure done.
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At one point, she held her infant daughter to her chest to breast-feed with one hand and checked her phone for updates on a work meeting with the other.
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Although the vast majority of states — 49 of them, plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands — allow women to breast-feed in public, a cultural resistance to the practice persists.
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Today, more than three-fourths of women start to breast-feed, although more than half end up weaning their babies sooner than they would have liked, often short of six months.
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After legally proving that "my body did not produce enough," she was granted access to Harper, who she continues to breast feed at 30 months, once a day during Maguire's visitations.
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"The reason goes back to the parents and the good decisions they're making, to immunize their children, to breast-feed their children, to not smoke around their children," Dr. Byington said.
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"We all want to have the same experiences as women," Maria Clifford, 38, a British transgender mother who has been using a surrogate to breast-feed her child, said on Thursday.
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"I wish I was that baby," he is said to have told Representative Michelle Ugenti-Rita, a Republican, when she explained she would have to leave a meeting to breast-feed.
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Dr. Smita Malhotra, a pediatrician who also struggled to breast-feed her children, said you do not owe anyone an explanation or any insight into your own difficult breast-feeding journey.
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Nursing mothers reduce their relative risk of breast cancer by 258 percent for every 12 months they breast-feed, in addition to a relative decrease of 7 percent for each birth.
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Khloe Kardashian Flaunts Hourglass Figure in Skintight Yeezy Style at 4th of July Party "It was so frustrating because for Kourt it was sooooooo easy for her to breast feed," Khloe wrote.
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But she says her husband, David Sierra, 52, a retired U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer and current public safety officer, is very supportive of her decision to breast feed and donate milk.
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Willow at CES Willow's $429.00 connected breast pump tracks milk volume, time and sessions Posted by TechCrunch on Thursday, January 5, 2017 The Willow breast pump lets you breast feed hands free.
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I drop around $50 every two weeks for a case of formula — I would probably spend more if I didn't also breast-feed; it's another $100 or so a month for diapers.
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But after hospital staff evaluated her risk factor for milk production problems, they had Landon continue to exclusively breast-feed even though he would cry unless he was on his mother's breast.
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The Delta female pilots are seeking a leave policy that would let mothers stay home for six months with pay to breast-feed newborns, and up to two years of unpaid leave.
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Bedside sleepers — also called co-sleepers or bassinets — take up less space than full-size cribs and can make it easier to care for or breast-feed your baby during the night.
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In the title story, a young mother begins to breast-feed the devil — it resembles a "mutant red raccoon" — after making a deal with it to secure the health of her son.
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Some of the issues seem easy — making sure rehearsal breaks are long enough for nursing mothers to breast-feed or pump, for example — but women are sometimes reluctant to ask for accommodation.
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Just over half knew before they gave birth that breast-feeding reduced the risk of breast cancer, and over a third of those said the information influenced their decision to breast-feed.
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Two years ago, as he baptized 33 babies at the same ceremony, Pope Francis encouraged mothers to nurse their crying infants, using the Italian word for breast-feed, "allattateli," according to Reuters.
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Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages was the first person to breast-feed on the chamber floor, and Senator Julia Salazar is the first democratic socialist, as well as one of the youngest-ever senators.
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Mothers are encouraged to breast-feed infants even in areas where Zika virus is found, as evidence suggests the benefits outweigh any theoretical risks of infection via breast milk, the new guidelines advised.
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Mothers of premature babies who cannot latch onto the breast for feeding, and those who otherwise struggle to breast-feed, are also "a huge and growing population of exclusive pumpers," Ms. D'Ignazio said.
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I wait it out for five minutes, pee, grab my phone, and head to the nursery, where I breast-feed him while checking email, Facebook, texts, and then change and dress the baby.
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Ultimately, my one regret from the first few precious months after his birth is not that I failed to breast-feed him, but that I spent so much time explaining why I wasn't.
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And these women tended to breast-feed for much longer — 13 months on average — than women who did not know about the health implications, who breast-fed for only nine months on average.
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In the very last shot of the series, the baby finally latches on to Hannah's nipple to breast-feed, and we see this moment of joy and relief and epiphany on her face.
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Add it all up, and a family can save more than $500 by following the World Health Organization's recommendation to breast-feed a child for the first six months of his or her life.
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These include making sure your child receives Prevnar 13, the pneumococcal vaccine, and the flu vaccine when they are recommended, trying to breast-feed exclusively for the first six months and avoiding cigarette smoke.
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She said she had spent $40 last month for a few spoonfuls of sugar for her 19-year-old daughter, who had passed out, and the baby her daughter was trying to breast-feed.
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All of this is why experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and The American Academy of Pediatrics encourage new mothers to breast-feed their newborns exclusively for the first six months of life.
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The exchange brings Hannah back home, where Grover -- after refusing to breast feed -- finally latches on, providing a ray of hope that the series and its protagonist, a self-proclaimed "quitter," haven't quite earned.
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A senior scientific adviser to the Office on Women's Health in the department at that time said that it was risky not to breast-feed, and compared not breast-feeding to smoking during pregnancy.
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Helping mothers to breast-feed takes a multifaceted approach, including advancing public policies like paid family leave, access to quality child care, break time and a location other than a bathroom for expressing milk.
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But often the biggest problem is that women do breast-feed but don't start soon after birth, or on hot days they give the baby water, or they introduce other foods before six months.
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"These women tend to be advantaged," she said, and to take better care of themselves during pregnancy; they were less likely to smoke and more likely to breast-feed, compared to the younger mothers.
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The actress, who is pregnant with her second child, not only defended her decision to breast-feed wherever she wants, she also stood up for every mother's approach to the increasingly touchy subject of nursing.
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Let me just say right here that this is not a story on the benefits of breast-feeding or a push to make the case that "breast is best" and encourage women to breast-feed.
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Williams explained that she, as mother herself, would rather go in the car to breast-feed her son than do it in public — later admitting that she only breast-fed her son for two weeks.
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For many women like Ms. Valentine, finding a comfortable place to nurse a child is not easy; although they have a right to breast-feed anywhere, many say they resort to closets or bathroom stalls.
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During pregnancy, women trying to decide whether to breast-feed deserve to be informed about both its benefits and barriers and be given an opportunity and assistance to find ways around any obstacles, the guidelines state.
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In the group of lesbian mothers that Ms. Goldberg researched, most of the nonbiological mothers, because they could not do things like breast-feed, said they deliberately took on other responsibilities, like bath time or housework.
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It's an unusual combination of autobiography, diplomatic history, moral argument and manual on how to breast-feed a child with one hand while talking to Secretary of State John Kerry on a cellphone with the other.
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In May, she made headlines around the world by becoming the first Australian to breast-feed a child in the federal Parliament, for which she was praised by Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook.
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I just finished Deborah Crombie's "Garden of Lamentations," the most recent Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novel, and stayed up far too late for someone who has to wake up early to breast-feed my son, Aidan.
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And I'm here to tell you, if a person's not allowing you to breast-feed at work or making appropriate accommodations at work, we can pass this law, but you don't want to work for that guy.
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The United States does not provide mandatory paid maternity leave, as other countries do, and states have actually needed to pass laws in order to protect a woman's right to breast-feed in public and at work.
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Across a wide variety of studies, there seems to be a sizable effect — perhaps a 20 percent to 30 percent reduction in the risk of breast cancer for women who breast-feed for longer than 12 months.
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And while data is scarce, one 1990 study found that 15 percent of mothers who tried to breast-feed were unable to do so three weeks postpartum, with up to 5 percent struggling with insufficient milk supply.
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In many past studies, it was hard to know whether some of the differences between breast-fed and bottle-fed infants could be attributed to other factors that affected who chose to breast-feed and who didn't.
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Conflicting statements to police Rans told police that she brought the infant to bed to breast feed her in the early hours of the morning and that they both fell asleep facing each other, the affidavit says.
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"It was especially wonderful because I was able to breast-feed, take breaks to see my kids, and I felt I was able to be very involved with what was going on in their classrooms," she said.
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Pope Francis encouraged women attending Mass at the Sistine Chapel on Sunday to breast-feed in public, telling them they could calm their crying babies by nursing them just as the Virgin Mary nursed the baby Jesus.
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Wet nursing, which began as early as 2000 B.C., was once a widely accepted option for mothers who could not or did not want to breast-feed, but it faced criticism during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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"If you want to breast-feed in hope of increasing cognitive functioning scores, you may find some benefits in the early years," said the lead author, Seungmi Yang, an assistant professor of epidemiology at McGill University in Montreal.
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This is not the first time that the pope has supported a woman's right to breast-feed in public — or in the Sistine Chapel, an ornate room decorated by Michelangelo where popes are elected in closed-door conclaves.
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SYDNEY, Australia — In May, she made headlines around the world by becoming the first Australian to breast-feed a child in the federal Parliament, for which she was praised by Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook.
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There were plenty who were as furious as the breast-feeding mothers and pointed to California and Oregon laws, which allow women to breast-feed in any public or private location, with the exception of someone else's private home.
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This should include whether or not you plan to breast-feed, so when you deliver, that information will be clearly expressed on your prenatal form, a medical record of your prenatal history your doctor should provide to the hospital.
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But the greatest hero of them all must be Emily Baer, who outran dozens of elite male ultramarathoners in 2007 to finish eighth overall at the Hardrock 100 — despite stopping to breast-feed her baby at the aid stations.
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In the early 1980s, Dr. Raphael and a team she fielded also found that many poor and malnourished women in third world nations were physically unable to breast-feed or were too preoccupied with the basics of survival to do so.
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Because some people's discomfort with public breast-feeding may stem from their own insecurities about breast-feeding or a feeling that the "breast is best" crowd is passing judgment on those who choose not to breast-feed or those who can't.
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Parents can hold their children during the procedure, breast-feed or give them a sweet solution (or a lollipop for older children) to suck on, distract them with a song or breathing exercises, and use a topical numbing cream if needed.
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The work environment presents a number of challenges to expecting and new mothers in particular, who have to find time for numerous medical appointments and, if they are choosing to breast feed once their baby has arrived, breaks to pump.
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Over the past few decades, medical experts have strongly encouraged women to breast-feed, resulting in 83 percent of U.S. mothers reporting exclusive breast-feeding rates immediately after birth, per 2017 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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For Kelly Mullen-McWilliams, a writer based in Honolulu and mother of a 2-year-old, a history of traumatic sexual encounters, combined with her predisposition toward depression and anxiety, led her to make the decision not to breast-feed.
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I briefly toyed with the idea of writing an earnest, overly involved Facebook post explaining my decision to stop trying to breast-feed, or making a "#DontAskAboutMyBreasts" sticker to wear on my jacket when I was out with my baby.
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The mothers — who must remain nearby to breast-feed their babies every few hours — stay outside, finding shade under a sprawling tree when the weather is good or sleeping in a tent (erected during a cholera outbreak) when it rains.
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Accordingly, the new guidelines urge policy changes that "protect the right of a woman and her child to breast-feed," including "paid maternity leave, on-site child care, break times for expressing milk," and a place "other than a bathroom" to do so.
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"Many of the mothers are having difficulty with breast-feed(ing), and they, sort of, use formula milk, and (they) don't really appreciate the benefits of breast-feeding because the media promotes formula milk," said Joy Reyes Eugenio, who participated in the event.
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In a post submitted to the Love What Matters Facebook page, mom Ashle Potter wrote a letter expressing her support for all other moms, whether they breast-feed or bottle-feed, whether they're working moms or stay-at-home moms, and more.
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If we know -- based on actual scientific studies -- that breast-feeding can provide health benefits to mother and baby, why aren't we doing everything we possibly can to make it easier and more socially acceptable for women who choose to breast-feed?
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"A mother may breast-feed in any location, public or private, where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether the nipple of the mother's breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast-feeding," the statute says.
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It's funny how quick we are to judge other people's parenting -- moms who breast-feed too long are "overindulgent"; dads who are too involved in their kids' sports careers are putting the youths' lives in jeopardy out of narcissism and personal gain.
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As you can see, it contrasts the imagined experiences of working dads who breast-feed (turning breast-pumping into a macho sport or competition) with the experience that working moms frequently experience (pumping in a closet alone as male colleagues shy away in disgust).
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"Malnutrition and poverty are the precise settings where you absolutely do need to breast-feed," Dr. Michele Barry, senior associate dean for global health and director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford School of Medicine, told The New York Times.
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Twelve years ago, during the George W. Bush administration, the Department of Health and Human Services promoted breast-feeding in a public health campaign that suggested that failing to breast-feed would be as bad for your baby as riding a mechanical bull while pregnant.
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While some women are unable to breast-feed, cannot make enough milk, have medical conditions that prevent them from breast-feeding, or choose not to, the consensus of most mainstream medical organizations is that "breast is best" when it comes to infant nutrition and health.
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For many mothers who wanted to breast-feed but found that it didn't work out for them, being asked whether or not you're breast-feeding can be re-traumatizing, even if the person who asks the question has only the best intentions at heart.
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" Leah opened up about the uncertainty and second-guessing that can come with trying to breast-feed, writing, "we trusted our bodies to grow our babies for 9 months and now we have to trust our body to supply the nourishment for our babes growth & development.
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At Delta, a group of women pilots have banded together through a private Facebook page and have approached their union with formal proposals for paid maternity leave — unheard-of at the major airlines — because they say they would like to stay home to breast-feed their babies.
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Sinosphere ANREN, China — To many Chinese, Liu Wencai is the archetype of the despotic landlord from pre-Communist days, one who exploited his tenants, tortured those who fell behind on rent in a "water dungeon" and forced new mothers to breast-feed him as a longevity therapy.
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When a transgender woman told doctors at a hospital in New York that she wanted to breast-feed her pregnant partner's baby, they put her on a regimen of drugs that included an anti-nausea medication licensed in Britain and Canada but banned in the United States.
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Nevertheless, this news about the microbiome, emerging from studies done in the past few years, taps into a fraught issue for many women: medical recommendations and societal pressure to breast-feed, combined with policies, or physical problems, that often make it all but impossible to do so.
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Yep. If you decide that you do not want to breast-feed before you give birth, you should make that clear to your gynecologist well before you deliver, so the doctor can communicate your wishes to the hospital, Dr. Alyssa Dweck, a gynecologist based in New York, said.
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And then she slips into stubborn self-absorption: She gets frustrated with her baby for refusing to breast-feed, blames her mother for her shortcomings, storms away from her house and child, loses her pants, and returns late at night to finally connect emotionally and physically with the baby.
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When a baby is finding it difficult to breast-feed, as McKeever's newborn did, syringe feeding is an alternate method to make sure that the baby gets colostrum, the concentrated milk that is produced in a mother's mammary glands during pregnancy and is expressed in the earliest days of breast-feeding.
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Nonetheless, there is a connection between a culture of violence against women and a breast-obsessed society that is scandalized when women's breasts escape the control of the screen, Photoshop manipulation or artfully exaggerated cleavage to breast-feed in a public space or participate in a relaxed afternoon at the beach.
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It risks ignoring many of the important questions that badly need to be raised: on equal pay for equal work, on age-based discrimination, on the under-representation of women in top executive positions, on designated places to breast-feed in the workplace, on treatment of pregnant employees, and the list goes on.
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She has been forced to justify abbreviating her trip to the Pacific Islands Forum on the island of Nauru from three days to one, flying separately from her foreign affairs minister, Winston Peters, on an Air Force jet — at a cost of about $50,000 in American dollars — so that she could breast-feed her daughter.
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"We really don't know what it is about breast-feeding, whether it's something in the milk, whether it has to do with increased physical contact between lactating mother and nursing baby, or if just the time it takes to breast-feed means increased opportunities for verbal exchange between mother and baby," Dr. Kramer said.
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The benefits of breast-feeding for both moms and babies are hard to overstate: Research suggests breast-fed infants will go on to have lower risks of developing health conditions like asthma and Type 2 diabetes, while other research shows that moms who breast-feed end up with a lower risk of certain types of breast cancer.
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It affects up to 20% of people who breast-feed per year, often within the first three months of breast-feeding, and can be caused by a blocked milk duct, or bacteria entering the breast, as well as stress and fatigue, pressure on the breast from a too-tight bra, missed feedings, or poor hand or breast pump hygiene.
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"This adds to the burgeoning evidence that when we make it easier for mothers to breast-feed, we make mothers and babies healthier," said Dr. Alison M. Stuebe, an expert on breast-feeding who is the medical director of lactation services at UNC Health Care in Chapel Hill, N.C., and was not involved in the study.
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The book's title story involves a new mother, Rae, who makes a deal with the Devil — if she agrees to breast-feed him every night, he'll keep her baby safe from harm — but while the specifics of her situation are unique, her terror at the possibility of something happening to her baby will be familiar to any parent.
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The good news is that these are lives we know how to save: Babies should start breast-feeding within an hour of birth, breast-feed exclusively for the first six months of life without any other food or liquid, and then continue breast-feeding with complementary food until they are at least two years old, according to the World Health Organization.
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As the leading author of new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. Stuebe insists that, given timely information, professional and workplace support, and hands-on help when needed, many more women would breast-feed their babies, and do so exclusively for the first half year of life, as recommended by the college, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization.
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"Malnutrition and poverty are the precise settings where you absolutely do need to breast-feed, because that's the setting where access to safe and clean water for reconstituting powdered formula is often impossible to find," said Dr. Michele Barry, senior associate dean for global health and director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health in the Stanford School of Medicine, in response to the president's tweet.
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For women who need to breast-feed in the night, and are concerned that they may fall asleep while nursing, Dr. Goodstein suggested, stay in bed but clear the bed of pillows, loose blankets, comforters — and try to stay awake so that you can put the baby back into a "safe sleep environment," that is, the bassinet or crib that is not the parental bed.
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" Both cases work against the narrative that allergens should be avoided by infants—which echoes Baker's own sentiments: "One of the responses was the thought that what if we stopped feeding these foods to kids, and they just breast-feed and avoided all foods until they are a year of age, [it] will prevent the development of allergy," says Baker, "and in fact that sort of became a dogma.
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