Standard health recommendations of exclusive breastfeeding for the baby’s first six months sound fine to many expectant mothers. But only 40.7 percent of U.S. mothers…
“Breastfeeding” may not be the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about football, but for many women fans, finding a quiet…
Four years in the making, Noemi Weis’ documentary of birth and breastfeeding around the world seeks to draw attention to the politics, commercialization, and controversies…
Many mothers pump and store their milk so that another caregiver can feed it to their baby in their absence. Figuring out the details of…
Pacifiers. Binkies. Dummies. No matter what you call them, it’s likely you’ll receive some for your baby before he’s even born. Should you use them?…
Obesity negatively impacts the health of women in many ways; for breastfeeding mothers, obesity has been linked to decreased intention to breastfeed, decreased initiation of…
“A mother may breast-feed any place where [she] is lawfully present,” Virginia’s new law promises. Other states have similar “Right to Breastfeed” laws in place.…
In a day when healthcare professionals and hospitals encourage women to breastfeed, a strange paradox exists: Common hospital birth practices that can sabotage breastfeeding are…
You have a plan for continuing to breastfeed after you return to work. You have made arrangements to express your milk while apart from your…
More than half of U.S. mothers work outside of the home during their infants’ first year. Being able to find a child care provider who…