There’s a lot to be said about having a baby. You’re new to breast feeding and the whole nine yards. You’re never sure if you’re doing the right thing when you’re making decisions about your child’s health, or even what times you should be breastfeeding them – and you feel isolated and often alone for [...]
African American women are at a higher risk for a more treatment-reistant form of breast cancer. It is actually a more rare form of breast cancer, but it is nonetheless a scary thing to be diagnosed with because it is known to be more agressive and much harder to treat successfully. Researchers say that they [...]
It makes perfect logical and evolutionary sense that a mother’s instincts are made stronger by another perfectly natural part of motherhood – breast feeding. Breast feeding mothers actually release more of the bonding hormone when they breast feed, so it is interesting that such a correlation has been made. Research has shown that mothers who [...]
Apparently, even though breast feeding is on the top of the list when it comes to important things that new mothers can do for their babies according to many top health experts, US hospitals are shockingly not doing all they can to promote it since there are so many health benefits to breastfeeding. When I [...]
This really takes the cake, or shall I say the cheese (sorry about that awful pun). Did you hear of how there was starting to be a budding market for dairy foods made with human breast milk? Yeah, that’s human, as in me and you, capable intelligent beings who can read this, our breast milk. [...]
An important decision new mothers need to decide is if they should breast or bottle feed their baby. Breast milk is nature’s way to nourish your baby. However if you don’t feel comfortable with breastfeeding, pumping is an alternate option. The baby will get all the benefits of breast feeding whether fed from the breast [...]
If you have decided to breast feed your child, you might find yourself worrying if you will have enough milk for your hungry baby. Don’t worry too much, that is quite a common concern. Fortunately there are things that you can do to ensure that you have enough breast milk for your hungry child. Let’s [...]
In a total reversal from previous advice on what drugs are safe and are not safe to take while breast feeding your infant, a new study has found that strong painkillers that can only be attained via prescription may be safe – at least in small doses, to take while breast feeding. They found that, [...]
Well, women who spend a lot of money on supplying their young children with healthy breast milk can finally get a tax break for doing so, as long as the expenditure, combined with other eligible medical costs, exceeds a certain percentage of that person’s income. The likelihood of that may be low if you have [...]
There has long been a debate on when the earliest time is that you should wean your child off of breast milk and start them on “solid” foods, which of course by no means are the solid foods we are used to, but rather pureed versions of those solid foods. This is because a baby’s [...]
Breast News Magazine newsflash! We have a new page, part of our new initiative to provide new mothers with the best and most updated information on breast feeding their babies. We now have a breast feeding section on this blog dedicated to this subject since it is such an important topic these days. There are [...]
I had no idea that this was a true statistic until I read recently that black women are statistically much less likely to breast feed than other nationalities of women. I really didn’t know why this would be, so I dug a little further and read more and found that the theories are a bit [...]
Supermodel and definitely multi millionaire Gisele Bundchen, who just may have the perceived “dream life” being married to football superstar Tom Brady and having good looks that money can’t buy but that people will pay for, has crossed a line in many women’s minds with her recent comments about breast feeding. In a magazine interview, [...]
It is widely known now that the benefits of breast feeding an infant far outweigh the benefits of breast feeding your baby with formula. Babies get all kinds of nutrition through breast milk. Not only that, they get to build up their immune system more effectively and quickly because breast milk provides them with the [...]
One of the best things that a mother can do for its baby is to breastfeed. Breastfeeding is more than a lifestyle choice – it is an important health choice. But there is one problem, breastfeeding in public. Most of the women and mothers think that it is embarrassing, uncomfortable and unsafe. This is not [...]
Breast feeding has enjoyed quite a nice resurgence over the past decade. What with all the press about natural this and natural that, and how much we have learned about the tangible benefits that breast feeding can give our youngsters when it comes to everything from immunity to development, it’s no wonder that more and [...]
I’d like to consider myself a somewhat progressive thinker in a lot of areas. For example, I support diversity, I support gay marriage, the right to choose when it comes to abortions and what we do with our bodies, I believe in stem cell research, and I’m pretty much all around nonjudgmental when it comes [...]
In a misguided attempt to help the Haitian earthquake recovery effort, apparently a lot of new moms have been sending their breast milk over for infants that have been orphaned by the tragic happening, in a response to what they thought was a call for breast milk from whoever could spare it. They thought or [...]
Many new mothers, or even second time mothers, or third or so on, are a little confused about how long they really can keep their breast milk in the refrigerator with it still being good, aka not spoiled, retaining all of it’s nutritional value with fresh vitamins, minerals and nutrients, and not beginning to degrade [...]
Pregnancy produces so many changes in a woman’s body that it’s difficult to list all of them, especially since different women experience the symptoms of pregnancy with such different stories. While one woman may have morning sickness pretty much as soon as the pregnancy incepts, another may never have morning sickness. While one may have [...]
There may be some health benefits to breast feeding for women that were not fully realized or appreciated before, which may also help women decide to breast feed a little more readily. First, there are the obvious drawbacks to breast feeding for the women who do choose to breast feed. First, it is a very [...]
This is probably the most unfortunate story I’ve ever heard related to breast feeding, although I doubt this is the fist time this has happened. A mother riding a plane on a long trip apparently was nursing a 4 week old baby on her breast when she fell asleep. Apparently when she woke up, the [...]
Well, Spanish toy manufacturers Berjuan have certainly raise some hackles by introducing a new, and very interesting, and of course very controversial doll for little girls to play with that actually simulates the breast feeding experience for little girls. I know, a little creepy, am I right of am I wrong? That was my first [...]
Breast feeding is definitely something that benefits a baby and child in their formative years. It’s been documented over and over how much stronger breast feeding can make a child’s immune system, since the mother passes over valuable antibodies to her child through her breast milk. It also has been noted that breast feeding your [...]
