Archive for January, 2008

Only A Few Days Left To Vote!!!

The website Ideablob is holding a contest in which the winner stands to claim $10,000 toward their cause. This is very exciting for the breastfeeding world as The Mother's...

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Smoking Reduces Breastfeeding Protection Against Allergies

I'm not one to preach about the ill-effects of smoking, but I do feel obliged to bring facts to the forefront about the relationship between smoking and breastfeeding. It's...

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Going Back To Work? Breastfeeding Does Not Have To End!

One of the most common non-clinical questions I get is about returning to work and breastfeeding. Many working moms are under the assumption that breastfeeding will be impossible once...

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So: Is It Possible That Nora Ephron Ignores Science?

My gut response to Nora Ephron's mildly tongue-in-cheek Op-Ed "The Chicken Soup Chronicles"(New York Times, January 13) was, "Wow, with her Luddite's view of breastfeeding research, Nora Ephron might be...

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Breastfeeding Reduces Stress

Amongst the myriad positive effects of breastfeeding, we can now add another...stress reduction. Researchers from Sweden and the United Kingdom studied approximately 9,000 children born in 1970. Information on the...

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Breastfeeding May Delay Or Prevent Atopic Disease

The recently revised AAP clinical report, "Effects of Early Nutritional Interventions on the Development of Atopic Disease In Infants and Children: The Role of Maternal Dietary Restriction, Breastfeeding, Timing of...

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