Archive for May, 2008
Friday, 23 May 2008 @ 8:49am • My Weblog
In the midst of devastation in China following the May 12 earthquake, there's an angel.
Officer Jiang Xiaojuan, a 29-year-old mother of a 6-month old boy, has been breastfeeding babies separated...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 @ 10:34am • My Weblog
Many women feel the "baby blues" or depression in the early postpartum. However, there is also a high number of women who result in postpartum psychosis. It is...
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Monday, 19 May 2008 @ 5:06pm • My Weblog
It has been known for quite some time that breastfeeding (amongst myriad other health benefits) is associated with building children's immune systems, in addition to lowering the risk of breast...
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 @ 10:53am • My Weblog
I've got to give the big shout-out to my friend, Ben, for reminding me of this incident. It happened well before I became a Guide at About, but it's...
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Thursday, 8 May 2008 @ 11:46am • My Weblog
In a week full of exciting and positive breastfeeding news, we have yet another study to add...The May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry reports that longer periods of exclusive...
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Tuesday, 6 May 2008 @ 3:57pm • My Weblog
The breastfeeding initiation rates may be up to 77 percent in the United States, but Norway and Sweden far surpass those statistics. Why? Perhaps it's the simple fact...
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Saturday, 3 May 2008 @ 4:32pm • My Weblog
In the Wall Street Journal blog entitled "The Juggle" (regarding the "choices and tradeoffs people make as they juggle work and family"), Sara Schaefer Munoz discusses the "bad parent" act...
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Thursday, 1 May 2008 @ 12:23pm • My Weblog
A government study released on Wednesday shows that breastfeeding initiation rates are up 17% since 1994. An unprecedented 77 percent of new mothers start out breastfeeding their babies. ...
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