Is Your Formerly Nursing Baby Refusing to Breastfeed?
By Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC If your baby is younger than one year, even if she seems to be losing interest in breastfeeding, chances are…
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Breastfeeding in Real Life: What it REALLY Looks like
By Hannah Schenker Often depicted in beautiful lighting, with radiant mamas and babes gazing lovingly into one another’s eyes, breastfeeding easily becomes lifted from…
Let’s Normalize Breastsleeping
By Megan McCue Breastsleeping: NORMAL, HEALTHY, SAFE, COMFORTING. Breastsleeping is a term coined by infant sleep researcher James McKenna, of the University of Notre…
Big Latch On Connecting Isolated Families
On this Friday the 3rd and Saturday 4th of August, thousands of kiwi parents will be gathering at registered locations throughout Aotearoa New Zealand…
Swimsuit Model Breastfeeds On Catwalk: Is This Normalising Breastfeeding?
Stunning Mara Martin modelled a swimsuit on the catwalk for Sports Illustrated this week, all while breastfeeding her five-month-old daughter Aria. Some say it’s…
Breastfeed for longer or share parental leave? This shouldn’t be a choice couples have to make
Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi, University of Hertfordshire When it introduced legislation for shared parental leave in 2015, the UK was widely praised. The move allowed…
Dear Fed Is Best…
By Becky Young Dear Fed is Best, I hear you. And I’m so sorry. I want to share my story with you, because I…
What Does It Mean To “Use Your Breast As A Pacifier”?
By Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC Nursing mothers are commonly warned: “Don’t let your baby use your breast as a pacifier.” Although often said, this is an…
US Opposition of Breastfeeding Resolution Shocks Health Officials
By Hannah Schenker Hundreds of delegates gathered in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly expected a resolution to encourage breastfeeding to be easily…
Dedicated Dad “Breastfeeds” Newborn While Mama Recovered From C-Section
Now there’s something you don’t see everyday! New dad Maxamillian Neubauer stepped up to “breastfeed” his newborn daughter, when mama was recovering from an…
Breastfeeding Support: A Mother’s Right!
By Sofie Thomson We have reversed away from what is natural and biologically correct and as such have forgotten the knowledge that was once…
More Amazing Findings in Breast Milk: New Immune Cells Discovered
By Hannah Schenker As if breast milk wasn’t already a miracle substance, researchers from Augusta University have found a new class of cell within mother’s…
Dear Attachment Parent: How Do I Wean?
By Nina Palmo Dear Attachment Parent: My baby is almost 18 months old. I never thought I’d be breastfeeding a toddler, but my child is…
Sugars in Mother’s Milk Help Shape Baby’s Microbiome and Ward Off Infection
Steven Townsend, Vanderbilt University While living in a mother’s womb, cushioned by amniotic fluid and protected from the outside world, babies have only minimal…
Yes, I Breastfeed My Baby To Sleep
By Louise, aka Mama Bean You know what I just don’t understand? Anyone who has a problem with “feeding to sleep”. I went without…
Breastfeeding: It’s Not Rocket Science, It’s Biology
By Emma Pickett, IBCLC I’ve got a lot to say about breastfeeding and parenting. Some might be new but a lot of it will…
Choosing The Best Breast Pump For You
Be sure to check out the amazing deal on Unimom breast pumps for readers of The Natural Parent Magazine, at the end of the…
Sore, White Nips: Raynaud’s of the Nipple Causes Pain in Breastfeeding
Do your nipples go white after breastfeeding and when exposed to the cold? Do you have sore nipples while pregnant, that are made worse…
A Woman Over 40 Too Old To Be Breastfeeding? “I Had To Respond! And I Did.”
By Stefania Giraldi Can a woman over 40 be too old to breastfeed? “A woman over 40 is too old to breastfeed! Her milk…
Breastfeeding the “Distractible Baby”!
By Laura Lucas Mamas, it can be tough! – Whoop there goes the cat… Whoop the T.V made a noise… Whooop a bloody leaf…