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Kelly Preston and “Extended” Breastfeeding
As someone who didn’t want to breastfeed past six months (and feared embarrassment), I can understand where some of the comments (230+ and counting!) are coming from with regards to Kelly Preston’s...
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Alanis Morissette Ok With Breastfeeding Son Until He’s Six, Shares Nursing...
Alanis Morissette announced on Good Morning America today that she will breastfeed her son as long as he wants, even if that is age 5 or 6. This is the strongest statement yet from the Grammy-award...
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Science You Can Use: Does breastfeeding influence your kids’ moral development?
While the health effects of breastfeeding get plenty of attention, you’re less likely to hear about some of the interactions between breastfeeding and psychological development. That’s why I was so...
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Science You Can Use: Really? Breastfeeding for a year or more = iron deficiency
Have you breastfed a baby past the one year mark? If so, a new study in Pediatrics, which found an association between breastfeeding for a year or more and iron deficiency, might have you a bit...
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Booby Traps Series: “If we lived on an island where nobody else cared what we...
In Mothering Your Nursing Toddler, author Norma Jane Bumgarner describes the reasons why mothers feel they can’t breastfeed past infancy,* even though they (and presumably their children) would like...
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Booby Traps Series: “When are you going to stop doing that?” and others...
After overcoming the many barriers to breastfeeding in the early weeks and months of breastfeeding, many women are understandably proud to continue nursing into toddlerhood and beyond.* But instead of...
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