How Breastfeeding Works

Kate Garraway is presenting a programme called Other People’s Milk on Channel 4 on September 9th.  In it, she talks to women who have cross-nursed each other’s children and mothers who donate breastmilk. The photoshoot to promote the programme is bound to provoke a reaction, in particular, this photograph: I wonder why the outcry though [...]

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Breastfeeding Awareness Week, like a lot of the breastfeeding promotion stuff - I wonder whether it’s really only speaking to those who are likely to breastfeed anyway, come what may.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking the excellent work done in raising awareness of the issues surrounding breastfeeding.  For instance, campaigning for women to be able to [...]

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So said Kermit. But apparently, if you breastfeed, you are being green. This article sets out the environmental impact of formula feeding.  The figures are staggering, but it’s interesting to me how little mention is made of this aspect of breastfeeding promotion.  Is it because it’s yet another “stick” with which to beat an already [...]

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I don’t have personal experience of this, but I know many of the readers of this blog have breastfed their premature babies.  If you have and you would like to share your experience, please leave a comment.  I would love to have many personal breastfeeding stories on here – I very much appreciate the time [...]

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According to this quote in Hello! magazine, yes, she is: How do you manage feed times with two babies? Angelina: They are on the same schedule. They eat every three hours and I’m getting better at holding them both for breast-feeding at the same time, so that helps. Usually the other kids come in and [...]

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