Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
One of the much-touted ‘benefits’ of bottlefeeding is that you “can see how much the baby’s having”. I’ve often said that the flipside of that is that you can also see how much the baby’s leaving - and that can give you one more thing to worry about. I thought this was an interesting study into the longterm impact of giving a baby milk (formula or breast) from a bottle. Obesity prevention is a hot topic in healthcare at the moment, so breastfeeding promotion sits well alongside.
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
I believe that the UK society isn’t geared up for breastfeeding, certainly not past the first few weeks, and I think that it’s criminal that 90% of women who stop breastfeeding in the first six weeks of their baby’s life do so against their wishes. The fact that only 1 in 4 babies is having any breastmilk at all at six months and more than 90% of babies have formula at one stage or another also demonstrates how ingrained giving formula is.
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
I thought it might be fun to post items from baby feeding history on here as I find them.
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Posted on October 18th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
I thought people might be interested in this resource pack, set up by the brilliant Breastfeeding Network. It’s called the Childrens Centre Resource Pack, but why not request some of the books at your local library, maybe offer to do a storytime with them, buy them for your own children - and as for the soft toys, how sweet are they?!
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
I know many visitors to this site also see their health professionals regularly and I would appreciate you asking them one question the next time you go to clinic. The question?
“Will the age for weaning be changing from six months soon?”
Please can you post the reply here, giving as much detail as you can (or email [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
I find myself more and more disheartened by society’s ever-increasing insistence that we need to make our children independent from the word go, coupled with the idea that this independence is somehow hastened by absenting ourselves from them.
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
But some search terms are heartbreaking and I wish I could reach out and hug the person searching the internet - things like “guilt over not being able to breastfeed,” “I don’t enjoy breastfeeding” and the title of this post - “Why is breastfeeding hard?” And that got me thinking. Why is it hard?
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by Jane HBFW
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I remembered reading about this a while ago and thought it might be useful for some. I appreciate you might wonder just how many hands I’m expecting you to have here - hold the baby, possibly guide your breast, hold hands with your baby, but with a bit of juggling, it should be possible.
The idea [...]
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