If virtually every new mother breastfed her baby, more than 800,000 children's lives would be saved every year and thousands of future breast cancer deaths could be avoided, new research reveals. A ...

In honor of world breastfeeding week, I wanted to write something profound, unique and beautiful about breastfeeding. After reading several other stories in honor of breastfeeding week, I quickly ...

Don’t let medical personnel undermine breastfeeding. What mothers feed their infants is very important for their child’s lifetime health and well being. Mother's milk, developed through evolution with ...

For the first six months of your babies life, giving nothing but breastmilk is recommended by the NHS. It comes with lots of nutritional value, health benefits, as well as emotional bonding. But did ...

Breastfeeding is a natural way for mothers to supply their infants with all the nutrition and food they need for the first months of life. It may also help mothers recover more quickly from childbirth ...

Breastfeeding can help protect the baby from infection and illness and help the mother lose pregnancy weight as well as prevent ovulation.

IN a previous column published last August 17, I shared tools and tips on how to make a mom’s breastfeeding journey less stressful. As a continuation to finding relaxation methods that work for you, ...

The foods you eat while breastfeeding are important for your health and your baby’s health. Salmon, chia seeds, and butternut squash are a few nutritious foods you can try as you breastfeed. You’ve ...

OBJECTIVES: To examine feeding efficiency and correlates of feeding behaviors in breastfeeding as compared with bottle-feeding VLBW infants at 35 weeks corrected age (CA, postmenstrual plus ...

This World Breastfeeding Week, here’s what mothers really need instead A listening ear, a warm gesture, or even the simple act of not saying the wrong thing can make a world of difference to ...