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Ted Greiner, involved in research and policy work on breastfeeding for 50 yr, edits World Nutrition
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Protect, support, normalize, promote. In that order.
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Caitlyn Schollmeier is Miss United States 2020, a childbirth educator, a doula, a veteran of the United States Air Force and a Licensed Nurse.
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In Ghana and Lesotho, I saw kids getting a snack from mom on the street after kindergarten let out. I bought this Basotho tourist postcard in 1987. The caption on the back says "Woman weaving a basket." Where
#breastfeeding
is the norm, no one thinks about it. It's invisible.
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@JamesMartinSJ
Five people will go to trial for this on November 4. After the cover up failed.
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CEO of British infant formula company says, “The McDonald’s website gives me more information about the ingredients used in their burgers than many infant formulas provide on their labelling." He asks why formulas receive so little government scrutiny.
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Breast milk changes in response to the baby's needs. These samples are from the same mother, taken 3 days apart. In the meantime, the infant was sick and breastfeeding continually. Immune factors are now so abundant that they changed the color of the milk.
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Today the American Academy of Pediatrics lengthened it's recommended duration of
#breastfeeding
from one year to "as long as mutually desired by mother and child for 2 years or beyond."
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Breastfeeding: protect, support, normalize, promote. In that order.
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Unlike the rest of us, babies born to COVID infected mothers have antibodies to the virus:
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Congratulations to the British Medical Journal and its sister journals, which announced today that they have decided to stop accepting infant formula advertising, which will cost them $400,000 next year alone.
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Dutch researchers find Covid-19 antibodies in breast milk, call for donations
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It is too often assumed that too much infant weight loss after birth means inadequate breast milk. It can mean too many IV fluids were given to the mother during labor. The baseline should be infant weight at 24hr, not at birth.
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Breastfeeding at take off and landing can stop babies crying from ear ache
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Breastfeeding reduces infant pain and crying time during medical procedures compared to virtually anything else: latest Cochrane Review
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Keep in mind: while you're battling to save your country from a dictator wannabe, your toddler may need some comfort. Or a snack.
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The 100,000th way in which formula is and always will be greatly inferior.
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There is NO scientific basis for deciding when to stop
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. Stop when both mother and baby want to. There are advantages even in rich countries of continuing for years.
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If you're pregnant, are at any risk of having COVID, and plan to breastfeed, you might want to take a copy of this with you to the hospital. Staff are showing astounding levels of ignorance around the world.
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Billions of people all over the world have slept with their babies. If that was dangerous, there sure would be a lot fewer of us around.
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Baby sucking the breast creates negative pressure, drawing some of his/her saliva into the breast. There the mother's immune system reacts if the infant is shedding infected cells, creating antibodies specific to that illness-even if the mother is not sick
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AP: "French judo star Clarisse Agbégnénou is among a pioneering cohort of super-moms who refuse to choose between breastfeeding and their careers as top-flight athletes. It’s not easy, but they’re proving it’s doable."
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One still comes across the myth that heart disease is largely a problem for men. It is the largest killer of women too. And at least 6 mo of
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lowers the risk according to a recently presented study:
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