by lcbaker | Aug 4, 2011 | Breastfeeding, Featured
It’s still World Breastfeeding Week, and I hadn’t really planned on an entire week of breastfeeding posts, but since I’ve come this far, why not? Today at Healthy Child, Healthy World, there was a discussion about the breastfeeding myths that drive...
by lcbaker | Aug 4, 2011 | Breastfeeding
by lcbaker | Aug 3, 2011 | Breastfeeding
According to the most recent CDC Breastfeeding Report Card, almost 72% of babies born in Georgia are breastfed at birth. But by 6 months, only 10% are still exclusively breastfeeding, and only 18.5% are still breastfeeding at a year. Most mothers in this state...
by lcbaker | Aug 2, 2011 | Breastfeeding, Featured
This isn’t exactly a confession about my non-organic parenting. But in honor of World Breastfeeding Week, I felt like I really needed to get this off my, er, chest. I used to think breastfeeding was gross. It’s not that I didn’t plan on doing...
by lcbaker | Jul 28, 2011 | Breastfeeding
Would you cross-nurse someone else’s baby? Or would you pump and share your milk with a baby that needed it? When my daughter was born, she was what is euphemistically called “a high-needs baby.” In non-euphemistic terms, this meant that she wanted...
