by lcbaker | Aug 8, 2011 | Featured, Natural Parenting
I had the opportunity last weekend to hear Mayim Bialim speak at the Atlanta Birth Center campaign fundraiser kick-off. I’ll probably write several blogs about what she said, but there was one thing that really struck me as good advice for everyone, especially...
by lcbaker | Aug 5, 2011 | Breastfeeding
Saw this on twitter (sadly, I can’t remember who posted it or find it in my news feed! sorry, and thanks to whoever shared it first!). But it’s definitely one of the funniest breastfeeding pictures I’ve ever seen. This pretty much sums up world...
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...