Articles related to "Lactation"



Call a Lactation Consultant
How does a new mother know when she needs help with nursing? Where should she turn for breastfeeding assistance? A lactation consultant can quickly provide answers.
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Can Exclusive Breastfeeding Help Prevent Pregnancy?
Not sure about what type of family planning option to use postpartum? Learn more about how Lactational Amennorhea Method (LAM) is gaining acceptance as a reliable and inexpensive family planning option for breastfeeding women less than six months postpartum.
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Nursing Mother, Working Mother
An interview with Gale Pryor, author of Working Mother, Nursing Mother
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Best Breastfeeding Techniques
Breastfeeding seems like the most natural process in the world. Yet mothers can make mistakes that cause problems with breastfeeding. Here are the best techniques.
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Increasing Your Breastmilk Supply
Risk factors for delayed lactation include obesity, a prolonged pushing stage and a cesarean birth. Mothers can increase supply by pumping and feeding frequently.
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How to Successfully Nurse Twins
A mother's body is capable of producing the milk she needs for more than one baby. The key is proper technique and careful management coupled with good planning.
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Breastfeeding Myths

Prepare to Breastfeed
Pregnant women who plan to breastfeed their babies are off to a good start. Pregnancy is the best time to make plans for breastfeeding a baby.
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Stem Cells in Breastmilk
In addition to its many other benefits, new research shows that breastmilk contains stem cells. This finding may offer an ethical alternative to embryonic stem cells.
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Breastfeeding and the Workforce
The choice to continue breastfeeding after returning to work is a personal one but for many mothers, the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh any sacrifices.
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Female Hormones
Women's hormones are responsible for sexual maturity, fertility, and breast milk production. Learn which hormones are responsible for which processes.
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The First Steps to Breastfeeding
Find the easiest steps to help boost your milk production within the first few days of welcoming your newborn home! There is nothing more natural than feeding your baby!
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Working Mothers Can Breastfeed
Despite the legal right to do so, many nursing mothers employed outside of the home do not continue breastfeeding their infants upon return to work.
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You Can Help Your Grandbaby Nurse
Your daughter or daughter-in-law has decided to breastfeed your grandbaby. You need to know what you can do to help make their breastfeeding relationship successful.
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Building the Nursing Relationship

The First Feeding

The First Week: Engorgement

Herbs to Increase Breastmilk Production
Fenugreek, Goat's Rue and Shatavari are three herbal galactagogues that can help increase a mother's milk supply.
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Breast Pain: Plugged Ducts and Mastitis

Nipple Shields: Helpful or Harmful?
Discussion of the common uses of nipple shields and how they can be problematic.

Increase Breastmilk Supply With Lactogenic Foods
Barley grass and barley water, spirulina, fennel seed and oatmeal support the chemical process of lactation.
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Nutritional Benefits of Breastfeeding Toddlers
Continuing to breastfeed your child after one year will help ensure proper nutrition even if your toddler is a picky eater. It may also prevent infection and allergies.
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Breastfeeding After Surgery
Women who have had breast reduction surgery can still breastfeed their babies. Galactagogues and supplementation devices may be needed, but it is worth the extra effort.
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Get Hooked on Fish Oils
The importance of fish oils and DHA before, during, and after birth.
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How to Increase Your Milk Supply When Nursing
Using a breast pump, nursing more frequently, drinking water, herbal remedies, eating more calories, and eating oatmeal can increase your breast milk supply.
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Advances in Breastfeeding Promotion

Breastfeeding Tips for New Moms
Mothers can begin to prepare themselves to breastfeed even before their babies arrive. Building education and a support system can help the future nursing relationship.
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Returning to Work
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Knitted Breasts to Help New Mums!
A UK hospital is using hand knitted breasts to help teach young mums about breast feeding. This is an interesting way that knitters can knit for a good cause.
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Smoking And Infertility
New research links parental smoking with subsequent infertility in offspring.
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Online Support for Nursing Moms (Conclusion):
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On Strike!

Breast Cancer Prevention Through Breastfeeding
A recent report by the World Cancer Research Fund concludes that there is strong evidence that breastfeeding lowers the risk of cancers in both mother and child.
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Breastfeeding and Starting Bottles
Deciding when to start a breastfeeding baby on bottles can be confusing for new parents. Understanding the consequences of bottle timing is important.
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Is Baby Getting Enough Breastmilk?
One of the most common concerns of the breastfeeding mother is if her newborn is getting enough breastmilk. Learn when not to worry and when to worry.
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Nipple Soreness

Online Support for Breastfeeding Moms (Part 3)
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Emotional Aspects of Breastfeeding After Surgery
Facing the challenges of breastfeeding your baby after breast reduction surgery is difficult emotionally. Expect to experience guilt, anxiety, and self deprecation.
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Breastfeeding Paraphernalia

Helpful Breastfeeding Hints Part I
How often new babies nurse, avoiding nipple confusion, and more.
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Online Support for Breastfeeding Moms (Part 1)

Folic Acid
Learn the goods and bads of Folic Acid
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You Can Breastfeed, Work, and Travel
More moms than ever are combining work, breastfeeding and even travel. Learn about an on-line suport network of pumping moms and learn about how one working mom's passion about giving her baby the very best has evolved into supporting her coworkers and other working and breastfeeding moms. Tips for travelling and breastfeeding are included in this exclusive article by CE Maurenne Griese
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Helpful Breastfeeding Hints Part II
Breastfeeding discreetly, nursing while lying down, and more.
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Riboflavin - vitamin B2
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) is described, deficiency symptomology is explored, and some recent research is explained.
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World Breastfeeding Month: Educating Your Community
How to help your medical professionals become more involved in breastfeeding awareness and education in your community.

Donating Your Breast Milk
How you can donate your breast milk to help premature babies this Christmas.
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Herbal Remedy, Elymus repens
Elymus repens may be used as an alternative treatment to relieve disorders disorders of the kidneys and urinary tract such as Cystitis and Urethritis.
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Your Breastfed Grandbaby
If your grandchild's mother has decided to breastfeed him, she is giving him the best possible start in life. You need to know why so you can encourage her.
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Daddy's Bond
The special bond between nursling and daddy.
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