If your focus is natural parenting, you might be trying to figure out how to navigate all of the stuff of parenting without letting the material stuff become the focus. How much stuff do you really need to breastfeed successfully? Not much. Really. The key to keeping your stuff simple is an honest assessment of…Read the full article.

If you could convince your employer that a program would help retain experienced employees, reduce sick days, and lower health insurance costs, would your employer jump to find out more? The program is The Business Case for Breastfeeding, a comprehensive U.S. government program to educate employers and human resource managers about the value of creating…Read the full article.

La Leche League Canada recently launched a national awareness campaign to tell women that they can get support while they figure out breastfeeding. Mother-to-mother we help each other with our experience. If you would like to help, LLLC is looking for volunteers and donors to spread the campaign.

A lactation consultant is a healthcare professional with clinical knowledge of human lactation as well as a counselor and educator who helps mothers learn to feed their babies. Not all healthcare professionals have the same training, accurate resources, or provide the positive support a woman needs during breastfeeding. There may be times when a women…Read the full article.

When the British Medical Journal two weeks ago published a review paper, an opinion piece, on the nutritional INadequacy of the World Health Organization’s recommendation that infants exclusively breastfeed for six month, a wave of media coverage followed. As often happens, the adequacy of the publication was of less importance in media coverage than the…Read the full article.

You might wonder whether you need to eat more, eat different foods, or drink more water during lactation. How much does your nutrition effect your baby? What should you eat while you are breastfeeding? The short answer is very simple: your normal healthy diet is good already. That’s the catch, though. Many of us don’t…Read the full article.

When you want to give your child the long-term benefits of extended breastfeeding, it helps when you have confidence to respond to others. Every woman needs support. That support can range from family support to hearing about research that explains the benefits of long-term nursing to workplace policies that allow continuation of the breastfeeding relationship.…Read the full article.

Research shows that breastfeeding is the right choice because it makes babies smarter, keeps mothers and babies healthier, and saves families and society money by avoiding higher future healthcare costs. The Smart Choice Developing infants use the fatty acids in their mothers’ milk for their brain development. Scientists have found that breastfed babies with particular…Read the full article.

The Canadian Paediatric Society in the current issue of Paediatrics & Child Health has called for milk banking of donor breast milk across Canada. It is universally accepted that breast milk is the optimum exclusive source of nutrition for the first six months of life, and may remain part of the healthy infant diet for…Read the full article.

How widespread is breastfeeding? Health Canada, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control provide annual statistics that show upward trends over the past decade that seem to be flattening out recently. This past summer, the Toronto Globe & Mail ran a story following the release of the latest numbers to ask,…Read the full article.