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by Kate Kahn -
2nd February 2012
You may have heard recently about two infants in Missouri and Florida who died from Cronobacter illness and two other cases of infants in other states, who had the Cronobacter infection.
Cronobacter is a bacteria that sometimes, though rarely, causes severe infection in young infants---it usually occurs in the first days or weeks of...
by Kate Kahn -
30th January 2012
Returning to work for a new mom can be emotionally traumatic; it's difficult to leave your baby and the task of figuring out how you're going to continue feeding your baby breastmilk by pumping at work can be stressful.
I read a good tip sheet on this topic and thought it had some great ideas. Here are a few:
* Talk to your...
by Kate Kahn -
26th January 2012
A new study out shows an alarming fact: 15 percent of low-income parents are resorting to "formula stretching" by watering down their formula, to keep their infants fed. This, even with the help of...
by Barbara Dehn -
23rd January 2012
There’s a lot of education aimed at moms to help them do the best they can for their babies. One important message from the American Academy of Pediatrics is that breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of a baby’s life. And, moms are encouraged to continue for their baby’s first full year. Now, I...
by Kate Kahn -
19th January 2012
If you've chosen to feed your infant formula, this blog entry is for you. A recent study published in Pediatric Research found that infant formulas enriched with long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids ( LCPUFA) such as DHA and...
by Barbara Dehn -
16th January 2012
This week I received a lot of questions from moms whose babies who
were 5 or more weeks old and seemed to need to eat every 2 hours. The
moms were becoming sleep deprived and felt like their babies were
constantly hungry. It didn’t matter if they were using pumped milk or
formula,...
by Kate Kahn -
12th January 2012
I read a story the other day about a study that showed mothers who breastfeed are more likely to bond with their babies. First of all, the study only examined 17 women---nine breastfeeders and eight formula feeders. So the sample is tiny to say the least. The women in the study listened to clips of their own baby crying...
by Barbara Dehn -
9th January 2012
I heard this the other day from a woman who wrote me to say that she was able to breastfeed twins for a year and managed to work full time. First of all, that is incredible and impressive, and something that most women aren't able to do. So congratulations, and I'm very happy that her experience worked out for her. Now,...
by Kate Kahn -
5th January 2012
We have a childhood obesity epidemic in our country. That much is true. What's less clear is a definitive cause. That's because there are likely several reasons for it.
Breastfeeding advocates have, for a long time, pushed out the view that breastfeeding staves off obesity as children get older. By definition they...
by Barbara Dehn -
2nd January 2012
Recently I read about a mom who found herself in the hospital with her infant because he had been given too much water and not enough calories.
The mom didn’t understand that she couldn’t stretch her babies powdered formula by adding more water to the bottles. Finances were stretched thin, and it seemed...
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