Blog Entries February 2009
by Barbara Dehn -
25th February 2009
Did you know that about 480,000 premies are born in the US every year. That’s about 1 every minute. It’s way too many. These babies have many challenges ahead, one of which is feeding. For many, their little mouths are so small that it’s difficult to impossible to grasp a nipple. For many,...
by Kate Kahn -
22nd February 2009
Doctors and researchers in the United Kingdom are launching a study to figure out how many newborns are seriously dehydrated because they're not able to take in enough breastmilk. When that happens it's called Hypernatraemic Dehydration. It's rare but if not treated it can cause some terrible problems and be potentially fatal. The...
by Barbara Dehn -
18th February 2009
I was just reading some of the stories of the week. They are so powerful because they speak to the differences in all of our experiences. So many moms shared that they would do anything, including, “stand on their heads upside down” to make enough milk to breastfeed that it made me think of my some of patients, who also...
by Kate Kahn -
15th February 2009
Critics of low breastfeeding rates in this country like to blame it on formula companies for providing free samples to hospitals, for providing food to the WIC program and for doing numerous other things.
But there are two very real reasons why the breastfeeding rate in the U.S. has not reached the federal goal. One reason is...
by Barbara Dehn -
11th February 2009
I recently received a question from a mom on the ask the RN section of this website. It kind of stopped me in my tracks, because it was about a 16-month-old child who had been treated repeatedly for worms. What a scenario, that thankfully most of us don’t have to deal with. Yet there are areas of the world where mothers...
by Kate Kahn -
8th February 2009
Here's something to chew on, no pun intended. Some New York lawmakers have sbumitted legislation called the "Breastfeeding Mothers' Bill of Rights." On the surface it might seem harmless but if you read it, you'll find it's not so benign. So...
by Barbara Dehn -
4th February 2009
When you wake up in the morning what do you do? If you have a baby or little ones, I guess the better question is how much sleep did you and or your brood get last night? If you said less than 7, then you are definitely running on empty. Maybe you feel as if you need 4 cups of espresso and a red bull chaser. If you think...
by Kate Kahn -
31st January 2009
Here's something interesting to consider. Children who eat fast food at least twice a week are more likely to develop asthma negating any benefit from having been breastfed. That's right, fast food consumption can reverse the good that breatfeeding can do. So says a new study published in the journal...
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Do moms know best? We believe they do, but the government may not..
Your freedom to choose between breast and bottle-feeding could be in jeopardy.
