#breastfeeding

#breastfeeding

We recently asked parents of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us their biggest parenting regrets.Here are the eye-opening results:

2. "Worrying about breastfeeding.In the UK, it's rammed down your throat, and you're all but shamed for considering anything else.As long as baby is fed and happy, who cares how they are fed?

The study of the diet-brain connection can also be referred to as the gut-brain connection, food and mood, and nutritional psychiatry.As the title suggests, it means that what we eat can have direct impacts on our brains which ultimately reflects the level of our moods as well.Accordingly, when we eat highly nutritious food in the right way, it not only nourishes us but also helps in improving our mood.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Soon after a baby is born, it's getting more common these days for the father or non-birthing parent to be encouraged to put the newborn directly on their chest.This skin-to-skin contact is often termed kangaroo care, as it mimics the way kangaroos provide warmth and security to babies.

Most women will pump at some point during their postpartum journey, and there is a lot more to pumping than one might realize.From flanges and proper storage of breastmilk to nipple sizing, you need to know all of the ins and outs to use a breast pump and pumping essentials.Get the most out of your pumping sessions and protect your breasts with these helpful tips and information you need to know.

There are a lot of tropes about fathers, but one tends to stick out the most: the distant dad.He's there, he's present - sort of - but he seems far away.He's the dad on Stranger Things who reads the paper at breakfast and doesn't really seem to engage with his family; he's the dad who comes home from work and immediately retreats to the den.

MOGADISHU, Somalia Hunger and loss make up a kaleidoscope in Somalia, but one scene stands out in my visit: A mom, Fardosa Ahmed, confides shyly that she had eight children but lost four of them, and now she fears she may lose a fifth, her daughter Catiko, who is sick, weak and motionless.The tremble in Fardosa's voice offers a reminder of the prospective human cost of the famine that, as I wrote in my last column, is looming this spring.

Was Huw Edwards breastfed?One wouldn't normally speculate about an eminent BBC newsreader's infant nutrition, but what with the disclosure that his Oxbridge rejection still rankles, and new research suggesting inadequately breastfeeding mothers could put their children at academic risk, it might be time to ask just how much intellectual disappointment is, if we're honest, women's fault.

In 1987, my friend Kate and I stood in the middle of Yeovil high street with a very small white coffin.It was empty, but we wanted something eye-catching for passersby so that we could explain how baby milk formula manufacturers were relentlessly flogging formula to new mothers.Over 30 years later, and after much campaigning, I asked a question in the House of Lords in 2020 on the prevalence of breastfeeding in the UK.

A new U.K. study that correlates longer duration of breastfeeding with higher academic test scores at age 16 is fanning the flames of the perennial infant feeding debate.Parents often feel tremendous pressure to breastfeed after birth and continue to feel that way when they return to work, which presents a new slew of challenges and obstacles.

Bekki Hockman, who runs a Facebook group for non-gestational parents who wish to breastfeed, experienced a lot of pain and disappointment on her journey to motherhood."I had tried for over 20 years to get pregnant: miscarriages, failed IUIs, failed IVF, surgeries.Literally the entire - everything," she told HuffPost.

Breast milk contains everything a baby needs to stay nourished and hydrated for the first six months of its life: water, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, immunoglobulins and even stem cells, among other components of human milk ― some of which we still don't comprehend entirely.But what about germs?If you're passing along everything via your breast milk, including the taste of the spicy or garlicky meal you had last night, don't you risk passing along illness when you're sick?

Check out more stories from Busted, our series that offers an unfiltered exploration and celebration of our boobs and ourselves during breast cancer awareness month.Weaning from breastfeeding - and when and how you do it - is a personal decision.Sometimes, it's the parent's decision to stop nursing, sometimes the baby leads the way and other times circumstances make it necessary.

The Princess of Wales joked about needing to pick up some tips for stress management as she visited a child services group in Windsor.Kate spoke to parents at a drop-in health visitors clinic and a baby massage session at the Windsor Family Hub on Tuesday morning.She also joined a stress management course with mothers from the Punjabi community, and upon learning about the course said: I'll come here and pick up some tips!

It should be the easiest, most natural thing in the world.Or so it seems.But here I am, home from the hospital and my newborn daughter is struggling to eat.Her movements are frantic.She gnaws at my chest, my lip, even my nose, desperate for milk.Who knew that something so small could be so strong?We try again.

Interior of a free-standing lactation pod Mamava When Johnathan Fowler had his first child in 2014, it was the first time he realized how hard it can be for new parents to breastfeed."I was completely uneducated," Fowler told Morning Edition's Michel Martin.Fowler remembers his wife nursing in her office when she went back to work after having their first child.

Pregnant women and their developing babies are at higher risk for severe outcomes if they get Covid-19, and now a large, international review is helping to underscore how devastating those risks can be.The study draws on data from 12 studies from as many countriesincluding the United States.Altogether, the studies included more than 13,000 pregnant womenabout 2,000 who had a confirmed or probable case of Covid-19.

Breastfeeding is hard to keep up.Some 83 percent of babies in the United States start out on breast milk, but by 6 months, just 56 percent are breastfed  and at that stage, only a quarter drink breast milk exclusively, as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends.That steady decline speaks to the wide-ranging challenges parents face in trying to breastfeed.

John Legend just welcomed his second daughter, named Esti Maxine, with his wife, Chrissy Teigen, making them a family of five.While he's not new to fatherhood, Legend has recently shared that adding one more person into his morning mix made his life much busier.Talking with WSJ Magazine, Legend opened up about parenting and welcoming his newest baby, Esti, last month.

My liquefied brain is leaking out my nipples.This is the only reasonable explanation for how I feel postpartum.I'm breastfeeding the newborn on the couch as my 3-year-old rips through the living room screaming "Chaos!Chaos!Chaos!" - a war cry she refashioned from my protestations.She shreds magazines and scatters the detritus as my husband, father to these two tiny humans, unloads the dishwasher.

It's tempting - thanks largely to the enormous advertising spend of multinational corporations - to view motherhood through the pink-hued, soft-focus lens deployed for low-budget television dramas and high-budget sanitary products.But motherhood is not purely an emotional state, much less a state of bliss.

If you've recently faked your way through a conversation about one of the greatest parenting books that you didn't actually read, there's a decent chance the book in question was Pamela Druckerman's Bringing Up Bébé: One American Woman Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.It recounts her experiences raising a child in Paris, where she found French kids to be way more well-behaved, polite, and autonomous, and more willing to sleep through the night than their American counterparts.