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Nursing Mother’s Council
La Leche League
The International Breast Feeding Organization
academy of breastfeeding medicine, resource page
Breastfeeding Made Simple
Mothering your nursing todler
The No Cry Sleep Solution

Breastfeeding is not intuitive. In my new parent class they announce that over 75% of moms give up by 6 months. But you do not need to be one of those women. Almost all women are capable of breastfeeding, given the right information, help, support, and confidence. And after you get the hang of it, [...]

Tom was born by c-section, so it was aboujt 45 minutes before I got to hold him for the first time. That was an extremely long 45 minutes, waiting to be sewn up, rolled back to our room. In felt like I only got to hold him for a minute before the nurse took him [...]

Breastfeeding is not intuitive. Make sure your hospital has lactation specialists too help you get the hang of feeding your baby. When the baby is born, call on that lactation specialist as much as you need to in order to feel comfortable with breastfeeding. Postpartum doulas can come to your home for a fee and [...]

Quantifying the Benefits of Breastfeeding:
A Summary of the Evidence – study information from the World Health Organization.
It is a great way to bond every day
It helps create happy hormones in mom
It may increase your baby’s IQ: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7075511.stm
It is less expensive and more readily available than formula
Breast milk helps the baby’s immune system

You are the only person who will breast feed your baby. That may seem weird or obvious now, but if your experience is anything like mine, after you are in the hang of breastfeeding it will fill with meaning and emotion. It will at times be frustrating, inconvenient, scary, a good excuse, soothing, pleasant, and [...]

When I talked to Tom’s pediatrician about her thoughts on supplementation, she said that “of course exclusive breastfeeding is ideal, unless there is an issue…” and she went on to say that breastmilk is lacking in some vitamins, and that there haven’t really been any studies showing that exclusive breastfeeding is better…
I was terribly dissapointed [...]

I found a fun site where people from all over the world can write about their experience with breastfeeding in their country. It’s pretty interesting. http://www.007b.com/public-breastfeeding-world.php  

It turns out that painful nipples while nursing is a product of a poor latch! There are some videos here that show proper latching and explain why poor latch causes all those painful issues, as well as some other eating issues.