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• They Say: Blame Hospitals for Breastfeeding Failures

  Reading this study, I couldn't help but feel a little vindicated. I've always felt like a big fat failure at breastfeeding - despite all my best efforts, I didn't make it very long. And I put a lot of that blame on the misinformation swirling around the maternity ward where I gave birth to my daughter.  Guess what? A new study says hospitals are largely to blame for the failure of breastfeeding moms in America. And that includes hospitals where attempts are being made to encourage breastfeeding. Read More... Posted Mar 21 2009, 11:31 AM by JeanneSager with | with 31 comment(s) Filed under: education, hospitals, breastfeeding, breast is best, formula, healthcare, breastmilk, maternity ward, Jeanne Sager, they say, bottle, baby friendly, colostrum

• A Guy's Take on Why Breastfeeding Isn't That Great (and why it is great) -- Part II

  #4)      Breast Feeding Promotes Jaw Strength. And I don’t mean yours after gritting your teeth at 3 am because you’re up with the baby and your significant other is sleeping soundly. I mean the baby has to work his little jaw harder to get that precious milk, exercises it until he’s got a super jaw. And who doesn’t a toddler that looks like Jay Leno and can chew through steel? Read More... Posted Sep 23 2008, 06:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: breast feeding, formula, pumping, bonding, bottle, anitbodies, le leche league, infant health, vitamins

• 5 Reasons Breast Feeding Isn't That Great (and 5 Reasons Why It Is) Part 1

  #2)      The Psychological Benefits are False. The conventional wisdom was breastfeeding led to a more focused, less hyperactive child adept at forming peer relations. However, an exhaustive study recently proved these assumptions wrong.  Experts and laymen presumed that the constant physical closeness involved with breastfeeding would do all kinds of psychological wonders. Nope. Read More... Posted Sep 16 2008, 06:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: breast feeding, formula, pumping, bonding, bottle, anitbodies, le leche league, infant health, vitamins

• Man Performs C-Section on Deer Hit by Car

  No good deed goes unpunished—particularly when baby animals and bureaucracy are involved. A 67-year-old Canadian man is under investigation for saving a baby deer’s life, something that conservation officers believe should have been left to them. Hank Van-Til was driving home one day when he saw a truck hit a deer, sending it into a ditch. Van-Til pulled over and discovered that the doe was pregnant. Read More... Posted Jun 06 2008, 01:50 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Canada, c-section, baby animals, deer, nurse, bottle, hit by car, doe, wildlife and humans, truck, conservation officers, new brunswick, baby deer, orphaned animals, department of natural resources

• Scientology Parenting: Are Tom and Katie Feeding Suri Poison?

  The good folks at Defamer have paid much attention to how many bottles famous Scientology mothers are giving their kids. Leah Remini has confessed to still bottle feeding her three-year-old and Suri here looks like she has no intention of stopping the “ba-ba.” Critics have called a lot of supposedly regular parenting practices of Scientology into question (“silent birth” anyone?). Now there is speculation as to what is in that bottle two-year-old Suri clutches so dearly. And that magic liquid might be toxic to kids…  Read More... Posted May 12 2008, 08:04 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, katie holmes, Tom Cruise, scientology, suri cruise, TomKat, Leah Remini, hollywood, cult, silent birth, thetans, defamer, l. ron hubbard, fomula, bottle, critics