Your Breastfeeding Timeline
Solutions for the first day, week, month and beyond.
by Jeanne Sager
February 2, 2009
Breastfeeding is good for babies. So we've heard — from every health expert, website and media outlet out there.
But guess what? It's also hard work . . . at least in the early days.
Haven't heard that almost every nursing mother has to struggle a bit with getting it right? Don't be surprised. Those same health experts — from the CDC to the American Academy of Pediatrics — are beating the drums to urge women to jump on the breastfeeding bandwagon. In the push to ensure moms know the benefits of breastmilk to baby, the voices of frustrated new mothers are often drowned out.
"I wish I had known about the ups and downs of breastfeeding and how to actually do it," says Andi Silverman, author of Mama Knows Breast: A Beginner's Guide to Breastfeeding. The moment she knew she had to write the book? "When I realized that I knew more about my baby's carseat, stroller and crib than I did about breastfeeding."
Mothers don't need the sometimes tough reality of breastfeeding sugar-coated.
Yes, it's hard. That doesn't mean mothers can't or shouldn't do it. Nor does it mean mothers need the sometimes tough reality of breastfeeding sugar-coated.
The same women who have heard horror stories about labor have willingly signed up to bring a child into this world, pain be darned. Now they're ready to give that child the best start to life; so how about a real look at how you can make it past the most common hurdles?
©2009 Jeanne Sager and Babble
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Jeanne Sager is a freelance writer and photographer living in upstate New York with her husband and daughter, Jillian. She maintains a blog of her award-winning columns at jeannesager.blogspot.com. |
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