It’s World Breastfeeding Week 2019 and it’s time to acknowledge that the predicted dividends of breastfeeding — lives and healthcare dollars saved, diseases and conditions averted — have failed to ...

Welcome to the Celebrity Baby Blog’s World Breastfeeding Week Celebration! Celebrated in over 120 countries, World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is the greatest outreach vehicle for the breastfeeding ...

When you start breastfeeding, you probably don’t have a timeline in mind of how long you’re going to do it. You’re just trying to make it through the sore nipples, sleeplessness, and marathon nursing ...

Not everyone welcomes official promotion of breastfeeding. One milestone was Hanna Rosin’s 2009 “case against breastfeeding” in The Atlantic. This fed into the 2015 book Lactivism by Courtney Jung, ...

While not all illnesses or medical conditions require the use of antibiotics, some do, including ear or sinus infections, dental procedures, or mastitis. If you’ve been prescribed an antibiotic while ...

Breastfeeding may lower mothers' later life risks of depression and anxiety for up to 10 years after pregnancy, suggest the ...

Although it is a natural activity, breastfeeding is also a skill that takes time to learn. It tends to get easier with practice, as both a woman and baby master the breastfeeding strategies that work ...

Some people lose weight when breastfeeding, possibly due to the extra calories the body uses to produce milk. Many factors can impact a person’s weight, and some people do not lose weight while ...

A recent viral social media post of a mother breastfeeding her child has ignited a familiar debate on social media over women breastfeeding in public. In the U.S., the right to breastfeed in public is ...