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Triumphant Tuesday: Overcoming Breastfeeding Ignorance
Breastfeeding ignorance is rife in contemporary society. Medical staff exacerbate it, and formula companies rely on it. Lack of breastfeeding knowledge is often cited as the reason why most mothers...
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Makeup for Babies
The contemporary flooding of the preschool toy market by cosmetics is well-documented. Such penetration is thought to begin when children are as young as three years old. However this article is going...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding With Depression
80% of mothers go through some anxiety and depression after pregnancy. Some of these mothers (about 10%) become heavily depressed and need to seek professional help; some sources even believe the...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding Despite Faulty Information
In the age of information (internet, libraries, helplines, other media) ignorance is a choice and should never form a roadblock to breastfeeding. However after I declare this, a common retort is: “But...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding a Dairy Intolerant Baby
Most breastfed babies have no problems with anything their mother eats. Nursing moms can eat whatever they like, whenever they like, in the amounts that they like. However, whilst food sensitivities in...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding a Jaundiced Baby
Jaundice happens because babies are born with more red blood cells than they need. When the liver breaks down these excess cells it produces a yellow pigment called bilirubin. Because the newborn's...
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Timeline of Postpartum Recovery
So you’ve just had a baby? Congrats! I bet you’re raring to get back to your aerobics class and daily jogs (huh? who are you telling to shut up?), but hold the sit-ups. Your body has its own timeline...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding Through Pain
You will be forgiven for wondering why a mother would breastfeed through pain, for months on end. After all, the common adage is that, "If it hurts, you're doing it wrong". Pain is the result of poor...
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Timeline of Baby and Toddler Sleep
Are some babies inherently good sleepers, while others aren’t? Yes to a certain extent this is true. However natural variations are a lot less than most parents think. There are specific patterns of...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding a Baby with Facial Malformation
Medical staff have a trigger happy tendency to push formula upon babies at the best of times. However, when confronted with a baby that doesn't fit the textbook norm, the drive to push formula is even...
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How to Spot a Defensive Formula Feeder
In recent years there has been a welcome cultural shift in the way our society (the scientific and medical communities at least) views breastfeeding. Research has re-established breastfeeding as the...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding With Tongue Tie – Take 2
4.2% of babies are tongue-tied. Those with the condition are 3 times as likely to be exclusively bottle fed at 1 week (Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2005). Is this any surprise when...
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Triumphant Tuesday: From Bottle to Breast
There’s no such thing as nipple confusion. Bottle feeding is best because you know exactly how much your baby is consuming. It’s wise to introduce a bottle as soon as possible to ensure your baby won’t...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding Through Chronic Thrush
The pain of thrush can rival that of labor. Burning sensations that radiate through the breast are accompanied by deep stabbing and shooting pains. What's more, the outward appearance of thrush varies...
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The Truth About Baby Food Jars
American babies consume an average of 600 jars of baby food by the time they are a year old (Chasing Green 2011). Four out of five British babies rely on tinned and jarred products (Rees 2007). Yet,...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding in a Hostile Community
Studies suggest that the support a woman receives from her partner can make or break her breastfeeding success (Arora et al 2000; Tohotoa et al 2009; U.S. Department of Health 2011). The same is...
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Feminist Children's Books: Part Two
Here's another ten liberating children's books to tickle your feminist fancy (First, catch up on part one here).Pippi LongstockingAstrid LindgrenPippi is spunky adventurous nine-year-old girl with...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding a Sick Premature Baby
Breast milk is a complex living, morphing, dynamic substance. It contains live cells that protect babies from infection, and these are are even more important for premature babies. Preemies have a...
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Triumphant Tuesday: The Veteran Breastfeeder
Once commonplace, an experienced breastfeeding mother is now a rare commodity. This is a great shame as there is much we can learn from the veteran breastfeeder. Contrary to common assumption, most...
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Formula Feeding and Obesity
A little while ago I posted an article titled, ‘It’s Just Baby Fat’, in which I ridiculed a grotesque toy doll that came armed with a toy bottle. I linked the baby’s obese frame with the suggestion...
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