Category: Breastfeeding
Lactivism, Breast Feeding, Bottle Feeding, Formula And Mothers At War
| March 24, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Current Events |
If you’re easily offended or like a good fight, now might be a good time to look away. I’m talking about the World War 3 of parenting: breast vs bottle. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I also want to talk about lactivism – that word that raises heckles, and shouts of ‘nazi’ and bully and…
Breastfeeding and Race: South Africa
| March 14, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Around Africa, Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Current Events, Travel |
*** Welcome March Carnival of Breastfeeding readers.*** I find myself in a strange situation. I am one of my race, yet not of my culture. I fit in to a race that is not mine – yet am part of its culture. But let me start at the beginning and explain myself a little better…
Attachment Parenting In Nature
| February 24, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Baby Led Weaning, Breastfeeding, Discovering Nature, Incidental Learning, Raising Conscious Children |
Becoming a mother has changed me in more ways than I knew possible. I am passionate today about things I’d never heard of two years ago. I also spend a lot more time around animals than I ever did before, since we’ve tried to get Ameli outdoors and into nature as much as possible. Over…
Do Breastfed Babies/Toddlers Need To Brush Their Teeth?
| February 17, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding |
Perhaps it was because our clinic happened to be based in one of the more deprived areas of London that our health visitors were particularly hot on tooth brushing. Ameli received her first toothbrush and toothpaste set at around two months of age, while her first teeth arrived at four months. The second set came…
Co-Sleeping and Breastfeeding
| January 25, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Child Safety, Cosleeping, Night Time Parenting |
A reader asked me to write about co-sleeping and breastfeeding. Although this is something we’ve been doing since around one and a half hours after Ameli’s birth – she was born at 4.40am, we were asleep in our bed by six – it’s still a hard topic to write about because I’ve never really thought…
Misleading, Inaccurate Headlines Harm Babies Too
| January 17, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Current Events |
I went away for the weekend and seem to have come back to the world gone mad. Headlines such as “Breast is not best“, “Exclusively breast-feeding for six months ’causes allergies“, and “Mother’s milk”may do more harm than good are all over my RSS feeds. Now, Analytical Armadillo has written an exemplary article on the ‘facts’…
Natural Childbirth: Changes In Sex Life
| January 6, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Gentle and Positive Childbirth, Pregnancy |
It usually starts with, “Can I ask you a personal question?†I must admit, I don’t mind. There’s not much I haven’t shared already. So she continues,â€How are things, you know, down there, since your natural birth?â€
What Is Breastfeeding Let-Down And How Does It Work?
| November 26, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding |
Milk production in the body is a simply miraculous process. In general, it is started when a baby latches on to the mother’s breast, and ‘let-down’ occurs. Really, let-down is the action of milk flowing through the milk ducts into and through the nipple and into the baby’s mouth. Knowing how breast milk is made…
Breast Milk Production: How Is Breast Milk Made?
| November 11, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding |
I have been breastfeeding for a little over thirteen months now, and it recently dawned on me that I kind of just ‘trust’ the process to work, and have no idea how breast milk is made. This is a rather unnatural situation for me, as I always want to know the ins and outs of…
What Do You Mean ‘Natural Parenting’?
| November 9, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Baby Led Weaning, Breastfeeding, Carnival of Natural Parenting, Cloth Nappies, Cosleeping |
I have often told people these two things: Before I had Ameli, what I knew about children could be written on the back of a match box, with room left for a stamp. I didn’t choose many of the ways we’ve decided to raise Ameli – she chose them.
I have often told people these two things:
- Before I had Ameli, what I knew about children could be written on the back of a match box, with room left for a stamp.
- I didn’t choose many of the ways we’ve decided to raise Ameli – she chose them.
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