We all know how beneficial breast milk is to our babies and research is still showing that babies who are breastfed up-to six months have less risk of developing asthma-related illnesses, a study has found. Dutch scientists tracked the feeding habits and health of 5,000 children from birth to four years old and discovered those [...] Read more »
Girls as young as 4 months in Hubei province had grown breasts. Despite government and doctors’ assurances that Synutra milk formula wasn’t to blame, some parents believe otherwise. In an attempt to head off a mounting public relations crisis, the Chinese government said locally made milk formula is not what caused early puberty in baby [...] Read more »
There’s no longer any real debate about it: breast is best for babies. Pediatricians agree that breast-feeding offers all kinds of health benefits. For the baby, the benefits include reduced risk of ear infections and diarrhea during childhood, as well as a lower risk of diabetes and obesity in adulthood. For mom, breast-feeding speeds the [...] Read more »
If most new moms would breastfeed their babies for the first six months of life, it would save nearly 1,000 lives and billions of dollars each year, according to a new study published recently in the journal of Pediatrics. “The United States incurs $13 billion in excess costs annually and suffers 911 preventable deaths per [...] Read more »
With her 5-week-old daughter crying in a bathroom at Nordstrom, and not knowing how to get the baby to latch on to her breast, Garima Nahar found herself surrounded by other women. Some offered tips, but one woman told the new mother to cover up or turn the other way. “I had to kind of [...] Read more »