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Study: Breast Milk Sold Online Can Get Your Baby Sick
Donated or sold breast milk contains bacteria and sometimes salmonella
Breast-Milk Donors Come to the Rescue of a New Mom with Breast Cancer
Moms diagnosed with breast cancer are getting help from total strangers in feeding their newborns
Breast Milk During the Storm: With Power Gone, Moms Safeguard Their Stash
When freezers fail, breastfeeding moms come to each other’s rescue to save precious breast milk
Mom’s Dying Wish: Breast Milk for Her Baby. How Nursing Moms Teamed Up to Provide It
Sharing breast milk is an old idea that has become new again
Target Nurse-In: Did It Change Perceptions of Public Breast-Feeding?
Boobs and babes took center stage Wednesday morning as nursing mothers held “nurse-ins” at Target stores across the country to assert their right to breast-feed their children in public.
A Groupon for Breast Milk?
Groupon offers deep discounts on food and drink, but historically, breast milk has not been on the menu.
Should Pumping at Work Get You Fired? ACLU Says No
In theory, how a mother feeds her baby is up to her. Breast-feeding? Pumped breast milk? Formula? Maybe some of each, but a woman’s decision should not be dictated by her employer, argues the American Civil Liberties Union …
Study: Breast-Feeding May Lower Babies’ SIDS Risk
The benefits of breast-feeding seem limitless. It’s been linked to improved brain development and better immunity in babies; less postpartum depression and lower cancer risk in mothers; and better mother-infant bonding. Now a new review of recent research offers another reason for new mothers to nurse: protection against sudden infant …
Is Breast Milk the Key to Mother-Baby Bonding?
The secret to mother-baby bonding might be breast milk, according to new research that determines that breast-feeding mothers are more likely than formula-feeding moms to bond with their infants in the months after they’re …
Milk Banks vs. Milk Swaps: Breast Milk’s Latest Controversy
Breast-feeding is a demanding undertaking. It takes time, and lots of it, and some mothers are barely able to produce enough milk. But others find themselves with milk to share, and these days, they’re being wooed by two very …
Can Breast Milk Predict Cancer Risk?
I’m attending the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Orlando, Fla., where an interesting study was presented Monday about the potential of breast milk to help, of all things, prevent cancer.
Study: Breast-Feeding Improves Academic Performance, Especially for Boys
Evidence for the long-term benefits of breast-feeding — well beyond infancy — continue to grow.