Adoption is a lot of things. It is a prism. It is an hourglass. It is dark cave. It is a light at the end of a terrifying tunnel. It is a beginning.
Breastfeeding whenever, wherever a child is hungry is an integral component of breastfeeding success. To take that away is to inhibit mothers who only want to do right by their child.
The truth is, all those people I consulted should have been able to take one look at my chest and know that breastfeeding might be difficult, if not impossible, for me.
Obsessing about breastfeeding was a luxury I simply did not have. With my first child, I was grieving for my Mom. With my second, I was too terrified, just trying to make it through my days.
The benefits of breastfeeding are many. But let me also tell you some of the things that can seriously suck about breastfeeding.
The controversy over the Berjuan nursing doll underscores that Americans still have a long way to go to accept breastfeeding as normal. What makes feeding your baby doll with a toy bottle OK, and breastfeeding your doll not OK?
Is breastfeeding better than formula feeding? Every mother contemplates this question. Many instinctively "feel" that breastfeeding will lead to bette...
I was sitting in a booth at the local Chinese restaurant and doing what I do all the time: baby watching. I am a frustrated grandfather wanna-be. I lo...
I'm afraid that if it's found out, in Park Slope, that I buy my baby's food in jars, the Stroller Mafia will set up a picket line outside our building with candles and vigils and big signs stapled to sticks.
