Babies Online - The Blog

Breastfeeding Articles & Information at Babies Online, The Blog

Babies Online has several thousand articles pertaining to Breastfeeding. While you can find our most recent articles listed below, we can't possibly post them all on one page! Help us give you the information you want by searching our site, blog, and forums below ...

What Breastfeeding information are you looking for?

Install The Babies Online Search Plugin

Most recent articles in the category Breastfeeding

Dioxins May Be To Blame For Breastfeeding Failures

Breastfeeding is the best for baby as well as for mommy. Yet, there are women out there for whom breastfeeding just wouldn’t work no matter how much they tried. Most often these women are confronted with frustration not to mention guilty feelings. “Where did I go wrong?” is the question always asked.
Researchers have now found [...]

Does non-breastfeeding present health risks to mom?

It’s a well-known fact. Breast milk is best for babies. In the process, mommy’s health is also benefited by reducing the risks of hormone-related diseases such as breast and cervical cancer.
Recent research indicates, however, that it’s not about the benefits of breastfeeding to mommy’s health. It’s more like the risks of not breastfeeding that should [...]

Before the Milk Comes

My friend told me a story about when she was pregnant and her milk suddenly showed up unexpectedly. She was out to lunch with her husband and mother-in-law when she suddenly realized everyone was staring at her chest.  She looked down and was horrified to see that her breasts were leaking milk right through her [...]

Donating breastmilk to cancer research

Here is another use for breastmilk – testing for breast cancer. And if you are nursing or are planning to in the coming year, you might just consider volunteering for this research program.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are looking volunteers who:

are breastfeeding or pumping breastmilk
who have had a breast biopsy previously or who [...]

Comfortably Nursing in Public

Do you nurse in public? When I first began breastfeeding my son, I was extremely shy about nursing in front of anyone. The last thing I wanted was for anyone to see any more skin than I might want to show someone, whether I was in public or even at home with guests. But after [...]

BabiesOnline Member?

Sign In Get your personalized weekly view.

Register Now for FREE

Personalized weekly pregnancy information and your babies first year, pregnancy journal, your own baby page to share with your friends and family and much more.

Enter baby's birth or due date:
Need our Due Date Calculator?
People Are Talking
BabiesOnline Blog  |  Forums
RSS Subscribe to our articles and updates:
Add to Google Add to My Yahoo! Add to My AOL

Be Our Friend
Myspace Facebook Stumble Upon @Babiesonline

Bookmark and Share

Featured in Alltop

Number of readers following the Babies Online Blog