As we have been doing these days, we are rescuing the best posts of each theme that we have published throughout the year to offer them concentrated in a single post.
It is the turn of breastfeeding, one of the most frequent topics in our blog, from which we defend it, we promote it and inform you so that you can have a happy breastfeeding if you have decided. We offer you the best tips on breastfeeding 2012.
Everything you need to know to have a happy breastfeeding
If you have decided to breastfeed your baby, the most valuable tool to get it is the information, so we tell you everything you need to know to have a happy breastfeeding.
How to be a passive witness to the failure of a breastfeeding
We tell you the case of a mother who decides to breastfeed the baby, but despite trying, she fails to carry it out. The story of a failed breastfeeding.
I have seen nursing rooms that you could not believe
There are really unfortunate breastfeeding rooms that do not deserve that name. For breastfeeding to be normalized, the spaces must also adapt to it.
"The 5 steps to succeed in your breastfeeding," a downloadable book essential for the future mom
In your moment we recommend Pilar Martínez's book, which can not be missing in the library. She is a pharmacist, lactation consultant, mother of two girls and also author of the Maternity Continuum blog. Also from the same author, we recommend "Weaning without tears", a book to stop breastfeeding without suffering.
Ten facts about breastfeeding
We offered ten facts about breastfeeding that WHO exposes to actively promote breastfeeding as the best source of nutrients for infants and young children.
How to do manual breast milk extraction (video)
An explanatory video that teaches the technique for express milk manually, without the need for breast pumps. Many mothers prefer it for comfort and because it reduces the possibility of contamination.
Four basic postures to breastfeed the baby (video)
Another explanatory video about the most used positions to breastfeed the baby. There are different positions, it's just a matter of trying which ones you and your baby are most comfortable with.
"Breastfeeding has to be on demand, no matter if five minutes or five hours have passed." Interview with Mónica García Calzada (I)
We interview a lactation consultant, mother of four children and a member of the Nacentia team, a private natural childbirth clinic, who gives us the best advice to breastfeed the baby without stress.
Oh, but is it that pediatricians are not lactation consultants?
They should be, but often pediatricians are the first to attempt breastfeeding, not providing important information, or worse, sometimes misinformation. We reflect on the role of pediatricians in breastfeeding.
Myths about breastfeeding: "With a C-section the rise in breast milk takes longer"
We have shot down some of the false myths that are about breastfeeding, such as the one related to caesarean section or others also extended, which causes hair to fall out, or that babies make fewer shots as the months go by.
In times of crisis the state should invest more in breastfeeding
We put ourselves in another position to talk about the importance of the State investing in breastfeeding, both in providing information, such as training for professionals, promotion and any action that helps increase the percentage of mothers who breastfeed their children.
You can be "very mother" and not breastfeed
And finally, the analysis of a controversial article that questioned whether the mother who does not breastfeed is "less mother" than the one who does not. Of course, we believe that even without breastfeeding you can be a wonderful mother, attached and affectionate.
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