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Tuesday, August 9 2011 Breast milk is the perfect food for your baby. Many health organisations-including the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) – recommend that mothers breastfeed their newborn babies. Although doctors and experts agree that breast milk is best, some    .. more …

LAST SUNDAY’S Inquirer had a large banner headline photo showing a woman breastfeeding, as well as a smaller photo and articles to promote National Breastfeeding Month.All that brought back to me memories of the long struggles to promote breastfeeding in the Philippines, dating back to the late 1970s, with the Philippines often hailed as a pioneer for reforms.I never forgot one of the early    .. more …

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) — Exclusive breast-feeding of infants for four months or longer does not protect them against developing the itchy skin disorder known as eczema in childhood, new research shows.In exclusive breast-feeding, an infant receives only breast milk, with no additional food or drink, according to the World Health Organization. Exclusive breast-feeding up to 6 months    .. more …

8 August, 2011 – That the “educated” mothers in Bhutan choose bottle feeding to breast feeding has come as a blow to the efforts the health ministry has been making on the importance of breastfeeding, health officials said.Bhutan Multiple Indicator Survey, 2010 found that the “rich” and “highly educated mothers” bottle fed their babies even though they were expected to know more on the benefits    .. more …

THURSDAY, May 5 ( HealthDay News ) — Babies who are still drinking from a bottle at 2 years of age may be prone to obesity by the time they turn 5, a new study suggests.For the study, researchers analyzed data on 6,750 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort, which included kids from around the United States born in 2001.About 22 percent of the children    .. more …

A foreign correspondent in Thailand must accept that stories apt to attract the most interest from Western readers must revolve around one of the three Ps: protests, prostitutes or pachyderms.Were the phrasing more graceful, I might force a fourth subject onto that trio: perverse animal performances.If you long to see kickboxing orangutans or elephants playing soccer — or how about elephants    .. more …

Bottle feeding vs. breast feeding”what are your thoughts on which way to go? Is it really that much healthier to breast feed, and if you do, do you feel cheated because you are the one who has to get up each night? Jenny Wescoat I have breast fed all of my kids for about 15 months each. Lots of studies back up breast feeding as the healthier alternative, but I also think that maybe all that    .. more …

It’s 4:36 a.m. As I sit here at my computer typing this post, the sound of my breast pump hisses in the background.I’ve been up most of the night nursing my baby girl and trying to soothe her back to sleep. When I finish, I pump for a few minutes in an effort to increase my milk supply and preserve every precious last drop. Then I drift off to sleep for an hour or so before it’s time to start the    .. more …

A very cool thing this, the opportunity to be a regular blogger on The Huffington Post! My beat, the animals. As a brief introduction, I’ve had the great fortune to spend the past 30+ years working with and for the animals, here in the S.F. Bay Area as well as Arizona and even a couple of years in D.C. with one of the national organizations. A great career, earning my keep doing something I truly    .. more …

Farming fulfills family’s desires By Alicia Dill, Iowa Farmer Today Wednesday, June 8, 2011 2:11 PM CDT FARLEY — It’s 94 degrees outside in the heart of the Cornbelt and Nolan Strief, almost 6 years old, is bottle feeding a calf.It’s one of his favorite ways to help on the family dairy farm near here. Sorting calves, riding on the four-wheeler and feeding the “big cows” are the other things    .. more …