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Tips to
write your own story.
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of stories found on this site.
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feel about breastfeeding?
Barbara's Articles
A
Secret Relationship
In the Public Eye
Is
Breastfeeding Truly Best?
Overcoming Childbirth Fears
Parenting in the Dark
Where's
Dad in all This?
What Does Childbirth Have to do with Breastfeeding
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Breastfeeding a baby is not always easy. Advice and information are
crucial, but sometimes you just need support, understanding and a window
into the day-to-day (and night-to-night!) reality of nursing and nurturing
your children. Maybe you're expecting your first child and have never nursed
before. Maybe you have a newborn and never realized that breastfeeding
doesn't always come easily. Maybe you're nursing a two year old but
don't feel a lot of support from those around you. Or maybe you're
just finding the whole experience to be something to be overwhelming - in
ways both wonderful and challenging.
Breastfeeding affects
our mothering, our family relationships, our identities as women, mothers,
and lovers, and our physical and emotional well-being. Yet at
the same time,
most of us living in the
United States - and in many other western countries, as well - discover that
our experiences and perceptions are influenced by a culture that often makes
it difficult to establish and maintain a satisfying nursing relationship.
If you're lucky, you
feel supported and appreciated. But if you don't, you're not alone.
Overall, there is a lack of public understanding that breastfeeding involves
more than nutrition, immunology and health, but is also about comfort,
security and connection.
The Breastfeeding
Cafe's Parents' Lounge is - I hope - a place where you can find some of the
support and information you need.
Take the
quiz as a way to see how
you really feel about breastfeeding.
Answer a few quick
questions to test
your "breastfeeding IQ."
Barbara writes about breastfeeding, childbirth, parenting practices,
and the connections between them.
Click here to read some of her articles.
New ones are added every
month.
Read some of the
stories.
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consultant's corner.
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someone you care about with a gift from
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Boutique.
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offering a wealth of resources and information.
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