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It’s not you, mama. It’s the absence of the village.

Amazing.

Is the Western way of raising kids weird? From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them

The Study I've Waiting for Is Finally Here! — Nancy Mohrbacher Is there a specific approach to early positioning that nursing families can use to reduce by half the incidence of ni**le and breast problems? Yes, according to THIS brand-new randomized controlled trial from Italy. This New Italian Study

Love the positive stories and context this article gives to bed-sharing.

Co-sleeping: Celebrating families that share a bed Sharing the wisdom of fathers and mothers who co-sleep – in their own words

Pre-labour Rupture of Membranes: impatience and risk Updated: July 2019 Amniotic sac and fluid play an important role in the labour process and usually remain intact until the end of labour. However, around 10% of women will …

In 1929 Ge**er began an advertising campaign to convince dieticians and pediatricians that canned baby food was just as nutritious as homemade food, and even better because it was scientifically prepared.
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As part of the campaign, doctors received free Ge**er products for patients. Ge**er also funded research touting the health benefits of their food. That research—vaguely worded and devoid of peer review—was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, positioning it as scientific fact.
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Alongside these efforts, Ge**er stated that women who prepared their own baby food were neglecting their husbands—and babies. One 1933 ad read, “For Baby’s Sake, Stay Out of the Kitchen!”
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Alongside these efforts, Ge**er advocated for starting solids at 3 months old. And by the 1950’s—after 20 years of advertising—the average age of introducing solids fell to just 6 weeks old.💔
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Since then the medical community realized that too-early introduction of solids displaced valuable nutrition from breast milk/formula. The consensus among medical institutions today (AAP, U.S. National Institutes for Health, and World Health Organization) is that it’s best to introduce solids at 6 months old. It is at this time that most babies are developmentally ready to eat and need more iron. Conveniently, 6 months is also when babies are capable of feeding themselves.
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Baby food was invented. Mom guilt was marketed.
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There is no perfect order of introducing solids. No no need for “stages” of thickness. These were all constructs in the name of profit.
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Convenience has its place. I love a good yogurt pouch and rely on Cheerios when traveling. But the idea that real food has to be hard isn’t good for anyone. Babies don’t need banana pudding or pricey pouches—a banana is fine!
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There is a reason feeding feels complicated. Corporations spent the last century telling your grandmothers and great-grandmothers that they would be bad moms and wives if they didn’t buy pre-prepared baby food. So the next time you feel a twinge of guilt for feeding your baby YOUR way, remember that it’s not you. It’s history.

The surprising effects of pregnancy Discover how pregnancy changes every organ in the body— from the heart, to the brain and kidneys— and what we still don’t know about it. -- Muscles and joint...

Too often, pregnancy loss is a taboo topic, leaving women who have experienced it suffering in silence. By sharing her experience, Chrissy Teigen is not only shedding light on just how common miscarriage is, but helping to end the stigma around talking about it.

Chrissy Teigen Has Ignited an Important Conversation Around Miscarriage In the face of unimaginable loss, Teigen continues to help other women feel less alone.

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New research finds omega-3 fatty acids reduce the risk of premature birth Premature birth is the leading cause of death for children under 5 years old worldwide, accounting for close to one million deaths annually.

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All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four month old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb, and she in turn formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother's blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.

~ Layne Redmond, When The Drummers Were Women

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