Starting Breast Feeding

You and your baby will soon take breast-feeding pleasurably for granted, but while you are getting used to it, mutual comfort is important. Clothes that open down the front, for example, make it easier... Read more

Some Early Breast Feeding Problems

Almost every woman has some problems or questions with breast-feeding in the first weeks after birth. Some of these are common and predictable and can be handled quite easily. Others are more serious and... Read more

Breast Feeding Basics

First Feedings You can help establish your milk supply and avoid some early breast-feeding problems by nursing your baby as soon after birth as possible and by allowing your baby to suckle frequently.... Read more

Breast Feeding

[picture] Some babies are born naturally “sucky” . . . Getting started with breast-feeding is not always easy. Just as many babies need to be tactfully shown how to use their sucking reflexes,... Read more

Feeding Your Baby

During pregnancy, a baby grows rapidly from a fertilized egg to a mature baby weighing around seven pounds. All the nutritional needs are met by his mother’s body. For the newborn, growth also continues... Read more

Feeding And Growing

By the time your baby is around two weeks old, he will have learned about feeding either at the breast or from a bottle. Those first confusing days, when neither of you knew quite what you were doing,... Read more