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	Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy The average American may not be ready to admit it, but myriad cultures past and present have accepted the fact that babies past infancy can benefit from nursing.
	Breastfeeding My Jump-Roping Hula Hooper Ally, my five-year-old daughter, greets me after school by burying her nose in my cotton shirt, between my breasts, and inhaling. "Smells like Mommy," she says. "Nursie?"
	Mothering Radio: Breastfeeding & PPD In this episode, Mothering Radio explores breastfeeding and postpartum depression. Julie Grant interviews Kathleen Kendall-Tackett.
	A Nursing Triad When I nurse my daughter, she feels right again in my arms. When I nurse my son, he feels right, too. When I nurse them together I am overcome with love.
	Dear Lily A mother comes to terms with ending the nursing relationship between hereself and her daughter by remembering and writing a letter to her daughter.
	Breastfeeding in Whose Public? by Peggy O'Mara It is unnecessary to defend breastfeeding in public. To me, it's like walking in public. It's a basic human right.
	Busting Breastfeeding Myths Because young American women today grow up in a culture that bears the marks of decades of an officially orchestrated anti-breastfeeding campaign, to many of them breastfeeding remains strange and mildly disgusting.
	AIDS and Breastfeeding Allopathic medicine was at war with natural birth and childrearing for much of the last century, but the battles were most intense over breastfeeding.
	More Ways to Use Breastmilk From the treatment of acne to banishing, breastmilk has many medicinal uses.
	Extended Breastfeeding I attempted to wean my son, Caleb, at 12 months because most of the articles I'd read stated that a mother should breastfeed for six months to a year. When I hit the one-year mark, I thought I'd met my goal, but Caleb had different ideas.
	Breast is Best Yesterday I received an e-mail, signed "Wavering Somewhat," from the nursing mom of a 26-month-old daughter. The mom had read Hanna Rosin's "The Case Against Breast-Feeding," an article published in the April 2009 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, and was now questioning the benefits of breastfeeding over formula.
	Medications and Breastfeeding With few exceptions, most drugs can be safely used by breastfeeding mothers. So the decision about whether to take the drug and breastfeed is really up to each mother.
	Hold Me Close: The Many Advantages to Wearing Your Baby My son has only ridden in a stroller a few times. Instead, he has spent his days snuggled up to me in a variety of baby carriers.
	Cosleeping and Breastfeeding: the perfect combination Because the human infant's body continues to be adapted to the mother's body, cosleeping with nighttime breastfeeding remains clinically significant and potentially lifesaving.
	Working It Out: Encouraging Nursing is Good Business The potential savings to businesses are large. Women who continue to breastfeed after returning to work miss less time and have shorter absences.
	Successful Latching On The baby's hold on your areola with her mouth is called latching on. Latching on properly will ensure that the baby gets enough milk without hurting your nipples.
	Seashells There is no substitute for learning proper latching and baby-holding techniques from an expert, but the most surprising tip for me was to place seashells on my nipples.
	The Photograph I continued to revel in the moment, my mind's eye clicking with the camera: the smell of my baby girl, the dimly lit room, the quick and gentle rhythm of her suckle. This is what I was made for.
	Taking Down the Bottle The incidences of bottle homage are often subtle enough that we do not see them. They operate as a sort of smokescreen.
	Don't Trash Our Bodies! With studies pointing to toxins in breastmilk, one might wonder: Is breastfeeding still the best choice for our babies? The answer is, unequivocally, yes.
	Shoulder Releasers Two poses that help relieve upper body tension.
	My Life As A Nursing Mom My son's first birthday loomed, and I braced myself for battle with my family, all demanding to know when I was finally going to stop breastfeeding this child.
	To Wean or Not to Wean: Who Says When Is Enough While extended breastfeeding is not the societal norm in the US, many doctors, health experts, and even mothers believe that it should be. And the research agrees with them.
	Lessons in Public Breastfeeding How one woman triumphed over cultural shame and claimed her right to nurse.
	Breathing In It took such a deep commitment, and often it was such hard work to just sit still. I considered nursing to be my spiritual work.

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