Aug
Get your “breastfeeding game on” with this unique new book
Breastfeeding with Comfort & Joy
This book is the perfect blend of images and information. The concept is unique–use photos of real mothers and babies doing just that…breastfeeding with comfort and joy. These images are so reassuring, so inspiring, the fact that they are also instructional feels almost subliminal. Author, Laura Keegan, RN, F.N.P. covers the basics like latch, positions, how often to feed baby, engorgement and the like, but she also covers breastfeeding twins and, our favorite, the importance of skin-to-skin contact.
This is a beautiful book and would make a wonderful gift for a new mother. It is available only through the author’s website and blog
04Aug
Booby-Trapped, Life-saving Devices
It happens everyday. From the subtle and subliminal messaging that occurs when formula companies get your name off a baby shower registry and send you coupons for formula while you are still pregnant, to the far reaching social discomfort and disapproval breastfeeding mothers experience when they try to breastfeed their babies anywhere but in the privacy of their own home.
*Booby-traps* are everywhere for the breastfeeding mother-baby, but if Best for Babes has anything to say about it, that is going to change! Just read their mission statement:
“To help moms beat the “Booby Traps” the cultural & institutional barriers that prevent moms from achieving their personal breastfeeding goals. To inspire, prepare & empower™ moms. To give breastfeeding a makeover and give moms the solutions they need to make it work!”
This new organization’s website is chock full of great information about breastfeeding, but mostly, we find it inspiring and celebratory snd just plain FUN. Check out Best for Babes instructions for new moms to ensure they are ready to “Get Your Best Game On, Girlfriend!”
What Booby Traps have you experienced and how did you overcome them?