Tag Archives: formula
Breast Milk & Beauty Pageants
Mrs. United States Katie Garza (and the newest Best for Babes Champion for Moms), is using her title to further the human milk cause. Continue reading
Last revised on 10/15/2015
Miracle Milk® Helps Heal Brain Injured, Formula-Fed Baby
The science is clear: Our very own mom-made Miracle Milk® provides perfect and customized nutrition and lifelong protection against many illnesses and diseases. But one exciting question is still unanswered: can breast milk be used medicinally as treatment in babies … Continue reading
Last revised on 02/11/2013
Science You Can Use: Nipple shields to kill HIV? Breastmilk as a model for an HIV vaccine? 2012 in breastfeeding and HIV research
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding is a significant source of new infections in the developing world - accounting for as many as half of the 350,000 new pediatric infections each year world wide. But in developing countries not breastfeeding … Continue reading
Last revised on 12/18/2012
Booby Trap Series: If you need to supplement with formula, avoid these Booby Traps
This post is the 58th in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. Sometimes supplementing a breastfed baby is necessary in the early days and weeks after birth.* When it is, it’s … Continue reading
Last revised on 10/23/2012
It’s Not Just About Breastfeeding
This Mother’s Day post is dedicated to the millions of moms who don’t or can’t breastfeed. I am now one of them since breast cancer took my breasts, at age 37. It’s for all of the moms who decide not to breastfeed, … Continue reading
Last revised on 05/05/2012
“Breastfeeding Failure” is an Oxymoron
Lately I’ve been wondering if “breastfeeding failure” is an oxymoron. I mean, to fail at something don’t you need to have a predetermined understanding of what failure is and what success is? Must you not be able to assess and … Continue reading
Last revised on 11/03/2011
The Babe’s Guide to Bottle Feeding
Unlike breastfeeding, we’ve all seen bottle feeding, and we all know how to do it. We’ve been surrounded by it growing up. If someone handed you a baby and a bottle you would know what to do right? Of course … Continue reading
Last revised on 07/06/2011
From Dou-la-la…Breast is Best, Sponsored by Simfamil: Don Draper Explains It All For Us.
This post was originally published on Dou-la-la on 9/4/2010. We’re so glad she’s allowed us to share it here, too! INT: STERLING COOPER DRAPER PRYCE, DON DRAPER’s OFFICE. PEGGY OLSON and PETE CAMPBELL sit expectantly on the sofa, an easel bearing … Continue reading
Last revised on 06/13/2011
Is “Try Formula” the Answer to Breastfeeding Guilt?
“It’s okay to try formula, you know.” Those are the words our family doctor uttered when I burst into tears in her office when my first born child was four weeks old and still hadn’t latched on once. I’d been … Continue reading
Last revised on 05/31/2011
Babeworthy: Formula Companies Get Creative
Did you catch these Babeworthy stories in the news this week?! 1. Similac’s had an app for that for a few months and now Mead-Johnson, maker of Enfamil, is tossing their hat in the ring with their ExpectingBaby iPhone app. … Continue reading
Last revised on 05/27/2011