h, chia pudding, fclo, even just an omega 3 supplement will help. Green smoothies, coconut milk, nettle tea, protein supplements - and lots of superfoods can also help nutrition-wise. Since the digestive system isn't finished forming until age 6-7, children also receive the most viable nutrients through liquid, so if breastmilk is no longer available, just keep that in mind, and try to plan some sort of liquid nourishment. Nature/God planned on humans being breastfed for the first 5-7 years, so if they are not, its best health-wise to somehow make up for it to the best of your ability.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Night Nourishment for babies / Toddlers / Preschoolers
If you do decide to wean early (before age 4) its best to make sure that they are getting brain nourishing food, especially before bedtime. Most night nourishment goes directly to growing and maintaining the brain (the brain grows 3x its size in the first 3-4 years of life). Giving them brain nourishing foods within 2 hours of bedtime also might help with night weaning. Avocados, coconut, fis
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Doctors - Don't lose our trust!
Rant about doctors:
Please, please educate yourself on Breastmilk! I keep hearing all these crazy myths that doctors spout as fact to women who are then pressured to follow the doctor's orders - even though those orders are usually steeped in ignorance, misinformation, and outright stupidity. The Hippocratic oath says Do no Harm - but so many (probably in the millions!) of women have had their breastfeeding relationship irreparably harmed by a doctor!
And then for me, its - well, if they don't know the BASICS of breastfeeding, what else do they not know? Can I really put my health and my life, much less my children's health and lives in this ignorant doctor's hands? How can you not know about the basics of the most primal lifegiving force of all - the beginnings of all medicine - the miracle that is breastmilk?
Can I trust this doctor with really knowing anything? I mean, if a doctor told me something completely, outrageously stupid, how can I trust that doctor? He/she would completlely lose my trust!
And I would hope that I would have the guts to tell him so!
Here's a great place to start with just the basics. This gives a list of what is actually in breastmilk.
http://www.analyticalarmadillo.co.uk/2010/10/ask-armadillo-whats-in-breastmilk-but.html
And of course, please browse
La Leche League
http://www.llli.org/resources.html?m=0
Kellymom
www.kellymom.com
Other Resources:
Please, please educate yourself on Breastmilk! I keep hearing all these crazy myths that doctors spout as fact to women who are then pressured to follow the doctor's orders - even though those orders are usually steeped in ignorance, misinformation, and outright stupidity. The Hippocratic oath says Do no Harm - but so many (probably in the millions!) of women have had their breastfeeding relationship irreparably harmed by a doctor!
And then for me, its - well, if they don't know the BASICS of breastfeeding, what else do they not know? Can I really put my health and my life, much less my children's health and lives in this ignorant doctor's hands? How can you not know about the basics of the most primal lifegiving force of all - the beginnings of all medicine - the miracle that is breastmilk?
Can I trust this doctor with really knowing anything? I mean, if a doctor told me something completely, outrageously stupid, how can I trust that doctor? He/she would completlely lose my trust!
And I would hope that I would have the guts to tell him so!
Here's a great place to start with just the basics. This gives a list of what is actually in breastmilk.
http://www.analyticalarmadillo.co.uk/2010/10/ask-armadillo-whats-in-breastmilk-but.html
And of course, please browse
La Leche League
http://www.llli.org/resources.html?m=0
Kellymom
www.kellymom.com
Other Resources:
International Breastfeeding Journal
www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/
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