• Created on 5/20/10 by Mothering Editorial

I am currently breastfeeding my 13 month old and I really enjoy it, but I want to wean her off the night feedings and I don't know how. I was told to give her water but trust me she knows the difference and screams until I give her the breast and she doesn't always nurse long enough to get the let down at night. Should she still be nursing at night or should she be sleeping through the night? She only occasionally needs to breastfeed to go to sleep, shes is pretty easy in that department. I am just ready for a good night sleep! Please help! read more

• Created on 5/17/10 by mamazee

Dear Mamas, Please tell me what you think of this idea. In the course of reading comments I have been very touched by hearing from women who want to cloth diaper but are really low on funds and can’t afford to get that stash together. If you have some cloth diapers that your baby has grown out of, would you be interested in being matched up with a cloth diapering-wannabe mama who is in need of receiving some? I’d be willing to put you in touch with each other. Let me know. UPDATE: What a great response! So far I’ve matched up 27 mamas in need... read more

• Created on 5/15/10 by Mothering Editorial

I'm a breastfeeding mama of an 11 month-old and we've had thrush numerous times. Although the baby doesn't appear to have thrush any longer, for the past three months I've had an itchy red area on my breast tissue and my nipples are irritated and sore. My husband also feels like he has yeast in his mouth. The pediatrician says the baby is fine, but recently I've noticed that he seems to have strong stomach pains during the night. Also, yesterday a rash appeared on my thighs...maybe that's yeast too. Doctors have treated us with nystatin and fluconazole, but the yeast... read more

• Created on 5/12/10 by Mothering Blogger

by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department on Womens Health, is having a contest to choose the cover photo for an update of its Easy Guide to Breastfeeding. I popped over there when I saw the notice on Twitter and thought the choices weren’t very interesting. They are generic photos, none of which clearly show a latched baby. I decided not to vote because I didn’t like any of the three choices. There was something just plain vanilla about all three. Elita over at... read more

• Created on 5/10/10 by Mothering Blogger

by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter. The workplace pumping provision of the federal health care bill sounds like great news for women who pump breast milk in the workplace. Who could complain about a federal requirement that all employers give reasonable unpaid breaks to employees who need to pump for their nursing infants? On closer examination of what the law actually does, I think many of you will complain. On its face, the new law, Section 207 (r) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), requires unpaid break time for... read more

• Created on 5/10/10 by Mothering Editorial

Extend Breastfeeding's Benefits: Notes Issue 144 September/October 2007 1. Nutrition Committee, Canadian Paediatric Society, Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants: Statement of the Joint Working Group: Canadian Paediatric Society, Dietitians of Canada and Health Canada (Ottawa: Minister of Public Works and Government Services, 2005): www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/pubs/infant-nourrisson/nut_infant_nourrisson_term_e.html. 2. Michael S. Kramer, MD, and Ritsuko Kakuma, MSc, The Optimal Duration of Exclusive Breastfeeding: A Systematic Review (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2002).... read more

• Created on 5/9/10 by Mothering Editorial

May 10, 2010 Mothering had been awarded a Maggie Award for the Best Signed Editorial or Essay from a consumer publication for Publisher and Editor Peggy O'Mara's thoughtful editorial "Case Closed: Breast is Best." Mothering Magazine was nominated in two categories for the Western Publishing Association's (WPA) 2010 Maggie Awards this year. The Annual Maggie awards ceremony and black-tie dinner is the most prestigious publishing event in the West. Over 600 publishing professionals gather to honor excellence in print and electronic publishing in over 100... read more

• Created on 5/8/10 by mamazee

Leone is growing so fast that the peach fuzz on her head looks longer from one day to the next. She’s got a little bang in front now, like Tintin. And her eyelashes have grown long and unruly. But the biggest change since she turned six months old five days ago is that she suddenly has so much purpose. She knows what she wants and she tries to get it, a look of serious concentration on her face. When I have a cup filled with water and I take a sip, Leone fixates on the cup, grabs at it with both hands, and shoves it towards her mouth. She smacks... read more

• Created on 5/8/10 by Mothering Editorial

By Kittie FrantzIssue 132, September/October 2005 When I became a grandmother, I considered myself lucky. I was a practicing pediatric nurse-practitioner and teaching in a university; as new studies came along that suggested making changes in the way people parented, I could understand and accept them from a medical point of view without feeling invalidated as a mother. The trend that most disturbs me is the notion that it is unnecessary, almost wrong, to soothe your baby by breastfeeding. I am puzzled when I hear the advice to never breastfeed your baby to sleep.... read more

• Created on 5/5/10 by emilyfrischmann

Every time I try to use cloth for overnight for my 6 month old son, he gets a yeast infection rash. I use prefolds with snappies, bummies whisper wraps, and a stay-dry doubler made of fleece and terry cloth at night. I always end up putting him back in disposables at night because after about 2 nights, he ends up with a bad rash. What is a good overnight system? There are two things that come to mind when I read your question.  First, that the rash only happens at night tells me that it is possibly not yeast.  Yeast would be living in the diapers all the time and... read more