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	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.
	Mothering Radio: Breastfeeding & PPD In this episode, Mothering Radio explores breastfeeding and postpartum depression. Julie Grant interviews Kathleen Kendall-Tackett.
	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.
	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.
	One Breast is Enough My breastfeeding tale is fairly unremarkable compared to those of other breastfeeding mothers, but my situation is different--I am a unilateral nursing mother.
	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.
	Good News for Breastfeeding Moms: Treating and Preventing Thrush A common cause of breastfeeding failure, and one that often goes undiagnosed, is yeast overgrowth.
	Isabel and the Angry Itch Does Poison Ivy Really Mean Weaning? Instinct and will keep a child from an abrupt end to breastfeeding.
	Traveling with Breastmilk The challenges of traveling without children, but with expressed breastmilk.
	Two Pairs and a Trio: Breastfeeding Twins Breastfeeding mothers since the beginning of time have felt the sensation of completeness while nursing--two halves to a whole. But there is more to my story, an unexpected dimension.
	The Good News about Lactation After Breast Surgery If you think having an augmentation or reduction means you can't nurse, think again.
	Breast Cancer Screening During Lactation Breastfeeding and meaningful mammography are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
	Breastfeeding Miracle Beth reminds me that breastfeeding triplets is hard enough, never mind three babies with cleft lips.
	Have Breasts Will Travel: Nursing Discreetly In Public I talked with ten mothers with a collective 60 years of experience in breastfeeding in every public place imaginable. They shared their tips on how they happily--and, usually, easily--nursed their children in public.
	The Most Difficult Promise After an induced labor, the author vows to allow her daughter to grow (and wean) at her own pace.
	Breastfeeding Molly The touching story of a determined mother who would not give up, and a child who continues to grow.
	AZT Roulette: The Impossible Choices Facing HIV-Positive Women When Kris Chmiel was pregnant with her second child, a movement had just gotten underway to test all pregnant women in the state of Colorado for HIV.
	Nursing Notes from an Ex-A-Type I proselytized, to anyone who I could tackle, that research, planning and organizing were the cornerstones of a productive life and after all, productivity equals happiness. Even through morning, noon and night sickness, pregnancy induced migraines and acne in places that I'm too embarrassed to mention, I held fast to my delusions. It wasn't until I went into premature labor, while in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 10 freeway, heading out of Los Angeles on the night before Thanksgiving, that I began to reconsider my worldview. This is not what I had planned. I was thirty-two weeks along.
	The Good News about Lactation after Breast Surgery: Notes Reference notes for the Mothering article "The Good News about Lactation After Breast Surgery"
	HIV and Breastfeeding: The Fear. The Misconceptions. The Facts. A look at the evidence regarding HIV and breastfeeding.
	HIV and Breastfeeding There is a serious debate now underway regarding the feeding of infants by mothers who are HIV positive. Factual information is scarce, and opinions tend to be strong.
	Breastfeeding Challenges Some breastfeeding mothers face challenges that are less common or more long-term. Mothering offers you resources, information and inspiring stories to encourage you and help you through problems and concerns you may face.

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