Healthy Children Project Center for Breastfeeding
I just finished watching the Happy Birth Day series, a vignette of real birth experiences produced and filmed by Healthy Children Project’s Dr. Kajsa Brimdyr, PhD, CLC and Emmy nominated producer Judy Blatchford with my two- and four- year-old-daughters… I am so excited to give birth again! For me, watching these mothers, their partners and …
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“The shortest distance between two people is a story.” I flung myself into motherhood before I knew very much about infant development. When my firstborn was only a few weeks old and she would wake throughout the night, I would nurse her and then I’d carry her to the couch and I would read to …
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In Western culture, we tend to trust the process of pregnancy and the capability of a human body to grow and nourish a fetus, but there’s a moment between then and the approaching birth of the baby and beyond when that confidence is lost. Among other reasons, loss of trust in the female body forces …
–This post is part of our 10-year anniversary series “Breastfeeding is…”— Breastfeeding is eco-friendly. Planetary protection has never been more crucial, and the undeniable relationship between planetary health and human health has never been more evident. In November 2022, world leaders, policy-makers and delegates from nearly 200 countries attended the COP27 UN climate summit, held …
Near the Amtrak Station in Milwaukee, there used to be an encampment created by people without housing. It went by the moniker “Tent City”. My kids and I used to pass by it often; and they had a lot of questions about the space and the people who stayed there. I remember doing my best …
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