Lactation

If they told you to emulate the movements babies make when breastfeeding, what gesture would you make? Surely you would take the nose out and start raising them up and down, similar to how we see babies sucking pacifiers. However, breast sucking is very different from this gesture, and it is made up of various instinctive movements among which one stands out above the others: the tongue making a wave.

Extravagant things have been seen in Burning Man, the world's most psychedelic electronic music festival held every year in the Nevada desert. But who has given the note this edition has been Miki Agrawal, a woman who gave her breast milk to the festival participants. He has shared on his Instagram account some curious photos taken at the festival wearing a breastfeeding top with two bottles connected to a breast pump that he pumped every three hours.

Kaley Munday, author of the Munday Mornings blog just gave birth to a baby a few weeks ago who they called Reese Kristine. He also has two more children, the eldest, a boy, and the middle one a girl named Quinny. A few days ago, the mother shared on Instagram the most tender video of her daughter pretending to "breastfeed" her newborn sister to calm her.

A few days ago the story of a mother surprised many people who did not know that something like this could happen, by telling on the Breastfeeding Mama Talk Facebook page that for weeks she had been pumping milk for her baby and that when she took it out of the freezer she realized that her little one didn't love her, because she smelled sour and had a rancid taste.

One of the things that should be solved with relative urgency is that of women's maternity leave, which in Spain is only 16 weeks. A very short time if we consider that the current recommendations say that it is best for babies to be exclusively breastfed during the first 6 months of life.

Dressed as the villain of "Sleeping Beauty," the Venezuelan photographer based in Miami, Yaki Di Roma, has become Maleficent to self-portrait by breastfeeding her son, three-year-old Hans, who has autism. With her, she intends to normalize prolonged breastfeeding and demonstrate that even the most cruel being wants the best for her babies.

There are several reasons why you choose to give a bottle to a baby, among which are hypogalactia (which is very rare but it is real), the presence of problems during breastfeeding or that the mother should return to work once Your maternity leave is over. Whatever the reason we should bottle feed our baby, sometimes we may encounter a problem we did not expect: to reject it.

You know that your milk is the best food you can give your baby, you inform yourself and you are ready to offer it when it is born. But breastfeeding is not always a path of roses, complications can arise, such as the baby does not hold well, it hurts, the baby cries and you cry because you have spent hours trying in a thousand ways.

Leilani Rogers is the photographer behind the Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project "Breastfeeding in real life" project involving more than 60 photographers from around the world and defending breastfeeding in public. It aims to normalize breastfeeding through the dissemination of beautiful images of mothers breastfeeding their babies in public places.

Do you know when you think an article has been invented just for you? It is what is happening with Ta-Ta-Towel, a towel to hold the breasts that is causing anger among women, and especially among recent mothers. The invention was created by Erin Robertson with the idea of ​​solving the problem of sweat under the breasts and thus keeping them dry, as well as looking for a comfortable alternative to the bra to walk around the house.

Just as each woman lives her motherhood in a unique and different way, each mother experiences a different breastfeeding than others. For some it can be a wonderful experience, while for others it could be something very sad. All those faces of breastfeeding are those shown in the "Sincere breastfeeding" campaign, in which we can see 18 mothers from Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Spain speaking with total honesty about their experiences, good or bad, with breastfeeding

On the occasion of the World Breastfeeding Week, which is celebrated from August 1 to 7, WHO together with UNICEF and the Global Breastfeefing Collective NGO presented a report that ensures that half of the newborns are exclusively breastfed Until six months, life could be saved to more than 800.

We know that breast milk has many benefits for both the baby and the mother, that the milk of all mothers is good and that the World Health Organization recommends exclusively breastfeeding until six months and continue breastfeeding until two years or more However, despite all this information, Mexico is one of the countries with the lowest breastfeeding rates.

Breastfeeding is a unique and wonderful experience. It allows you to have a magical connection with your baby and brings great benefits for both. However, not everything is rosy: in some cases it can be difficult and in others it can make us spend some somewhat embarrassing or funny moments.

Today there is a lot of advice and information to achieve a successful breastfeeding, however, there are still myths about the existence of foods that increase the production of breast milk and constantly appear new "super foods" to which they are attributed the power to do so . The most recent is not a food, but a drink.

On July 17, World Emoji Day was celebrated, and what better opportunity than to present the new emoticons that we can find very soon on our keyboards? Apple has taken advantage of this day to show us some of the emoticons that will be released with iOS 11, which will arrive in the coming months.

Breastfeeding is an act of love between mom and baby, which currently still struggles to be seen as normal among society. We believe that breastfeeding is something that should be freely done in public, as we have seen in various campaigns and more recently when an Australian senator filed a motion in Parliament while breastfeeding her baby.

It is quite evident that the best known people are the ones who can get to normalize certain issues or spread messages, not only because of the scope of their words and publications, but because in many ways they are role models and even inspire others. people. One of the women who occasionally disseminates issues related to motherhood is Pink, the well-known singer, who yesterday shared this photo breastfeeding in "multitasking mode", but also in the double sense, because even her son helps her To be more beautiful.

A few weeks ago, a woman was expelled from a pool in Zaragoza while breastfeeding her three-year-old daughter. As the mother explained, she was sitting out of the water breastfeeding the girl when the lifeguard told her that she could not do it because of the risk that this practice entailed in contaminating the water in the pool.

There are several reasons that can lead a mother to decide to wean her baby. If after having assessed and consulted in a breastfeeding support group - in case there is a problem that could be put on track -, the mother continues with the idea of ​​weaning her child, it is best to start small.