I’ve posted this photo before, but love this picture of our youngest baby so much, I thought I’d use it again. (He’s almost four now!)
Have you seen the below posts about the best options when feeding your baby? It was time to compile them into one easy spot…
- Breastfeeding JOYS & STRUGGLES – it’s not always as easy as it might look.
- Thank God the La Leche League brought Breastfeeding back
- Newborn advice part 2 – What to feed your baby (part 1 was how to get sleep with a newborn and here is more general parenting advice)
- Breastfeeding and pumping, how did that go for you? (I never could pump!)
- Weston Price Foundation guide for feeding babies
- Parenting Babies/Natural Mothering – see who you agree with on this topic — should babies be on a strict schedule or no?
- Nina Planck on Deidre Currie and donating breast milk – a heart wrenching story, but neat in a way, too.
- Natural, Healthy, Green Mothering – (lots of baby feeding info here along with more goodies)
- Also, see the comments at this post for advice to a Mom who has a baby that she fears is too small.
- More about FEEDING KIDS in this post
- Here’s some good info from Jenny with advice if you were told to give soy formula to babies with acid reflux issues/GERD.
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Thanks for the inclusion! It can be hard to feel like you’re feeding your child well and properly when information (mostly contradictory) is coming at you from all different angles.
Jenny @ Nourished Kitchen
Jenny, I sent you a few emails recently, did you get them?
Kelly
My ‘baby’ is 12 now and I still feel flashes of guilt wondering if I fed her well when she was new. It feels like there is more information and more choices now than there was in the late ’90s. Not sure if that makes it easier or tougher for new moms. Blogs like yours (and the ones you compiled above) are certainly a huge help.
Kitty Krueger
Kitty, my baby is 17 and I have the same flashes of guilt. But they’re only flashes, because I was just doing what I was told by my doctor. (If only I’d had someone who could help me through those first weeks breastfeeding I wouldn’t have had to put him on the nasty commercial formulas!) I just wish at the time I didn’t blindly follow everything my doc said and instead do my own research! I can’t change it now, I can only hope we switched our eating habits in time, and that he *eventually* gets all the way on board with us and chooses well after he moves out someday…
Kelly, this is such an important topic. Here in the south, babies are still weaned on Coca Cola, and I see so many children where I work who subsist on only processed, sugar and corn-based foods. It is essential to start early, and young moms often need guidance. Thanks for putting it all together!
good links. the giant google ad below, however, is for wal-mart brand formula:(
Oh great. As soon as I see it I can block it. It’s not there now.
If anyone sees it again, please get me the exact web address.
Thanks,
Kelly
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