Breastfeeding
Neither goat’s milk nor cow’s milk can adequately replace breast milk or infant formula. Children under one year of age need an approved infant formula if not breast fed. Premature infants will likely need supplementation with a specialized formula in addition to breast feeding.
Links & Resources
- Drinking while breastfeeding tied to cognitive problems in young kids (website)
- Breastfeeding could help a mother’s heart–in more ways than you think (website)
- 2016 CDC Breastfeeding Report Card (pdf)
- Medications & Mothers' Milk 2017 (website)
The Essential Reference for Professionals Working with Breastfeeding Mothers - Jessica Shortall TED Talk (website)
We need women to work, and we need working women to have babies. So why is America one of the only countries in the world that offers no national paid leave to new working mothers? In this incisive talk, Jessica Shortall makes the impassioned case that the reality of new working motherhood in America is both hidden and horrible: millions of women, every year, are forced back to work within just weeks of giving birth. Her idea worth spreading: the time has come for us to recognize the economic, physical and psychological costs of our approach to working mothers and their babies, and to secure our economic future by providing paid leave to all working parents.