According to today’s Times, they also have a ‘Lactation’ room at their Seattle HQs for breastfeeding mothers. Sadly, not for the store clerks. I love their gingerbread with yogurt topping that comes out around...

as THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Oxytocin and endorphins are the hormones of well-being, bonding, and trust and are pivotal hormones in orgasm, labor, birth and breast-feeding." My understanding is that a woman’s...

exposure in the womb and during breast-feeding influences human reproductive development." Suzy, who happily drives her SUV to pick up beef at the neighborhood supermarket, and is very grateful for animal-based research. Link: http

I remembered stories based upon this study (and, I think, others): American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 88, No. 3, 789-796, September 2008 "Associations of maternal fish intake during pregnancy and breastfeeding duration...

Is this another opportunity for a vegetarian debate? Don’t eat food you slaughter? Or even furs? Survival techniques of Eskimos? That could take decades. Maybe we all should have been born eating soy instead of breastfeeding?

It would be interesting if there was a study done looking for connections between taste cravings and what we drank as infants. Breastfeeding seems very strongly encouraged these days.

If you are breastfeeding, best to stay away from very spicy foods and foods heavy on bell peppers and cucumbers until she is getting a bit of solid food as well. Although all the women in my family say they sure don’t mind...

of the human body: while I was pregnant and breastfeeding, I wan’t intolerant at all! Sorry that is not an option for you, Ramon, unless you’re posing as a man. Anybody else have this happen to them?

. But to be nice, I kept on eating. HUGE mistake. I got so sick for so long that I ended up in the ER with docs trying to figure out if it was safe for me to keep on breastfeeding. Honestly, I was sick for a week because by the...

raising chowish children: make sure to eat a nice broad variety of good food while you’re breastfeeding so you’ll give your baby a good palate... some Italians believe getting a sweetened, milky version of all sorts...

I, too, lost 30 lbs the week my son was born, but I seem to have gained about 10 back over the 5 months since then, despite breastfeeding (seemingly constantly!). And everything seems to have found a new home, compared to...