Top Highlights

• Some Good Breastfeeding Websites llli.org—La Leche League International ilca.org—International Lactation Consultant Association usbreastfeeding.org—U.S. Breastfeeding Committee lowmilksupply.org—Diana West and Lisa Marasco’s website normalfed.com—Diane Wiessinger’s website kellymom.com—Kelly Bonyata’s website
• But breastfed babies are still unusual in many communities, so people figure that any problems are probably related to it, even when the mother hasn’t really asked about feeding.
• partners have the key role of teaching the baby that love sometimes comes without food.
• Unmedicated babies who stay with their mothers tend to nurse more than the eight to twelve times a day you often hear about, interspersed with some serious napping. They’re putting in their order for abundant milk.
• Sucking on a pacifier releases CCK, too. A baby can fall asleep with a pacifier, thinking she’s been fed. But really she’s been fooled out of a meal, and your breasts have lost a feeding’s worth of milk removal. Result: slower weight gain and lower supply.