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Were you breastfed as a baby and if so, do love or hate your mother? Do you have children of your own and if so, do you or did you breastfeed them? And for how long? And if it was a long time ago, do they still speak to you? And did you ever do [...]

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Jamie Lynne Grumet has appeared on the cover of Time magazine, looking fetching in a vest and skinnies, and staring into the camera as her three-year-old child sucks at her breast. She aims to publicise “attachment parenting”, although she also says: “There seems to be a war going on between conventional parenting and attachment parenting. That’s what [...]

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The latest cover of Time magazine has caused outrage. Under the headline “Are you mom enough?”, a young woman is pictured having her left breast suckled by a boy who appears way beyond usual breastfeeding age. The woman, it turns out, is Jamie Lynne Grumet, a 26-year old mother from Los Angeles, and the boy [...]

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A mother of two has told of how she breastfeeds her two sons who are aged three and five. Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, has appeared on the cover of Time magazine breastfeeding her three-year-old Aram as he stands on a small seat to reach her. The Los Angeles mother has spoken about how she applies [...]

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Here’s a question you don’t hear in the breastfeeding debate: why doesn’t milk turn breasts to bone? Charles Darwin suggested that lactation evolved through natural selection, starting when the ancestors of mammals gained a nutritional advantage from lapping up sweat-like secretions from glands under their mothers’ skin. This idea had some grounding. Darwin would have [...]

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A transgender man breastfeeds his one-year-old son by using a supplemental nursing system. Trevor MacDonald, an openly gay father from Winnipeg, Canada, has been breastfeeding his son since the day he gave birth to him. The father looked to the SNS instrument, which is a tool that helps to induce lactation, after struggling to naturally [...]

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The pressure of the French presidential election has put Carla Bruni under so much stress she has stopped breast-feeding her baby daughter, it was claimed today. The angst-ridden First Lady, 44, is suffering from a ‘real psychological shock’ at the brutality of the insults levelled at her husband during his campaign, France’s Closer magazine reported. [...]

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Oreo has claimed its controversial breastfeeding baby advert was ‘never meant to go public’. Kraft Foods, the firm’s parent company, said the provocative picture of a child clenching a chocolate cookie while suckling on a woman’s breast was only supposed to be used once. The nipple-exposing promo was made by its Cheil Worldwide agency, it [...]

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At-risk premature babies would benefit from being given milk feeds earlier, a study has suggested. The University of Oxford study found babies were not at a higher risk of severe bowel problems if moved off IV-feeds early, as was feared. Four hundred babies, born at least five weeks early and small for their age, were [...]

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An apparently intoxicated woman broke into a stranger’s home in eastern South Dakota and tried to breast feed a two-month-old child. The baby’s shocked mother was awoken by dogs and called 911 at around 5am on Sunday. She told officers that a woman she didn’t know had entered her Brookings home and attempted to feed [...]

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TV sports presenter Amanda Davies had enjoyed an uncomplicated pregnancy – but it became a slowly unfolding nightmare when, alarmingly, two months before her due date her waters broke while she was live on air. ‘It was the BBC World sports shift, which is notoriously quiet,’ says the daughter of former Football Association chief executive [...]

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Babies fed on demand do better at school… but it’s not so good for exhausted and grumpy mothers Study suggests eight-year-olds who were demand-fed had IQs four or five points higher By EMILY ALLEN PUBLISHED: 12:32, 18 March 2012 | UPDATED: 12:15, 19 March 2012 Comments (73) Share Babies who are fed on demand are [...]

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Breastfeeding campaign groups are demanding that hospitals stop giving away free infant formula to new mothers. Dozens of consumer and health organizations sent letters to more than 2,600 hospitals across America yesterday, asking facilities to immediately stop distributing the free samples of formula. Giving formula to new parents discourages some new mothers from breastfeeding, the [...]

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TV sports presenter Amanda Davies had enjoyed an uncomplicated pregnancy – but it became a slowly unfolding nightmare when, alarmingly, two months before her due date her waters broke while she was live on air. ‘It was the BBC World sports shift, which is notoriously quiet,’ says the daughter of former Football Association chief executive [...]

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Mayim Bialik rose to fame through her television portrayal of a free-spirited teenager named Blossom and it seems her character’s personality traits are now mirrored in her own life. The actress, who played the lead role in the Eighties American sitcom Blossom, has written a parenting book titled Beyond The Sling: A Real-Life Guide To [...]

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Women carrying faulty genes have an almost three in four chance of developing breast cancer and feeding their babies naturally is one of the few ways they can reduce that risk, researchers have found. A study has found that women carrying the BRCA1 gene were 32 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer if [...]

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Women carrying faulty genes have an almost three in four chance of developing breast cancer and feeding their babies naturally is one of the few ways they can reduce that risk, researchers have found. A study has found that women carrying the BRCA1 gene were 32 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer if [...]

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Mothers told to breast feed for the first six months are being given unhelpful and unrealistic advice, a new report claim. According to medical experts, breastfeeding for six months has considerable health benefits for both mothers and babies – with many governments around the world supporting the decision. However, researchers have found many women think [...]

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The World Health Organisation guidance says that women should breastfeed exclusively for the first six months and then continue for two years or more with the introduction of solid foods. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen conducted a series of interviews with mothers and their partners which found that the guidance could damage the confidence [...]

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Beyoncé has breastfed her baby in public… and the world is still turning. Do you, like us, find the ongoing “debate” about the rights and wrongs of mothers nursing their children in restaurants/on buses/anywhere that isn’t at home, alone, with the curtains drawn, unfathomable? via Motherhood: I don’t think you’re ready for this dummy – [...]

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Along with all the photos of special events, weddings, birthdays, balls, sports triumphs and prizegivings, mums and dads are putting photos of their babies on Facebook. Sometimes their baby is eating when photographed and sometimes they are taking a feeding break and looking at the camera. Lovely – except Facebook thinks if that baby happens [...]

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They’re not known for their reservedness, but Chantelle Houghton and Alex Reid may have taken things a bit too far in their latest interview. The cagefighter has revealed that he wants to drink his pregnant fiancée’s breast milk when she gives birth to their daughter in June. The couple reportedly could not keep their hands [...]

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A new mother was left breast-feeding someone else’s baby after blundering hospital staff gave her the wrong child, a hearing was told yesterday. Two newborns had been taken away to be cared for just hours after being born, while their mothers rested, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. But ward staff later returned the wrong [...]

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On Wednesday we published a comment piece about Facebook’s recently leaked documents, which appear to reveal Facebook’s image and post-approval system. As the writer Rowan Davies points out, sandwiched between “depiction of sexual assault or rape” and “bestiality, necrophilia and pedophilia” is “breastfeeding photos showing other nudity, or nipple clearly exposed”. In other words – [...]

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Mothers who are struggling to get their babies to sleep should consider how much caffeine they are consuming, according to a breast feeding expert. Drinking coffee, tea and soft drinks and even eating chocolate increases the level of the stimulant in the blood. Babies can become restless, awake and irritable, when it is passed on [...]

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It’s not easy being a colossally successful social network. This might sound like sarcasm, but it’s not; it’s hard to formulate rules that allow 845 million users to express themselves without offering grievous offence, while taking account of laws in scores of jurisdictions. Unsurprisingly, then, recently leaked documents that appear to reveal Facebook’s “image and [...]

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Rules that govern what Facebook’s 845 million users can post have been leaked, leaving the social networking website red-faced. The edicts that dictate what content is deleted by staff after being “flagged” by Facebook users had been a strictly guarded secret. A disgruntled Moroccan employee leaked the Abuse Standards Violations (ASV), revealing a relaxed attitude [...]

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TV presenter Amanda Davies today called on mothers to donate breast milk. The BBC sports broadcaster, 31, revealed how her daughter Molly was helped by donor milk when she was born nine weeks early. Davies, daughter of former FA chief David, said her waters broke live on air and she spent 24 hours in intensive [...]

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Breastfed babies are less likely to become angry and irritable adults, say scientists. A long-term study found children who were fed milk directly from their mothers in the first six months of life displayed lower levels of hostility aged 24 compared to their peers who were bottle fed. Researchers now believe the feeding method, even [...]

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Oh dear. Facebook has boobed again. You can take your company public, Mark Zuckerberg, just don’t try to stop mothers putting up breastfeeding pictures in a public place. For the past few years, as regularly as a baby wakes in the night, Facebook has fallen out with those who post photographs of themselves feeding their [...]

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A leading childbirth charity will stop telling mothers to breastfeed over fears its image is ‘too posh’. The National Childbirth Trust will no longer promote the practice to all women in its ante-natal classes. Instead it will encourage those who have already decided to take it up to do it properly. The change follows concerns [...]

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A leading childbirth charity will stop telling mothers to breastfeed over fears its image is ‘too posh’. The National Childbirth Trust will no longer promote the practice to all women in its ante-natal classes. Instead it will encourage those who have already decided to take it up to do it properly. The change follows concerns [...]

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It is the champion of breastfeeding and home births, and its antenatal classes are popular among professional parents-to-be. But now the National Childbirth Trust is setting out to transform its image out of concern that it is too white and too middle-class. As a first step it is to drop its “evangelical” position on breast [...]

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Motorbike couriers, bottles of expressed breast milk pumped in the office and stored in cool bags slung over their shoulders, battle their way through Jakarta’s choked streets with their precious cargo. Grandmothers waiting at home caring for the infants can then feed the babies with the freshest mother’s milk, rather than resort to powdered milk [...]

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Breastfed babies cry more, laugh less, and generally have “more challenging temperaments” than formula-fed infants, a study has found. But such behaviour is normal, and mothers should learn to cope with it rather than reach for the bottle, according to researchers. Infant irritability was said to be a natural part of the “dynamic communication” between [...]

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New mums should be advised that it is normal for their baby to cry more if they are breastfed, say experts. The Medical Research Council team says this irritability is natural, and although formula-fed babies may appear more content and be easier to pacify, breast is still best. If parents have more realistic expectations more [...]

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I see the breastfeeding mothers watching me as I rummage in my changing bag for the ready-made carton of formula. Those looks speak a thousand words, most of which boil down to, “How could you? We’re doing the best for our baby, why aren’t you?” I feel as if they’re judging me, looking at me [...]

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Breastfeeding rates in Britain remain depressingly low: despite initiative after initiative, only one in five babies is still being exclusively breastfed at six weeks. So thank goodness we start 2012 with one of the finest posters ever produced for the pro-breastfeeding movement – a reproduction of the Madonna Litta, which art lovers are currently queuing up to [...]

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Mothers who exclusively breastfeed for at least six months lower the risk of developing high blood pressure in later life, a study has suggested.

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Leonardo da Vinci’s painting is a Christmas image of hope, implying that each time a child is born, there is the possibility of a new beginning.

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Breastfed children follow a different growth pattern than non-breastfed children
This is likely to have health benefits many years later

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One uses her nanny as a wet-nurse. Another took drugs to fool her body into producing milk. How the ‘breast is best’ mantra can become an obsession

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A hardy group of mothers staged a breastfeeding flashmob demonstration in a city centre to declare their right to feed their babies in public.

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After being harassed for feeding my daughter in public in Brighton, I have decided it is time to make a stand

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This week, Amy Fleming asks a new mother to test out recommended tops for breastfeeding. Here’s what she thought

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It may look like bad PR, but a restaurant in Croydon could find itself inundated with bookings from those who like to eat without being surrounded by kids, after a story in last night’s Evening Standard. According to the piece, Cosmo restaurant has been asking parents with young babies to fork out £3 to take [...]

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When Natasha Young took her newborn son into Britain’s biggest restaurant she knew that his meal, at least, would be free because she breastfeeds him. Soon after she arrived, however, staff told her she would have to pay £3 for the space that baby Kaedon’s pushchair took up. ‘I was really upset and angry – [...]

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Embryonic stem cells could revolutionise treatment of cancer, blindness, diabetes, Parkinson’s and paralysis

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A Mexican girl has become a mother at the age of just 10, according to reports.

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