Books Are The Number One Gift For Women
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
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3y ago
Visit Praeclarus Press for a thoughtful and absorbing choice this season.   ..read more
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Another Five Myths About Breastfeeding
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
by Barbara
3y ago
In our culture, breastfeeding is no longer the usual way to feed a baby and this position helps many myths surrounding breastfeeding to persist. Here are another five of them. 1. It’s a myth that if a mother has an infection she must stop breastfeeding. If a breastfeeding mother has a head cold, the flu, or even pneumonia, it will not adversely affect her milk, nor will she transmit the illness to her baby by continuing to breastfeed. In fact, it is important she does continue to breastfeed because she will start to produce antibodies to the illness, which will quickly pass in her milk to her ..read more
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Stroke Risk Reduction In Breastfeeding Women
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by Barbara
3y ago
Breastfeeding may be a protective factor in stroke risk reduction in postmenopausal women. New research published yesterday in the Journal of the American Heart Association reports on an association and dose‐response relationship between breastfeeding and lower risk of stroke among postmenopausal women, after adjustment for multiple stroke risk factors and lifestyle variables. Stroke is the third leading cause of death among US Hispanic and non‐Hispanic black women aged 65 and older. Few studies have assessed the association between breastfeeding and stroke risk before and whether this associa ..read more
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Five Very Common Breastfeeding Myths
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
by Barbara
3y ago
Everyone now accepts that breastfeeding is how babies are meant to be nourished but many common myths about breastfeeding still persist. Here are just five of them. 1. It is a myth that you can somehow spoil a baby by picking it up too often. Christina Simantiri In a culture where artificial feeding has become the norm, many people misinterpret a baby’s desire to breastfeed more often than every couple of hours as a sign that a mother doesn’t have enough milk. Frequent nursing and cluster feeding are actually a common pattern for most young breastfed babies. Why is it so difficult to ..read more
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How to Fall In Love With Your Newborn Baby
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
by Barbara
3y ago
The beginning of life with your newborn baby and the start of your breastfeeding relationship might not be what you were hoping for during your pregnancy. How many women feel that a difficult birth spoils the joyful start they had imagined would mark their entrance to motherhood? If your body feels battered and sore and the side effects of intervention or medications make you feel swollen or drowsy, this may compound your sense of incompetence or inability to care for yourself, let alone your new baby. At a time when you need to enter your new role as 24/7 carer, you may feel shocked and exhau ..read more
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How the Quality of Attachment Affects Security in Relationships
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
by Barbara
3y ago
Kimberley D. Thompson, PhD looks at how the quality of attachment in parent-child relationships affects a child’s security into adulthood, in an excerpt adapted from  Perfect Mothers Get Depressed. The quality of parent-child attachment relationships impacts a child’s development and the influence can pass from generation to generation. The quality of attachment relationships is a primary component of family life and influences the other aspects of parenting. This exploration may help you understand how a parent’s inner experience is transferred and transformed in ..read more
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Books Are The Number One Gift For Women
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
by Barbara
3y ago
Visit Praeclarus Press for a thoughtful and absorbing choice this season.   ..read more
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Looking for Resources to Help Mothers Breastfeed?
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
by Barbara
3y ago
Are you looking for resources to help mothers breastfeed? Are you struggling to initiate breastfeeding yourself? Step-by-step visual instruction can be an especially effective tool, particularly where literacy and language are obstacles to learning. Regardless of barriers to understanding, video demonstration can convey important skills and the subtleties of how to do something that may possibly be lost in a written explanation. Seeing things done helps you remember how they are done. I have found the collection of instructional breastfeeding videos produced by Global Health Media an excellent ..read more
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Another Five Myths About Breastfeeding
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
by Barbara
3y ago
In our culture, breastfeeding is no longer the usual way to feed a baby and this position helps many myths surrounding breastfeeding to persist. Here are another five of them. 1. It’s a myth that if a mother has an infection she must stop breastfeeding. If a breastfeeding mother has a head cold, the flu, or even pneumonia, it will not adversely affect her milk, nor will she transmit the illness to her baby by continuing to breastfeed. In fact, it is important she does continue to breastfeed because she will start to produce antibodies to the illness, which will quickly pass in her milk to her ..read more
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Is City Living Affecting Mental Well-Being In Real Time?
Women’s Health Today – Praeclarus Press: Excellence in Women's Health
by Barbara
3y ago
Significant findings about how city living is affecting mental well-being in real time. It’s no secret that roaming outdoors in beautiful countryside lifts our spirits and the beneficial impact of nature on our mental health is supported by scientific literature, as well as by countless poetic and literary writings down the ages. However, mental illness is now one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. With its attendant problems of depression, anxiety and misuse of drugs making it a major contributor to the global burden of disease, a better understanding of how na ..read more
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