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A new study suggests the treatment pregnant women receive for epilepsy does not adversely affect their offspring. The study…
Women who keep taking their antidepressants while breastfeeding are more likely to breastfeed for the recommended six months…
Breastfed babies are more intelligent but not because of breastfeeding alone but because of additional parenting skills…
Breastfeeding has again been frothing up debate after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) introduced a clause to its Child Rights law that makes it mandatory to breastfeed children for the first two years of…
Babies who are breastfed show signs of early development in areas of the brain associated with language, emotion and cognition…
It’s rare for a significant period of time to pass before another debate about breastfeeding takes place in the media. The latest? Some of the highest authorities have said breastfeeding is okay, even…
Days after Pope Francis told mothers to “not think twice” about breastfeeding at church and in public, Sally Davies, the UK’s chief medical officer, called for women to be allowed to breastfeed at work…
The death of an infant is terrible for both parents, but for many mothers, physical reminders such as lactation, can seem incongruent when motherhood has been cut short. These women can find solace in…
The current 18-week paid parental leave (PPL) scheme is ill-suited to mothers who choose to exclusively breastfeed their…
Intrigued by recent research that shows longer-term breastfeeding may be linked to higher IQs, I shared an article about it on my Facebook page. I was promptly accused of “breast-is-best” fascism. It appears…
A new study suggests that mothers who breastfeed run a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s, with longer periods of breastfeeding…
Research published in JAMA Pediatrics this week shows a causal relationship between breastfeeding and higher IQ by the time a child is seven years old. Put simply, longer breastfeeding appears to make…
Breastfeeding may be an ancient practice but we are learning new things about it all the time. My colleagues and I, for instance, have recently found that the lactating breast has the amazing ability to…
We know at least six months of exclusive breastfeeding is the best start to a baby’s life. What’s amazing is it seems ancient hominids knew that too. In a paper published today in Nature, we analysed the…
With so much contradictory information about whether it’s safe for mothers to share a bed with their baby, it’s easy to see why parents are confused. The release yesterday of a paper in BMJ Open added…
Infants should be exclusively breastfed until six months of age and solids should be introduced at “around six months”, according to official new infant feeding guidelines released today. The guidelines…
Wet nursing, where a woman other than the mother breastfeeds a baby, is a practice as old as history itself. In modern times, the availability of refrigeration and breast pumps has enabled women to also…
Women who breastfeed their babies have significantly reduced rates of ovarian cancer, according to a new study. The study…
The host of Sunrise breakfast television show, David Koch, aka Kochie, has stirred controversy by saying mothers should breastfeed “discreetly” and that while he agreed that breastfeeding should be done…
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Professor in Breastfeeding Research, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
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Lecturer, University of the Free State
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Applied Epidemiology, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
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Caroline Homer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Director (Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion), Burnet Institute
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Senior Lecturer/Course Convenor in Nutrition and Dietetics, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer at York Business School, York St John University
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Newborn Medicine, The University of Western Australia