If a mother won’t breast-feed because of the benefits to their child (and studies show barely more than ten percent of American mothers do), maybe they’ll do it for themselves.

A study by the University of Pittsburgh found the longer mothers breast-fed, the lower their risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol by 10- to 23-percent.

Researchers say women had to breastfeed at least 6 months for the health benefits to be stastistically significant. (By then, the benefits to their baby have been quite significant, too.)

Breast-feeding a Boon to Mom’s Heart | healthfinder.gov

Worried about finding the time or the privacy? Lilsugar has seven tips for making it easier and more productive.

Pumping Tips | lilsugar - Baby, Toddlers, Kids & Parenting.

The Wise Parent Guide covers five feeding myths about infants, including the issues of soy milk, feeding and sleep, putting baby on cereal and solids, and trouble making poo.

Baby’s Feeding Myths | WParent.com

I remember those 2 A.M. feedings with ElmoGirl07. Beautiful Wife breast-fed, but I got to warm up a bottle at least once a night and have some bonding time with our newborn.

What I don’t remember is whether Beautiful Wife and I came by this solution naturally or if it was the result of something we read somewhere.

So read this Parent Hack and get some sleep by parenting together.

Stave off sleep deprivation by tag-teaming overnight feeding | Parent Hacks

We do some tag-team parenting in other respects, too, such as when I come home from work and Beautiful Wife is exhausted trying to keep up with ElmoGirl, I’ll help with feeding and get on the floor for play time.

already has a law protecting a woman’s right to breast-feed in public by shielding them from public indecency laws. Now a bill is being considered to go onestep further and make it illegal to harass a woman for breast-feeding, and fine an offender up to $200.

Kentucky’s Assembly takes it even more seriously, proposing a fine of $500 and up to $1,000 for subsequent violations — but it’ll require some ironing out with the Senate, which only wants $100 to $200.

In Washington, a bill was just introduced that defends a mother’s right to breastfeed in public, but I see no mention of penalties for harassing a mother for giving her infant the best food available.

The Badger Herald: State protects breast-feeding

The Courier-Journal: Pregnancy, breastfeeding bills take steps

The Seattle Times: Bill to breast-feed in public sponsored

I was dismayed in our childbirthing class when a previous graduate said she tried breastfeeding for one day and decided it wasn’t for her. Well, duh. It’s for the baby. I know people who spent more time personalizing their phone.

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