What is the Breast Crawl? 

The phrase “breast crawl” refers to what a baby does instinctively after birth. Put on their mother’s lower abdomen the baby initiates a natural crawl process where – with time – the baby moves their body up toward mom’s breasts. Given skin-to-skin contact with their mothers almost all babies can get up to the breasts …

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Breastfeeding and Your Telomeres: Helping You and Your Baby to Live Longer

Do you want to increase the chances of you and your baby living longer?  Here is another wonderful benefit of breastfeeding and it has a lot to do with your Telomeres (tee-lo-meres)?  Telomeres are located on the tips of our chromosomes and correlate significantly with health and longevity.  In fact, they may be considered the …

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Covid-19 and Childbirth

The Corona Virus pandemic is a new disease causing massive confusion, uncertainty, suffering, and death. We all have questions, many of which cannot be answered at this early stage of the pandemic. We do know that the virus is spread mostly through respiratory droplets produced when someone who is infected coughs or sneezes. We do know that the …

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