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Boston Children’s Hospital researchers found that 40 percent of children aged 8 to 24 months are not getting enough Vitamin D —but only 12 percent are actually Vitamin D deficient. Of the 380 infants and toddlers tested, those who were breastfed displayed lower levels of Vitamin D, reopening the discussion...

Little breastfeeding babies know a boob when they see one. They just can't always distinguish fake ones from real ones , as demonstrated by this image: Of course, no one photographed what happened afterwards. The baby started to cry because he wasn't getting the milk he wanted. Then the statue...

Half my kids were born wth a short frenulum. That's the stretchy bit of flesh that connects the tongue to the bottom of the mouth. Born with a short one and you're known as "tongue-tied." "Cut it," advised the nurse. "She won't be able to talk." "Leave it...

When my older daughter was younger, I depended on daycare to care for her while I worked. Being a single mom, I had no other options until she was old enough to become a "latchkey child", in itself not a desireable option either, but she had outgrown the program and was mature and responsible and we...

Yeah, I'm one of those semi-militant breastfeeding moms who nursed her toddlers and nursed in public and in every imaginable situation (how about while touring a cave in Ireland?), but it wasn't always that way. I remember struggling to get through the first six weeks because some stupid book said that...