Tips and advice for moms on breastfeeding, breast pumping, and parenting.
For many years, I’ve lived away from my family and for holidays and special occasions I made a four-hour road trip to my parents’ house quite often and I never thought twice about it. I packed up my car with all my stuff, gassed up at the station and made my way up North to see my family for the holidays.
...We mothers know that our bodies are forever changed as soon as we become a mom, but research shared this year from Arizona State University is showing that a child’s cells cross the placenta and enter the mother’s body and then become part of her tissues and remain a part of her body long after she has given birth.
...The Affordable Care Act (often called Obamacare) was implemented by most insurers on or after August 1 2012. The ACA made free breast pumps available to new moms through their health insurance, a plan intended to take away one of the biggest hurdles for a new mom. For the most part, moms who've taken advantage of this new baby bonus are satisfied.
...Traveling moms don’t have it easy. There’s a lot of coordination that goes into plane traveling with young children or a newborn. You have to think about how you’re going to maneuver the airports (listed in our airport nursing rooms locator) and get your children from point A to point B seamlessly. In a perfect world it would be seamless but moms often have to deal with luggage, strollers, car seats for the plane, entertaining children or keeping a newborn calm during a flight, stares and comments from less than understanding passengers and then the whole fiasco de-boarding. But what if you are a nursing mom? Traveling with kids or not if a mom is nursing she will also need to coordinate time to breastfeed or breast pump.
...New research from England indicates one in three nursing women feels embarrassed to breastfeed outside the home.
...Great news, Moms! Century 21 department stores in New York have changed their policy for breastfeeding. Employees at six of the company’s New York locations have been educated and will now instruct nursing mothers that they may breastfeed anywhere in the stores.
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