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Tips and advice for moms on breastfeeding, breast pumping, and parenting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New research from England indicates one in three nursing women feels embarrassed to breastfeed outside the home.
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