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Education

Complimentary access to articles in Breastfeeding Medicine

June 18, 2010

Heads up everyone! The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is providing complimentary access to the following articles for 2 weeks starting today. Incidence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Postpartum Breast Abscesses Authored By: P. Berens, L. Swaim, and B. Peterson Maternal Membranous Glomerulonephritis and Successful Exclusive Breastfeeding Authored By: K.A. Szucs, S.E. Axline, and M.B. Rosenman [...]

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WHO updates recommendations for breastfeeding with HIV

November 30, 2009

Reuters is reporting that the WHO recommendations for breastfeeding while HIV+ have changed and the changes seem to be fairly significant. (read full article) I have several friends living and working in areas where the HIV infection rates are staggering and so I wanted to point to this information as quickly as possible since I [...]

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Is breastfeeding advocacy anti-feminist? An essay by Katherine A. Dettwyler

September 22, 2009

My ultimate goal has always been that all women have access to the information and support they need to breastfeed for as long as they want, wherever they want, couched within an understanding of the evolutionary history of our species. Within the scholarly community, both in anthropology and in related disciplines, my work has been variously embraced, dismissed, misinterpreted, or attacked.

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