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Letter to Doctors and Parents About the Dangers of Insufficient Exclusive...
(En español) Dear Colleague and Parent: My name is Christie del Castillo-Hegyi and I am an emergency physician, former NIH scientist, with a background in newborn brain injury research at Brown...
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Feed Your Baby—When Supplementing Saves Breastfeeding and Lives
Jody Segrave-Daly, RN, MS, IBCLC Mothers are taught that it’s rare not to produce enough milk to exclusively breastfeed in nearly every breastfeeding book, mommy group, and hospital breastfeeding...
View ArticleDr. Beth Elston, Pediatrician, Shares Her Fed is Best Story and How She...
Dr. Beth Elston is a mother and a general pediatrician. She talks about her experience as a breastfeeding mother. She talks about how breastfeeding education taught to moms and health professionals...
View ArticleTwo Physicians Describe How Their Baby-Friendly Hospital Put Their Newborn in...
John and Kristen are both surgical residents who recently had their first child. This is their story. By John and Kristen Waters Let me start by saying we are one of the lucky ones. Our first-born was...
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Italian Doctor Talks About Her Daughter Starving In A Baby-Friendly Hospital...
I gave birth to my daughter three months ago (vaginal delivery) after prolonged labour. I had been ill the week before, unable to walk, stand, or sleep (I had been to the emergency room several times...
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Nurses Quit Because Of Horrific Experiences Working In Baby-Friendly Hospitals
Photo Credit: Victorian Agency for Health Information We regularly receive messages from nurses, physicians, LCs, and other health professionals. They express their concerns while asking for help and...
View ArticleListen to Fed is Best Co-Founder Talk About Her Son’s Breastfeeding...
Come tune in and listen to a podcast where Fed is Best Co-Founder, Christie del Castillo-Hegyi talks with Hayley Zimak of “Growing Up: Baby” about her breastfeeding story, the birth of the #FedisBest...
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A Nurse Speaks Out About The Emotional Distress Parents Endure From Mandated...
“The sight and sound of babies crying out for food and fluids are why I decided to speak out. Babies are denied food and fluids to promote exclusive breastfeeding.” As a mother-baby nurse, I’ve seen...
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Gender Equity, Co-Parenting and Infant Feeding Choices
Jessica Pratezina, MA, is a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Studies (Child and Youth Care; Sociology) at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her doctoral research studies gender...
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My Baby Scream-Cried The Entire Second Night In The Hospital
My name is Amber, and I am the mother of a charming, beautiful, and vivacious baby boy. I want to share with you a story: the story of my son’s birth and his first few months earthside. It is a...
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