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A Visit to the Recovery Room: This Common Cultural Tradition Is NOT Mother-Friendly – Mothering

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“Most birthplaces are starting to acknowledge the importance of keeping mothers and babies together for the first “golden hour” (or two) after the birth. The benefits to both mom and baby are well documented.

“Both mother and baby are less stressed when they are skin-to-skin and babies cry less. The baby’s body temperature, blood sugar levels, and breathing stabilize. Oxytocin flows through both of them, which stimulates uterine contractions to encourage the smooth delivery of the placenta and decreases blood loss. Oxytocin also gets milk production going.”
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BuzzFeed IRL

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Some mid-week humor.

Everybody seems to have something to say when you’re pregnant…for better or worse… 😉

(Please excuse the PG language in the video.)
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The Benefits of Spicing Up a Breast-Feeding Mother’s Diet

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Eat up, Mommas!

“In the study, “Maternal Diet Alters the Sensory Qualities of Human Milk and the Nursling’s Behavior,” which ran in 1991 in the journal Pediatrics, nursing mothers who ate garlic produced breast milk with a stronger smell, as evaluated by researchers who didn’t know which sample was which. What was most interesting was how the milk tasted to the babies, those poetically named “nurslings.” When the garlic effect was there, the babies stayed longer on the breast, and nursed more vigorously.”

“Another study, published in 2001, showed that babies who had been exposed to a flavor in utero or while nursing were more likely to like that flavor when they were weaned.”
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