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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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Doulas are playing a role in C-section births

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“For decades, plenty of women hoping to have a natural birth have used doulas, but now women having C-sections have begun to use them, too. Like me, many giving birth by C-section hope that doulas will make the hospital experience less stressful and less medicalized, with the surgery interfering as little as possible with the process of bonding with and caring for their newborns.”
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