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Jane's Breastfeeding Resources is an information website dedicated to the promotion of breastfeeding. We believe mothers all over the world should have access to informed choices when it comes to feeding their children & to that end we continue to gather that information so our visitors can be best placed to make those choices. We have been running since 1996.
Hi!
Jane's Breastfeeding Resources is run by Jane, a mother of 3 breastfed children who is a Breastfeeding Supporter & Tutor with the Breastfeeding Network, a registered charity in the UK. She has been helping mothers to breastfeed for over 12 years.
Jane's husband, Garry, designed & runs the website.
Come & join us! We have a Breastfeeding Discussion Forum. If you wish to post or join in the discussions, you will need to register with the Forums separately. We are always looking for contributers to Jane's Breastfeeding Resources. We love to hear about your experiences of breastfeeding, if you'd like to share them with our visitors & can send us your thoughts, we'd love to hear from you....
Breastfeeding stimulates the release of the hormone oxytocin. This hormone stimulates uterine contractions & milk ejection and promotes the development of maternal behaviour & bonding between mother & baby.
Breastfeeding is free - in fact it saves you an estimated £450 across a year.
Breastfeeding is always available & instantly at the right temperature.
It's estimated that the NHS spends at least £35million per year treating gastro-enteritis in bottle-fed babies in England.
The World Health Organisation says:
"Breastfeeding is the best form of nutrition for infants. Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months (26 weeks) of an infant's life as it provides all the nutrients a baby needs".
UNICEF estimate that 1.5 million babies worldwide die each each year because they are not breastfeed.
ear, chest & urine infections
gastro-intestinal infections
childhood diabetes
eczema & asthma
obesity
and helps protect you against ovarian cancer and breast cancer.
Breastfeeding in the News
Sunday, 28 March 2010 15:20
Breastfeeding may help reduce relapse risk in women with multiple sclerosis, according to a new study.
The research team from Stanford University examined 32 pregnant women with MS and 29 pregnant women without MS during each trimester and up to a year after they gave birth.
Almost 52 percent of the women with MS did not breastfeed or began supplemental formula feedings within two months of giving birth.
Sunday, 28 March 2010 15:14
HB 1596 would protect "a woman's right to breastfeed in a place of public resort, accommodation, assemblage, or amusement." The sponsor, Rep. Tami Green (D-Lakewood), says infants should get the best food possible, and women should feel comfortable feeding their baby wherever needed. The Seattle Times has the story here.
Kerri Christie, a new mom from Poulsbo, testified most mothers don't feel at ease breast-feeding in public.
"Unfortunately the general public feels this is inappropriate," she said, "because there is nothing in our law that says it's appropriate to feed one's baby wherever you go."
Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:45
Mothers who breastfeed are less likely to neglect their children, according to a Baylor College of Medicine study reported in the journal Pediatrics that appears online today.
Senior author Lane Strathearn, assistant professor of pediatrics at BCM and Texas Children’s Hospital, studied 7,223 Australian women and their children over a 15-year period. The average mothers’ age was 25 years.
Of the mothers who participated, 40 percent breastfed for four months, 40 percent for less than four months, and 20 percent did not breastfeed.
Tuesday, 25 August 2009 23:21
The Growing Up In Scotland survey, commissioned by the Scottish Government in 2003 and updated this week, found a "significant" link between breastfeeding in infancy and a healthy body mass index (BMI) in later childhood.
More than one third (34%) of non-breastfed children suffered from a poor diet, according to the study, compared to just 16% of breastfed babies. Similarly, 17% of breastfed babies had a "good" diet while just 7% of non-breastfed ate well, the study showed.
Tuesday, 25 August 2009 23:16
Breast milk is better than formula food, even with toxins
Seven and a half months old Aashirya is healthy. She is less likely to fall sick or put on excessive weight as she grows up. This is because her parents are staunch believers of breastfeeding. Vineet Tyagi, her paediatrician father, and her mother, who is a dentist, decided to keep Aashirya on breast milk exclusively for the first six months. This, despite there being various studies on the presence of toxins in breast milk.
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Want to Help Us?
We're currently on the lookout for extra staff to help with our website.
If you are passionate about breastfeeding & would like to put something back into the online community, we'd love to hear from you.
We'd like some help with adding News Stories & Articles & keeping the site updated & fresh. Website experience would be an advantage but is not necessary as simple tuition is available.
If you're interested in helping us or would like further info, please get in touch via our Contact Page.
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