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Photograph by Michael Oliveri. Breastfeeding saves lives according to researchers. A study headed up by Drs. Melissa Bartick and Alison Stuebe published in Maternal and Child Nutrition looks at all the research to date and concludes that it saves mothers as well as...

We are a society obsessed with baby bumps. Archaeologists of the future will marvel at all the baby-related artifacts from fancy strollers to the ubiquitous pump-in-style breast pumps and conclude that, like Paleolithic Europeans with their Venus figurines, we...

Medical studies show breast is best when it comes to infant feeding. Or do they? Political scientist Courtney Jung says, “not so fast,” in her book Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big...