breastfeeding older children

hello is the booba delicious? yeah?you like the milk? yummy?ok thats greatare you my little goat? my little goatyare you my little baby? yeah?are you jonathan? oh, that's very good!

breastfeeding is hard

i feel like, the firstsix weeks were so hard. i, i didn't know how hard they'dbe, and so it kind of scared me and made me think, "am i alwaysgonna be so overwhelmed, "am i never gonna sleep,and is breastfeeding always gonna be this challenging?" and... no. it's not. i mean, i got the hang of it anddenver and i got into a routine. and we began to justwork well together.

now, nursing is, i mean,it's wonderful. those few times a day wherei nurse him, it's like, that's mommy and denver time. and we get to kind of snuggletogether and quiet down together and i love it. it's just, it's cool to knowthat we can have that kind of relationship, that i can sodirectly impact his health and his growth,so early in life.

breastfeeding inverted nipples

my nipples are leaking fluid, should i beworried? this is an important subject. let me share some information with you about this. one of the very common complaints that i dealwith as a breast surgeon is the issue of fluid coming out of the nipple when you are notpregnant and you are not obviously breastfeeding and the kind of fluid that can come out ofthe nipple include things like blood, includes sort of a watery greenish fluid. it can bea rust color fluid. it can actually be milk and yet you are not pregnant and have notbeen recently breastfeeding. it can be almost toothpaste like sticky material that can comeout of the nipple and the people are constantly concern do i have breast cancers, is thisfinding for breast cancer and the answer is

that the typical or usual breast cancer isnot, i repeat not associated with the nipple discharge. this is particularly true for abloody nipple discharge. in fact, the vast-vast majority of bloody nipple discharges are froma benign disorder called an intra meaning inside, ductal inside the duct papilloma fancyword for overgrowth of the tissue that lines the ducts and they get rough you well andthey can discharge blood. now because cancers can in fact do this, we always work thesepatients up completely and the workup would include mammograms, would include an ultrasoundexamination and sometimes, but not very common at all would include a breast mri exam. familyhistory is important that we take that in when we talk about women with nipple dischargesas well. the vast majority of nipple discharges

that i have seen throughout my career areactually women in their 40s and it's associated with fibrocystic changes of the breast, cystsform in the breast, ducts dilate up, there is an entity called ductal ectasia big fancyword for an unknown reason that ducts can dilate up, it can be associated with a nippledischarge. the sticky discharge that i was talking about a minute ago can often comefrom this unusual entity called duct ectasia, so if you do have a nipple discharge, youdo need to be evaluated. you need to see your physician, at a minimum you need an ultrasoundexamination, but it frankly should be coupled with a mammogram particularly if you haven'thad one. now, if we see an abnormality in the ductal system then what is typically doneis what's called the ductogram, a very-very

fine catheter is threaded down inside theduct that we see having the fluid come out of it, we then gently inject a contrast materialso that we can see what's going on inside the duct and often that scheduled on the sameday that surgery is scheduled, so if we see something, we can go immediately to the operatingroom and take it out. once again, vast majority of nipple discharges are not breast cancer.however, they do need to be evaluated, make sure that you see competent, educated physicians,and people dealing with breast disease to have such an evaluation.

breastfeeding in the workplace

promoting health and "infant friendly" work places la leche league international member says that this week is important across the country to bring to light the discussion of breastfeeding in public. a

discussion that was brought up just a few weeks ago after one mom was told to cover-up while breast feeding at the romkey park pool in moorhead. "i hope that people everywhere can see just what a normal, natural, positive thing

breastfeeding is for babies, for mothers, and for families, and for communities. i think when we have healthy children, and healthy happy mothers and families, we just build stronger, better communities

and it's such a positive thing." seven north dakota businesses have been recognized as "infant- friendly" in the past year. la lay-chay is hosting a picnic this thursday at lindenwood park in support of breast feeding week

breastfeeding in spanish

i thought it was ok. i could understand the reasons. they said there might be a man or a nervous child seeing this small piece of flesh that they weren't quite expecting. so i whispered and tiptoed with nervous discretion but after six months of her life sat sitting on lids, sipping on milk, nostrils sniffing on piss-- trying not to bang her head on toilet dispensers. i wonder whether these public loo feeds offend her.

cos i'm getting tired of discretion and being polite. as my baby's first sips are drown-drenched in shite. i spent the first feeding months of her beautiful life feeling nervous and awkward and wanting everything right. surrounded by family till i stepped out the house it took me eight weeks to get the confidence to go into town, now the comments around me cut like a knife, as i rush into toilet cubicles feeling nothing like nice. because i'm giving her milk that's not in a bottle

wishing the cocaine generation of white powder would topple us see, pyramid sales pitches across our green globe and female breasts banned. unless they're out just for show. and the more i go out the more i can't stand it. i walk into town, feel i'm surrounded by bandits cos in this country of billboards covered in tits and family newsagents full of it w h smith top shelves out for men, why don't you complain about them then?

in this country of billboards covered in tits and family newsagents magazines full of it. w h smiths top shelves out for men i'm getting embarrassed incase a small flash of flesh might offend. and i am not trying to parade this. i don't want to make a show. but when i'm told i'd be better just staying at home and when another friend i know is thrown off a bus and another mother told to get out of a pub even my grandma said maybe i was "sexing it up".

and i'm sure the milk-makers love all this fuss. all the cussing and worry and look disgust as another mother turns from nipples to powder. ashamed, or embarrassed about comments around her, and as i hold her head up and pull my cardi across and she sips on that liqueur made by everyone's god, i think for god's sake jesus drank it so did siddhartha, mohammed, and moses and both of their fathers

ganesh and shiva and brigid and buddha and i'm sure they weren't doing it sniffing on shit as their mothers sat embarrassed on cold toilet lids in a country of billboards covered in tits. in a country of low-cut tops, cleavage and skin and in a country of cloth bags and recycling bins. and as i desperately try to take all of this in i hold her head up, i can't get my head round the anger towards us and not to the sounds of lorries offloading formula milk

into countries where water runs dripping in filth, in towns where breasts are oasis' of life now dried up in two for one offers, enticed by labels logos and gold standard rights claiming breast milk is healthier powdered and white. packaged and branded and sold at a price so that nothing is free and this money-fueled life, which is fine if you need it or prefer to use bottles where water is clean and bacteria boiled but in towns where they drown in pollution and sewage bottled kids die and they knew that they'd do it.

in towns where pennies are savoured like sweets, we end up paying for one thing that has always been free. in towns empty of hospital beds babies die, diarrhea, fueled that breast milk would end so no more will i sit on these cold toilet lids no matter how embarrassed i feel as she sips. cos' in this country of billboards covered in tits i think i should try to get used to this.

breastfeeding in public

hey guys! welcome back to another episodeof nguyen's world. every mom has a different comfort level when it comes to breastfeeding in public. for me, i was extremely nervous, and it took me sometime to build my confidence and get used to my new routine. if you're a breastfeedingmom, you know that breastfeeding in public is sometimes unavoidable. so today i'm goingto share with you my 5 tips to help you feel more confident about breastfeeding in public. tip #1 nurse right before your activities.(or as my husband likes to call it, pre-gaming) by doing this, you can maximize the amountof time you have while you're out and about, before your baby's next feeding. i usually nurse in the car when we get to our destination.

tip #2: feed your baby before she cries. payattention to your baby's feeding cues and anticipate when you think she'll be hungry.then offer your breast to her and see if she'll feed. you want to do this early enough toavoid waiting until your baby is screaming and crying, which will draw even attentionto you. a crying baby is more impatient and may result in a poor latch or fussiness whenfeeding. tip #3: find a spot where you and your babywill feel comfortable and relaxed. if you're in a restaurant, try sitting in a booth orsit at table that's facing away from people. if you're out shopping, you can nurse inthe fitting room. if you're at the park, you can breastfeed sitting on a bench. youwant to find a place where you can sit comfortably

with support for your back and that has lesstraffic, to avoid bringing attention to yourself. which brings me to my next tip, wear clothesthat you can easily nurse in. you don't even have to buy expensive nursing tops. youcan basically just wear anything that opens up in the front, like a button-down blouse or a top with a stretchy neck.my favorite is wearing a loose fitting t-shirt that you can just lift up.i usually wear a tank top underneath that just to cover my belly. and i saved the best for last. practice nursing in a baby carrier. once you have mastered this, you will findbreastfeeding in public much easier. we have the ergo baby carrier and after i learnedhow to breastfeed in it, i just felt so relieved

to know that i could breastfeed her anytimeshe needed to and i didn't have to worry about scooting off to some dark corner tofeed her. natalie loves being in the baby carrier and if she wants to breastfeed, ijust make a few adjustments and cover her head and people just think she's asleep.and i still have my hands free to do whatever i need to do and walk around at the same time!this tip has absolutely become a lifesaver for us. so i hope you found this video helpful. pleasegive this video a thumbs up if you did and don't forget to subscribe by clicking thelink right here. and let me know in the comments below if you have any tips for breastfeedingin public. thank you so much for watching

and i'll see you in the next video. bye!

breastfeeding in public uk

magazine i decided to do a cover storyon something known as attachment parenting now the reason why this ismaking headlines is because time magazine publish the article with the prettyquestionable cover uh... people are a little uncomfortable withit i myself a little uncomfortable with itso i wanted to see my disappeared court on this affair i wanna get uh... youknow your thoughts on it i want to see whether or not uh... we find timemagazine guilty for publishing an inappropriate cover

part so far as let's look at the cover alright excel not believe that this actually happenedlike they actually printed this and this is the cover of time magazine cell at as you guys can read it has todo with attachment parity and uncomfortable with the cover and what it says underneath that aboutattachment parenting because it basically insinuates that

attachment parenting it makes women goinsane and these women are you know i don't know that in may it please sendin a very negative picture and i don't like that because i think that there'ssome valuable components of attachment parenting effort for those of you don'tknow what it is it's basically this idea that you shouldkeep your child as close to you as possible at all times while you know the child is goingthrough infancy and grows into a toddler uh... and the whole point is to teachthat child uh... a motion in and physical attachment and

it sounds like a really interesting idearight and i don't know if it's necessarily theparenting strategy that i would take on i'm not a parent i'm not an expert atthis time i made the comment on that right but i feel like without coverthey've already made their decision for the reader that attachment parenting isridiculous and aunty mother who considers it is in that job but apparently the woman on the cover doesn't think so publication without i'mthat's a very first thing i thought when i went to the specialist who is that andwhy was she willing to do this is a

twenty six-year-old mother uh... and theboys three years or so they pair idon't know i'd actually a automatically assumethat she was like some model and evenphotoshopped the child cycling at her teacher don't but no pected it turns out that she'sreally monitor real kick the avenue in engine market is in high school and his friends do you got this magazine

frolicking missing is that well i hope they have to go to schoolwith mitterrand that bad now ok so i've find a time magazinebuilt it because i feel like they've made thedecision for the reader already when it comes to attach the guardian we're gonna keep it real that that covermakes me uncomfortable and totally in favor of allowing women to breastfeed inpublic uh... but that's infants not reallythink that night so and that's that's my

take on a carolinian dot i have to sayadded i'm right now with some a little on thefence because working in journalism you know that sometimes do you do thingswith headlines seem to get people to read the article and i haven't read the article i have toadmit so i'm really just basing my decision upon this com person i can onon the uh... the sub head next year uh... but just if i'm gonna houston truthinesshere and speak with my gut instead of my

brain grunts you had field plexus makes you uncomfortableagain seems a bit old to be happy things like on a step ladder you can almostreach it here alright that none of the guys i wannaget a male perspective on this you purchase of its awesome is great it's as good as it has been a situationthat does he do read article which is the whole point that

and who cares i mean we talked beforeabout what we saw from the post war in theresources modest because her soul for individuals and have been exposed as anipple displaced you know disadvantaged fiberglass dependable doesn't make meuncomfortable i seen it was all day long phai i tend to have been but but whatmakes me on not just like the fact is the three year old boy a like ait it'sjust it's just a neared visual tumi i don't know our biggest problem for mehonestly we've discovered the has less to do with in a different attachmentstyles different parenting styles what the article actually says or even theshock value

of the using this cover to get people toread the article i think that that's you know it's smart it's good marketing realissue is that will end up putting her three-year-old side on this do something about that it makes mewonder later when you see in the dark and in the air travelers into the air atthe moment is a correspondent and why are they ok come a little boy it's gonnaget believe sono

breastfeeding in public laws

- being a mom is really uncomfortable, and you don't have todo all the other stuff that i have to do, so it's like if you're uncomfortable,you can turn your head. breastfeeding in public, i try to do it. it makes me a little nervous, but i try to be brave about it because i think while she doesn't understand it, this is my daughter's firstexposure to body shaming.

her mom getting all tense and anxious and shameful because her breast is out. - i was definitely nervous about it because i just did not know what to expect in terms of people and staring. but over time i got over that. syndey is hungry, so now i feed her whenever i need to feed her. - it was really stressfulto even just breastfeed,

even when you're just at home. you're out in public andyour child is screaming, and you're trying to maneuverthem underneath a blanket. it can be really horrifying. - i've never had anyone sayanything to me directly, but i have gotten a coupledisapproving glances. - i actually was asked one time to move when i was breastfeeding at a mall. and the security guard asked

if i would go to the family restroom. - i'm feeding my kid,and i just can't imagine if i pulled out a sippy cup,no-one would say anything. if i pulled out cheerios,no-one would say anything. - i have friends whoapplaud me for doing it. i have friends who stillthink it's a little bit too intrusive, and i just remind them that well when we wear ourbikinis, our breasts are out. other peoples' breasts are out.

- so a mall securityguard asked me to move to the family restroom, and i looked him deadin the eyes and i said "do you take a shit where you eat?" - intellectually, i knowthat there should be nothing i should be ashamed of, but somehow it's been baked into me just from society. so as much as i want to ignore it... - that's like my biggestthing about breastfeeding

was about my fear ofinadequacy as a mother. and being able to breastfeedin public, for me, it fuels, like, i get to kindof wear this badge of honor. like, look at me go. - breastfeeding without fear for me means that i'm a confident mom. - breastfeeding without fear to me means having a regular opportunityto do best by my kid. - it's the natural thing to do,

it's what our bodies were meant to do. so we shouldn't be ashamed of it. - mothers have way too muchon their plate already. you need to provide for your child, and feed your child ina relaxed environment. - breatfeeding without fear to me means freedom to leave thehouse and live my life, because it's a beautiful, constant important part of mothering.

and it, we shouldn't have to hide.

breastfeeding in public india

so say that you're a new mother and that you'rein the car. this is another great way to breastfeed discreetly and try to keep your child happy,because no one is happy when a child is screaming bloody murder. so this is how you do it -- if you sit next to 'em. this only works if the child is under a year of age, and thecar seat is still facing backwards. what you can do is do is if you're wearing the doubletop method again which is why i said that it's my favorite. you can lean in forwardthis way, again you pull it from this side. you pull up to, again, cover the top of yourbreasts and then you can pull down to expose just a little bit of your nipple. now, whendoing this, you can get it already ready to go, then you you hug and lean forward...wellyou're still strapped and so is the baby,

and you can lean the baby up, like so. nowyou can also lay although a cashmere..i have one handy or a blanket over the top. and youcan cover it up completely like so. now one thing that i really want to stress and makesure that everyone understands is that safety always comes before anything else. if youand your baby aren't safe, so that's why i suggest keeping your seat belt on the wholetime, as keeping the baby buckled the whole time. now, in case there's an accident orsomething of that nature, it's better that you're safe even if your baby is screamingand is very hungry. so just keep that in mind.

breastfeeding in public debate

>> >>: a photo of two women in the militarybreast feeding in uniform. promotional base posters for national breastfeeding awareness month, but some say it's unprofessional and disgraceful to the uniform.wendy patrick and sdsu lecturer, thank you for being here.who are these women in this photograph? >> >>: they are two members of the internationalguard and they're based up at fair child air force base in washington.as you said, it all started with an idea to promote military moms breast feeding.so a local photographer invited some moms to have their pictures taken, sort of naturephotos outside and most of the women were photographed breast feeding their babies justwearing their civilian clothes.

two of the women were photographed wearingtheir uniforms and when this photographer posted those photos on her website, they startedgetting spread around the internet and that's where the controversy started.>> >>: i know on our website, kpbs.org, where the photos are posted we've been slam wouldso many hits and now so many comments. tell me what some of the people are say saying.>> >>: the comments are really sort of polarizing. you have one side some of the men in the military,or women who have been in the military for awhile saying that it's not something thatshould be done in uniform, that when you wear the uniform you're reflecting something greaterthan yourself. the example's been used you don't talk onthe phone, you don't or cell phoneãš you don't

chew gum, you're representing something different.>> >>: rules of decorum. >> >>: by lifting up the shirt, that's sortof disgracing the uniform. on the other side, you have women and men,too, saying that this is extremely natural, this is what the woman's body was built todo, which is feed these children. the children don't always know when the mom'swearing the uniform or not, they're hungry when they're hungry.so she's doing something very natural and feeding her child and that the issue is reallywithin the person who has the problem, and not the woman who's doing the breast feeding.>> >>: so wendy, i thought we'd been through this debate already, culturally and as a country.so why is it? what is it about these photos

that is causing such an emotional reaction?>> >>: well, i really think that kind of speaks to the issue, it's an emotional reaction.partly on the nature of the photo and partly on the nature of the controversy.women have breast fed all throughout history and will continue to disoo so.the issues are where they do it, when they do it, and while wearing what, in or out ofuniform, that points out the baby has no way of knowing hungry when it's hungry.i think this is an opportunity to talk about all three issues.i think bloggers as all of you know, have seen it as just that.people aren't just commenting on whether these moms shouldn't have taken their uniforms off,or gone to a private place, it has expanded

the discussion of breast feeding in this dayin age where women can't afford to stay home. we have to have duel income families and alot of respects. it's more relevant to talk about it now.>> >>: these are work moms, a lot of working moms.what does the labor law say in terms of a work mom and breast feeding?>> >>: that's a really good question. the labor code talks about the fact that the employerhas to provide accommodations, reasonable time, and space which cannot be a bathroomfor a mom to breast feed. they get a pass to provide those accommodationsif it would seriously disrupt the operations of the employer.we we can speculate to the dpasm examples

of that.are we going to have air traffic controllers breast feeding in front of staff, prison guardsand law enforcement and teachers. we're going soar sort of into the out rageows where the labor code gives some really good specific guidelines as to how an employercan provide reasonable accommodations for moms to do this.>> >>: i do want to let people at home know we did contact the women in the photo.they are no longer doing interviews. they told thus recent media has portrayedmom to mom as not being supportive of the military.we support the military 110% and this was never our intention.beth, doo do we know what's happened to this

these women? are they subject to disciplinaryaction? >> >>: they have been told by their superiorsthey are not to talk to the media. based on what a spokesmen for fair child airforce base said, the issue was never with them, the women breast feeding in their uniform,it was that they promoting a cause while wearing the uniform.the cause was, you know, women breast feeding or military moms breast feeding but they shouldn'thave been wearing the uniforms to promote the cause.that's the issue they had. but they're saying it's an educational momentand these women are not taking an reprimands. >> >>: i want to send people to our website.they can read these comments, make their own,

at kpbs.org, and your blog spot as well?>> >>: home post.org.

breastfeeding in pregnancy

what causes leaking nipples during pregnancy? your body is getting ready to breastfeed ababy. the leaking is normal in the third trimester. it is embarrassing to end up with a wet shirt,much less a sticky bra. there are absorbent pads you can get to minimizethat. maxi pads are inconvenient enough. askingto go to the bathroom to change the pads in my bra is even worse. it’ll be just as bad or worse after youhave the baby. if i’m breastfeeding, it should go away.after all, i’ll be expressing the milk. no, you’ll express more because you’rebreastfeeding. and you could even leak the

moment you hear a baby cry. i heard that this isn’t real breast milk. if you’ve been breastfeeding another childto date, it is breast milk. if not, this is colostrum. never heard of it. it is a high protein, low fat precursor tobreast milk. it’s like the atkins diet for newborns. it is also heavier in antibodies for the newborn.but if the kid is getting breast milk, even if not the colostrum, it’s good for thekid.

does that mean i should be worried if it isn’tleaking? no, just be glad you’re lucky. if you don’tleak after childbirth, then there may be a problem. this feels like a plumbing discussion. ifonly i could turn a wrench and stop it. if you have a blocked duct or infection inthe breast, that would prevent milk from coming out. oh, great, then i’ll feel like a cow thatneeds to be milked. before you have the baby, you should onlysee a few drops leak here and there. what can i do about it, other than get nursingpads?

put your favorite tops in the closet and leavethem there until you’re no longer nursing.

breastfeeding in islam

- hey, guys. just wanna tell you that this video is a reupload. it was removed by youtube for a privacy complaint, meaning somebody who was in the video whose face was featured didn't wanna be in the video. so, they removed it, we didn't get a strike or anything, but essentially, we're just gonna blur out that person's face and uh, reupload it. so, yes, this is the good, same old joey salads reaction video, - "-with her boob comin' out-" - but we thought it shouldn't stay down, we love the video, so we wanna put it back up,

so you guys don't need to watch it if you've already seen it or watch it again if you want an' stay tuned, because more juicy memes are coming soon, guys. thanks so much. did you know that ninety nine percent of all children that go online are raped? and did you know that ninety nine point nine percent of all men are pedophiles? that's the facts. by letting your child walk in this park, you're enabling them to be raped.

your only way to prevent it is to watch my videos. after all... ...it could be anyone. - "are you crazy?! are you outta your moind?!" - "wow, ethan, great moves, keep it up, proud of you!" - "sup, guys, i'm joey salads and in today's soci-" and in today's soci-"- joey salads? joey salads? is that the name you're gonna go with here, buddy?

joey joey syahlads? what's ya favourite salad, joey? what kinda salad d'ya like, buddy? mkay. - "-and in today's society, there are child predators lurking all over the internet." - 'hi, i'm joey salads and i'm riding the wave of 'your children will be raped' mania, made popular by coby persin.' made popular by coby persin.'- "are you outta your moind?!"

- 'watch me and my friends from the local chapter of kkk try to tell you what's wrong with the internet today.' - "they prey on young women into havin' sexual relationships with them and even doing other stuff." - 'and other stuff'? wow, joey, you've got a... you got a really vivid imagination there, buddy. don't- don't go into too much detail now, you don't wanna disturb anybody. - "-and even doing other stuff." - other stuff? ohh boy, gettin' raped is one thing, but the other stuff? oof. oof!

don't think i'll be gettin' to that, huh, joey salads? - "i teamed up with twinztv here and this girl named sarah and we made a video where we would expose these child predators." - it's refreshing to see a buncha dudes actually treating their subject with the seriousness and a passion and a reverence that you just don't see on youtube. they care about it so much that they just need to do it in one take, because it- they're so passionate they need it to get out to the world as soon as possible! there's no way that they can do another take, 'cause there's just too much passion! - "-we used sarah over here, we used her image to create a fake instagram profile,

claimin' that she was fifteen years old." - 'i'm fifteen', who couldn't fall for that? it's so real! must've taken the whole salad thinktank to come up with that biography holy crap! come on, who's the genius salad who thought of this one? was it you, caesar? or was it greek? cobb? come on, cobb, it was you, wasn't it? you're the smart one, everyone loves cobb salad. i guess their second choice was probably

'underage, looking to be raped.' wow, these guys are a couple o' geniuses, you can tell! - "tons of older men hit her up, knowing how young she was. hey, guys, so... we're all hangin' out in the bathroom at the... at the hotel room we rented and the guy, james is comin' over right now, so, she's gonna let him in-" - 'hey, just joey salads reportin' in from the bathroom, me here with all my other salad gang, we're just waitin' for the fun to start and we're gonna get 'im!

we gonna throw ranch dressing all over him, we gonna make him a salad, we'll make him s- part of the salad crew here.' *dramatic music and screaming* leave the door- leave the front door open and just charge her instantly at a hotel room, surrounded by rooms full of people an' leave the door open too, that's... that's the big hitter, right? that way, people walkin' by can join the fun, i guess? is that what you're thinkin' about there, james? - "-this guy outta here. get 'im the fuck outta here. fuckin' creep!"

*unintelligible* - i guess he'll be taking his salad - i guess he'll be taking his salad to go! more justice served by the salad family! - "from this video, you can see how unpredictable these child predators are. this was a very dangerous social experiment to conduct an' i don't condone anyone else to try to do the same. and also check out the video i did with twinztv, where we conducted the same exact experiment, but wit' a funny twist to it."

- ooh, nothin' like a funny twist to the end of a little child rape video. i wanna know what's that twist. we gotta check out that other video, dude! whooo! that intro, dude, these guys mean business! 'twinztv!' - "wassup, guys, i'm here with sarah and joey salads and today, we're doin' 'how to catch a predator'." - these guys tattooed 'twinztv' on their neck? nische- nice life decision, dude. holy crap. i'm sure you guys are gonna be still doin' this in five years when your channel explodes, right? when pranks take over youtube, twinztv is gonna be the king, dude, there's no way they're gonna regret that tattoo. - "we went an' rented out a hotel room and we have a thirty-year-old male coming over.

little does he know, we have a few surprises in store for him. this is 'how to catch a predator', twinztv-style." - you know what joey calls these two guys when they're all in bed together? salad dressing. salad dressing. ooooo salad dressing. ooooo you know what they call- you know what you call it when you get these three guys in bedder- bed together? mixed greens salad, mixed greens salad, euuugh!

fuckin' salad dressing, dude. - "guys, we got the... the guy on the way. - "and a live feed."- "got a live feed goin'..." - "we gotta be extra careful because of what happened last time." - 'gotta be careful because last time, it was so crazy. i mean what are the chances that two outta the two guys we get are both fucking insane pedophile rapists?! what are the chanceeehs?!' hundred percent, apparently, according to all pranks. *knocking on door*

- "just a minute!" - nice sound, my god, what is this fuckin' horrifying sound? what are th- where did they film this? *low-quality buzz* - really nice natural sounds here, you can tell they've got a really nice polished look to their videos - really nice natural sounds here, you can tell they've got a really nice polished look to their videos- "gimme a second!" *low-quality buzz intensifies*- that is becoming of a channel with half a million subscribers, this video has almost a million views, guys! this is the worst sound i've ever heard, i- i can't even watch it! *loud low-quality buzz*egggggh,

egggggh, come on, twinz an' joey salad, g- step up your game, salad family! - "hey, can you grab the toy in the side drawer by the bed?" "play with it for a little bit, i'll be right out!" - they made him play with a dildo! 'hoh, that shows you for bein' a pedophile, buddy! we made you play with a dildo, we made you feel gay! the salad family always wins! you touched a penis, faggot! now you're gay forever! hegheghegh!' *banging on door*

- "lapd, open up!" -"l a f*censor beep*in' p-" - 'holy shit, lapd was in the bathroom the whole time! oh crap!' - "-d?!" - oooh, what?! 'let me just shove you lightly against this nightstand! agh, that's exactly what a pedophile would do in this situation, they wouldn't try to run!' - "*unintelligible* motherf*cker! git 'im!" - what? are they throwing... flour and syrup on him? is that-

is that what street justice looks like? i guess it's better than throwing lettuce an' ranch dressing on him, but still, it's... little bizarre. - "hey sarah, ya alright?" - "she alright?" (i don't get it.)- i guess he'll be taking his salad chopped! - "hey guy, get the f*ck up, dude." - "hey, f*ck you, bruh." - "get the f*ck up, dude. get up."- "f*ck you, motherf*cker."

- "how old are you?"- "f*ckin' old enough to be your daddy, b*tch." - "yeah, you know that girl's only 15, right?" - "i don't care how f*ckin' old she is." - "get the f*ck outta here!" - "as you can clearly see, this social experiment was very dangerous. luckily, no one was hurt in the making of this video, except the guy that i f*cked up." - "-i'm joey salads - "-i'm joey salads salads - "-i'm joey salads salads salads

sup, guys, i'm joey salads-" sup, guys, i'm joey salads-"- "are you crazy?! " - "from this video, you can see how unpredictable these child predators are." - "from this video, you can see how unpredictable these child predators are."- i love salad! i love salad! "sup, guys, i'm joey salads-"- i love salad! i love salad! - i love salad! ooooh! - "- ya motherf*cker, keep your shirt off! keep your shirt-" - "-ssing out on what's out there

in the beautiful world."

breastfeeding in husband

(tranquil music) (babbling toddler) (funny sound effect from tv) - and my joint is clicking? - [toddler] yeah. on your leg. - wow.(funny sound effect) (funny gurgling from cartoon) (giggles) what is that sound? (hushed music)

are we done here? done? (funny sound effect from video game) oh. (music from video game) oh, boy. (snoring sounds) i got my hands full, don't i? hi, i'm like sitting here,and just in the zone.

i'm just relaxing. and he feels, like, one of the bestparts about breastfeeding is that i can actuallyhold a content baby, or he's going to be a toddler soon, but he's content, because he's got the boob. if it wasn't, you know, for the boob, well, maybe a pacifierdoes something similar,

but he would still probably run away with the pacifier in his mouth. but here he can't move,he can't go anywhere, so he's with me, and i get to enjoy him. just holding him, and looking at him. it's amazing. (music from tv) so yeah, that's one of the best parts. i mean, i don't thinkbreastfeeding has any negative

um, sides to it, besides in the beginning, or you know, if youexclusively breastfeed, then you probably can'tleave your baby at home, because they're not bottlefed. sweetie, don't shake my arm. so, um, so that, i guess, couldbe seen as a negative thing, that you can't, like,leave your child at home and go out on a date or something. well, to me it's not a problem,

because i don't go on dates. (laughing) i see my husband day in and day out. so, but yes, a date would be great. that's beyond my point. so, being able to breastfeed, nurse him like that on a couch, or in bed, is wonderful. good morning, sweetie.

look who else is awake! how are you? - i'm good. - oh, that's great. (laughs) oh my goodness. isn't that a lot of people? it sure feels like it to me. - [toddler] hey, did you see that fish? that fish was very poky.

- ah, pufferfish? - yeah. - yeah, pufferfish. all right, everyone. - [toddler] if something is - - this little guy is probablydone, so i'm going to go and feed myself before theseboys say they're hungry. ow ow ow! - [toddler] mom, are yougoing to go rest with-- - no biting!

- [toddler] are you goingto put avi to sleep-- - there you go. - [toddler] and rest, or something? - (laughing) biting me at the end. - [toddler] mom. - he's like, "hmm, let me see."(mimicking nibbling sound) (squealing child in background) okay, everybody. thanks for watching. bye.

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♪ ♪ ♪ breastfeeding doesn'talways come naturally to mothers and can beespecially difficult in the beginning. but moms,did you know that having a supportive partner makesthe process much easier? dads or dads-to-be,this one is for you. first of all, moms aremore likely to breastfeed when their partnersupports that decision. they're also more likelyto continue to nurse when

dad is on board. before thebaby is born, dad should accompany their partnerto breastfeeding classes. help her research andprovide moral support. they should also step up tothe plate once the baby comes by encouraging her, findinghelp if she needs it and doing more chores aroundthe house. and just because the mother is the one nursing,dads can also get up in the middle of the night andoffer to change a diaper or get their partnersome water or a snack.

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breastfeeding husband and baby

another great thing to always have with you,sometimes two if you have a brand new baby that spits up a lot, is an extra blankie.now what you do to start that process is you put one side over your arm opposite the breastthat you are breast feeding from and then you use the other part to cover over. letme show you that one more time with the actual baby. alright let's try that one more time.what you want to do is take the opposite corner of the baby that you are breast feeding withand you put it over your shoulder and then you can cover up the baby and adjust underneaththe blanket and no one will be the wiser. this is a really fashionable thing you canwear to that is great for new mothers. it's called a pashmina. let me demonstrate howyou do that. i will do it first without the

baby. or you could tuck the baby in and youput it over one shoulder, kind of tuck it underneath and then you can bring the othershoulder over while you are holding the baby. let me show you that one more time with thebaby. we will try that one more time with the baby here. so you take the pashmina andput it over your shoulder, tuck this in and then you can pull the other one to the otherside and you cant even tell that the baby is there, very hidden.

breastfeeding how to

hey guys! welcome back to another episodeof nguyen's world. every mom has a different comfort level whenit comes to breastfeeding in public. for me, i was extremely nervous, and it took me sometime to build my confidence and get used to my new routine. if you're a breastfeedingmom, you know that breastfeeding in public is sometimes unavoidable. so today i'm goingto share with you my 5 tips to help you feel more confident about breastfeeding in public. tip #1 nurse right before your activities.(or as my husband likes to call it, pre-gaming) by doing this, you can maximize the amountof time you have while you're out and about, before your baby's next feeding. i usually nurse in the car when we get to our destination.

tip #2: feed your baby before she cries. payattention to your baby's feeding cues and anticipate when you think she'll be hungry.then offer your breast to her and see if she'll feed. you want to do this early enough toavoid waiting until your baby is screaming and crying, which will draw even attentionto you. a crying baby is more impatient and may result in a poor latch or fussiness whenfeeding. tip #3: find a spot where you and your babywill feel comfortable and relaxed. if you're in a restaurant, try sitting in a booth orsit at table that's facing away from people. if you're out shopping, you can nurse inthe fitting room. if you're at the park, you can breastfeed sitting on a bench. youwant to find a place where you can sit comfortably

with support for your back and that has lesstraffic, to avoid bringing attention to yourself. which brings me to my next tip, wear clothesthat you can easily nurse in. you don't even have to buy expensive nursing tops. youcan basically just wear anything that opens up in the front, like a button-down blouse or a top with a stretchy neck.my favorite is wearing a loose fitting t-shirt that you can just lift up.i usually wear a tank top underneath that just to cover my belly. and i saved the best for last. practice nursing in a baby carrier. once you have mastered this, you will findbreastfeeding in public much easier. we have the ergo baby carrier and after i learnedhow to breastfeed in it, i just felt so relieved

to know that i could breastfeed her anytimeshe needed to and i didn't have to worry about scooting off to some dark corner tofeed her. natalie loves being in the baby carrier and if she wants to breastfeed, ijust make a few adjustments and cover her head and people just think she's asleep.and i still have my hands free to do whatever i need to do and walk around at the same time!this tip has absolutely become a lifesaver for us. so i hope you found this video helpful. pleasegive this video a thumbs up if you did and don't forget to subscribe by clicking thelink right here. and let me know in the comments below if you have any tips for breastfeedingin public. thank you so much for watching

and i'll see you in the next video. bye!

breastfeeding how often

hi everyone! i’m melissa, welcome back tocloudmom. answering a question today from a viewer mayni, who wrote into our email accounton the site, thank you so much for writing in. and here’s what she is wondering about,"hi there, i’m hoping for some hope,” ok, we’re going to try to give you hopehere at cloudmom, "i have a super well-behaved three month old but i really want to get himon a feeding schedule. he wakes up crying hysterically and i try and calm him down buthe’s hungry and doesn’t want to wait. not sure how to create a routine when thishappens. thanks." ok thank you, oh by the way i just read you wrote into our facebookpage so sorry i got that wrong, but let’s back up a bit here. thank you so much forwriting in, three-month-old baby, ok. that

is still a very young baby. at this age, mostbabies are eating six to seven times a day, they’re eating every three to four hourson average. what my recommendation is is the following, and i have a full schedule whichis also printable on my website so i’ll link to that from below this video so checkthat out too, but here’s my recommendation when it comes to a schedule. try to beginfeeding the baby on a regular basis starting at say seven or eight in the morning, let’sjust say seven. you sit down, you feed your baby, you make sure your baby is awake, andyou make sure your baby is burped, and you make sure your baby is full meaning that he’sburped, he’s awake, he’s full and he’s rejecting more food. about an hour and a halflater, try to put your baby down for a nap.

ten o’clock, roughly three hours after youbegan that first feed, feed your baby again. and continue this routine for the rest ofthe day. now, your baby might wake up earlier than the three hours crying as you describehere, and in that case feed your baby, because it’s very likely that the baby is hungryand babies don’t always follow the exact schedule you want them to. but then, withthat feeding say he wakes up after two hours, it’s 9 am, feed the baby again, make surethe baby’s awake, make sure the baby’s burped, make sure the baby is rejecting morefood. about an hour and a half later, put the baby down for a nap and see what happens.and here’s what happens when you follow the schedule, which happened for me five timesso hope it will happen for you. sooner or

later your baby will start to do longer stintsat night because during the day they are awake enough and they’re getting enough food,so they’ll start to do longer stints at night and you’ll start to get longer stretchesof sleep at night yourself. as a mom, you’ll start to see that the early morning feedsstart to drop off, then the late night feeds start to drop off, and eventually the babywill go around 12 hours sleeping through the night and getting most of their food duringthe day eating four or five times. that is sort of the general cycle of things. i wouldnot worry if your baby wakes up crying with hunger, that’s super normal, that’s whatbabies do, just make sure you feed your baby in the way i described and everything shouldbe fine. so i hope this is helpful, i’m

going to link through to the schedule whichis on my website on cloudmom.com and i have a lot of other videos there when it comesto babies and feeding and scheduling and breastfeeding and bottle-feeding also so please check thoseout. thank you so much for writing in, sorry i’m a little jumbled today! and i will seeyou next time.

breastfeeding how long

she was a milk machine she kept the house unclean she was the cutest damn baby that i'd ever seen she had the brightest eyes and the loudest cries couldn't get enough of those chubby thighs eating more than her share she was pulling my hair she told me, "let down!" but i was already there cause the milk starts makin'

baby starts wakin' my nipples start achin' you start taking it and you, nursed me all night long yeah you, nursed me all night long i'm working double time to fend off the cryin' can't get no sleep, won't let me be supine needed no applause- i'm just another course make a meal out of me

wants more, more, more! had to drain me down to take another round she eats like a pig and takes another swig yeah you nursed me all night long i can't get no sleep i said you nursed me all night long my boobs are empty and you yeah you nursed me when you were thirsty

you were really thirsty and you yeah yeah you nursed me all night long my nipples are nubs now and you nursed me all night long all night long

breastfeeding health benefits

health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers

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hey everyone i just wanted to take[pause and whispers] i am sorry a i guess i will talk a little quieter, she was almost asleep i justwanted to take a moment and give you all a quick update it is our 15 month mark of nursing since scarlet was born so we're doing extended breastfeeding and inurse her on demand so what that means is whenever wherever she wants to nursethen i do my best to accommodate that so someone asked if i was still nursing her exclusively and so what do you consider exclusive? she is eating a lot of solid foods sheeats breakfast lunch dinner snacks but still nurses alot i would say on average 12to 20 times a day and she still gets up in the night probably two to three times soi'll nurse her when she goes to sleep she'll sometimes sleep till 2 a.m. but usually gets up on time before then and then she will feed again at about two and then she'll go back down maybe

get a drink you know around 5:30 and then go back to sleep so that is kind of our schedule[laughs] and the fifteen -twenty times during the day that she nurses there's notreally long nursing sessions maybe like now when she's napping she'll nurse for longer but a lot oftimes it's just she's thirsty, she wants a drink so she'll show me that she wants she'll tap me on the chest like okay i want some and then when she drinks she'll drink from the one side and then she wants to drink from the other side so she will tap or tug i don't know if she thinks it tastes different, it comes out at a different speed you know really what i thinks is that the milk that first comes out it's more water and that is more to quench the thirst milk is more and hind milk is more filling and so i think sometimes she is just thirsty doesn't neccisarily need the thick nourishment she just needs a drink.

she also likes to drink water i use a sippy cup sometimes but normally she just plays with it and splashes it everywhere. so what i've found works best is when she sees me take a drink out of a cup and then she'll want a drink out of the cup as well. i'll help her with that or sometimes let her do it on her own. [laughs] that normally ends up in a change of clothes. but thats okay, that is how they learn. she's 15 months and i would say 70 percent of the time she can drink a little water and not get it all over her shirt i definitely encourage you to breastfeed on demand and let your baby choose when to wean if you're able to and in a position too because it is such good bonding and so good for their health.

if you have any questions that will help you on your breastfeeding journey feel free to comment below and if you love this video please give it a thumbs up and share it with other nursing moms or parents that you know! thanks so much and subscribe to our channel if you would like to learn more!

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hormones! those things that maketeenagers moody and miserable, and they cause growth spurtsand acne, and they can make a perfectly normal student totallyobsessed with his algebra teacher. not that i have any real, boots-on-the-groundexperience with that last one. but all that mayhem is justthe handiwork of your sex hormones. the fact is that thereare more than 50 different kinds of hormones coursingthrough you right now, and all multicellular organismsproduce one kind or another.

for instance, hormones regulatethe process of metamorphosis in insects, and they're whatstimulate plants to grow and fruits to ripen. in animals, the network thatmakes and releases hormones, your endocrine system,is one of the two ways, along with the nervous system,that important information is communicated from onepart of your body to another. right now, your endocrinesystem is spraying hormones into your bloodstream thatare doing all kinds of things

all over your body:giving instructions to other glands, regulating the levels of salt,sugar and water in your blood, telling your heart to beat faster, and, yes, they're partlyresponsible for that daydream you may or may not be havingabout taylor lautner right now. but keep your eye on the prize here! we're doing science! pay attention! the endocrine system and thenervous systems both carry information around the body,but while the nervous system

carries information reallyquickly and the responses are usually short-lived,endocrine responses take a while to get going, but their effectscan last for hours or even weeks. the word hormone comes from thegreek for "to arouse activity," and they're secretedby endocrine glands, the series of organsthat also manufacture them. in addition to endocrine glands,you also have exocrine glands like salivary glandsand sweat glands, and as you can tell by the name,they send stuff outside the body,

whereas endocrineskeep the "-crines," which is greek for "secretions," in. and your glands are allover the freakin' place: some of the heaviest hittersare in your brain, but you also have them in yourthroat, right over your kidneys, right below your stomach, and ofcourse in your baby-making areas. all glands have blood vesselscoming from them so that hormones that they release can getinto the bloodstream fast. and many of your hormonescirculate through your whole body,

only binding to thecells that have the right receptor proteins that fit them. but there are somehormone-driven messaging systems that are more localized. for instance, paracrine signalingreleases hormone molecules that degrade really quicklyand are only received within a small region in the body. example: testosterone, manufacturedby the testes, tells the testes how many sperm they need tobe making right this second.

and to see hormones workon an even smaller scale, get a load of autocrine signaling, which sends chemicalmessages within a cell, or from one cell to theadjacent cell, at most. this is what happens in yourimmune system when a single t-cell realizes it needs tostart cloning itself so it can fight off a virus. your cells receive hormonesthrough signal receptors, but how and where ahormone binds to its receptor

depends on what kindof hormone it is. there are three different types:steroids, which do a lot more than make your muscles big andget you all angry and stuff. steroids are derived from cholesterol and there's a bunch ofdifferent types of them. there are peptides, which arejust chains of amino acids. and monoamines, which are basedon a single amino acid. the only really important thing weneed to keep straight about these is that peptide and aminehormones are water-soluble

and don't dissolve in lipids. and since cell membranesare made of lipids, those hormones can'tpass into a cell. instead, they bind with receptors that are on the surface of the cell. but steroids are lipid-soluble,so they're able to penetrate the membrane and bind withreceptors in the cell's nucleus. using these methods, the endocrinesystem sends out all kinds of important chemical bulletins,many of which start up in the brain,

in a tiny gland aboutthe size of a pea. the pituitary gland. the pituitary gland,it's the master gland, the napoleon of the endocrine system. except that napoleon actuallywasn't very small, that's a myth, but you get what i'm saying. the pituitary gland makeshormones that instruct other glands to make other hormones, and those hormones actuallyget the real leg work done.

the pituitary is connectedto the hypothalamus, the part of the brainthat acts as a liaison between the nervous systemand the endocrine system. so a big part of its job is totell your glands what to do based on information it gets from yoursenses and other nerve functions. for example, breastfeeding womenwill start releasing milk when their baby starts crying. sensory information,in this case auditory, comes to the hypothalamus fromthe nervous system telling it

that there's a little snuggle ofbaby nearby that might be hungry. this causes the hypothalamusto nudge the pituitary gland, which in turn releases hormones that stimulate milk productionand secretion. pretty cool! the pituitary gland sits directlyunderneath the hypothalamus and has 2 lobes, which are actually twodifferent glands fused together. the posterior pituitary is anextension of the hypothalamus and it secretes two hormones that areactually made by the hypothalamus. on of them is oxytocin, whichstimulates contraction of the uterus

during childbirth andhelps with breastfeeding, but it probably also has a rolein things like social recognition, pair bonding, orgasms, and anxiety.which is interesting and weird. and the other hormone secreted bythe posterior pituitary is antidiuretic hormone, which tellsthe kidneys to retain water. the anterior pituitary on theother hand both manufactures and secretes awhole battery of hormones and one of the places thesehormones end up is the thyroid. the thyroid regulates yourmetabolism, your appetite,

muscle function, blood pressure,heart rate, among other things, and the way it interacts withthe pituitary is a good example of a negative feedback loop, a methodof communication that's common all over the body, and especiallyin the endocrine system. basically, the pituitary islike the thyroid's thermostat. it can read how much thyroidhormone is in your bloodstream, and when its levels are low,it spits out a tiny bit of thyroid-stimulating hormone,or tsh, which travels to the thyroid. the thyroid, in turn,secretes thyroid hormone

which boosts our metabolism. and that increase inmetabolism tells the pituitary to stop sending out tsh. so the effect of thepituitary's secretion is a signal to secrete less of it,and that's the negative feedback. other glands that arecontrolled by his royal highness the pituitary glandinclude adrenal glands. these guys sit right on top ofthe kidneys and are in charge of making hormones that help thekidneys maintain the level of salt

and water in yourbody, but they also, you may have heard,respond to stress. wanna see how it works? well, let's say you're walkingdown the street minding your own business and you gethit in the face by an angry duck. let's say that thisis unusual for you, and you don't know what's going on, just that you're beingattacked by something. as soon as the sympatheticnervous system senses

that something potentiallydangerous is happening, the hypothalamus tells thepituitary gland to secrete adrenocorticotropic hormone,or acth for those of us who don't have all freakin' day. this stimulates the adrenalglands to make epinephrine, also known as adrenaline. now, the epinephrine in yourbloodstream will tell a bunch of different organs to do a bunchof different things, all at once: cut off blood supply to yourdigestive system, send a bunch

of blood to your lungs and muscles,and speed up your heart rate. all to help you on your questto vanquish this dastardly drake. unlike pretty much every othermuscle contraction in your body, your heart is controlledby the endocrine system, as well as your nervous system! you may have noticedthat after a scare, your heart races for acouple of minutes afterwards? that's because the epinephrineis still in your bloodstream, telling your heartto race like crazy,

even after you're no longerin mortal danger or whatever. alright, i know you're wondering whenwe're going to get to the gonads. but let me warm you up firstwith the function of your pancreas. super sexy gland,the biggest in the body. i've mentioned a couple of timesthat glands regulate the balance of solutes in your blood: this is one of the mostimportant things that the endocrine system does, and no onedoes it better than your pancreas. because its job is to regulate thelevels of glucose in your blood,

and since glucose iswhat makes cellular respiration, and therefore, your life,possible, this is important. when the concentrationof blood glucose rises, say after you eat acouple of ho ho's, the pancreas secretesinsulin into the blood. the insulin thentravels around your body and stimulates pretty much everytype of body cell to absorb glucose. liver and muscle cells convertthe glucose to glycogen for storage, and other cellsin the connective tissue

called adipose cellsconvert the glucose into fat. but if your blood sugar is too low, your pancreas has gotyour back there, too. say you're in a pushupcontest with, christian bale. you're going to lose,but you're going to try. and trying, is going torequire quite a lot of energy. your friendly pancreas willrelease another hormone, glucagon, which stimulates the liverand muscles to start the process that breaks up the glycogenand fat to release the glucose,

so that you can loseto christian bale. but you know, losing tochristian bale is better than winning against most people. alright, so now thatwe're back to muscular men, let's get back to everybody'sfavorite topic. the gonads! sex glands come intwo different flav- that's not the right word. flavors? that's bad. ok. whatever.we're just going to go with it.

there's the testes andthere's the ovaries. they get instructions from thepituitary gland to make sex hormones. the testes make androgens, the mainone of these being testosterone, which helps with sperm-making,among other things. ovaries make estrogens andprogestins which stimulate the growth of the uterine liningand some other stuff. like what other stuff? well, you might think that yourbiological sex is determined by the parts that you have.but that's only kind of true.

it turns out that why we'reeither male or female has a lot to do with hormones. someone get me a chair.so i can tell you how we know that. back in the 1940's frenchembryologist alfred jost was studying sex differentiation in bunniesbecause that's what you do when you're a french embryologistin the 1940's, apparently. he wondered whether thehormones secreted by the gonads during embryonic developmenthad anything to do with whether a bunny embryo turned outto be a boy or a girl.

so he very carefully,very, very carefully, and this is a little disturbing, removed bunny embryosfrom their mother, and then, also very carefully, removed the part that wouldbecome the ovaries or the testes from the bunny embryos,and then, also very carefully, he put the embryos backin the mama rabbit. what jost found after thebunnies were born was that the ones that he performed thesurgery on turned out to be girls.

so, in the absence of gonads,and therefore hormones that specifically instructedthe development of testes and the growth of a peepeeand a deep bunny voice, he discovered thatthe default setting for mammalian embryosis make it female. so, sex hormones are hard atwork even during fetal development to make us who we are. but they're super hard atwork during puberty, when the pituitary gland putsthe gonads on red alert,

in boys telling the testes tomake a whole lot of androgens like testosterone that lower thevoice, make a bunch of hair, increase muscle and bone mass, and encourage people to do stupidstunts and post them on youtube. in girls, estrogens, the mostimportant one being estradiol and progestins, like progesterone,kick off the process of menstruation and breast growthand all that good stuff, largely helping the female body getready to grow and nurse a baby. but what we still don'tunderstand very well is

how sex hormones affect our emotions. we do know that, for instance,that estrogen is required for the manufacture of serotonin,the neurotransmitter that gives us a sense of calm and well-being. so when estrogen levelsdrop quickly during a woman's menstrual cycle,it can make her feel off kilter. but the effects of sex hormones,not just on our bodies, but our minds remainsa significant mystery. which is good, because idon't want to even go there.

thank you for watching thisepisode of crash course biology. table of contents over thereif you want to revisit anything. thanks to everyone who helpedput this episode together. and if you have any questionsfor us, there's facebook, there's twitter, and of course,there's the comments below.

breastfeeding growth chart

hi, everybody. this is stefan molyneux. thisis the truth about breastfeeding. please, please, please, make it through the presentation.this is really, really essential information. of course, if you know somebody who is bigwith child or of childbearing age, please forward it to them. this is stuff that youneed to know before you become a mother and father. let's do a little bit of background and thenwe will give you the information that will blow your mind and hopefully clinch the casefor breastfeeding at least until the first prom date. lactation, as you know, is the secretion ofmilk from the mammary gland. it also describes

the time period in which the mother lactatesto feed her young. the process occurs in all female mammals but in humans, it's generallyreferred to as nursing or breastfeeding. now, of course, exclusive breastfeeding refersto the feeding of only breast milk from the breast and no bottle feeding or other liquidsor solids with the exception of drops or syrups which have vitamins, minerals, supplementsor medicines. now, when the center for disease control andprevention, the cdc, weighs in, you might want to pay attention. they have said, "breastmilk is widely acknowledged as the most complete form of nutrition for infants with the rangeof benefits for infants' health, growth, immunity," which we'll get to in a second, "and development."the american academy of pediatrics and other

organizations such as the american medicalassociation and the american dietetic association and the world health organization all recommendbreastfeeding as best for babies. in addition, the aap recommends exclusive breastfeedingfor the first six months and encourages nursing for at least a year longer if the mother andbaby are enjoying it. now, of course, with infant formula and otheralternatives, breastfeeding is not the only option available and some women choose toforego breastfeeding altogether. now, in this presentation, we're going to have a look atthe history, functions, benefits, attitudes and prevalence of breastfeeding as well assome of the alternatives and their effectiveness. now, obviously, nutrition is the primary functionof breast milk but this is very important

because a newborn has no natural immunitiesof its own. the mother's breast milk provides not only essential nutrients but a way forthe mother to pass on her already developed immunities to her baby. this is what keepsthe germs at bay. the immune benefits in breast milk come froma substance called secretory immunoglobulin a (iga). it's present in large amounts inthe first milk a mother's body produces for her baby called colostrum. this is the good-to-keep-you-safejuice that goes straight into the baby and start building the immune system. it's stillpresent in mature breast milk but in lower concentrations. a woman's breast milk is very specificallytailored to her baby in a way that formula

obviously can't be. her body response to theviruses and bacteria that she is exposed to and in turn, her body creates this iga that'sspecific to those pathogens. this protection is then passed on to the baby through breastfeeding. this is important. one of the things thatdoctors have talked about is the superbug, these superbugs that are resistant to antibioticsand one of the reasons that this is happening is -- we've got a presentation coming up calledthe truth about daycare about the degree to which particularly having infants in daycarecauses mass illnesses that require this sort of airstrikes of antibiotics which raisesresistance of these bugs. but this is also when you have less breastfeeding, then youhave babies more susceptible to infections

which means more antibiotics, which meansbreading more superbugs. it's really, really quite important for the overall health ofthe community to focus on providing these kinds of safeties to your baby. iga forms a protective layer on the mucusmembranes in the baby's intestines, nose and throat, protecting the baby against invadinggerms. what happens in the future? well, bonding of course is an important function of breastfeedingas well. babies that don't experience eye contact, soft voices, skin on skin contactsoften have what is called the failure to thrive which means that they just kind of get sickand sometimes even die without that kind of contact. we need it as much as we need oxygenjust in a slightly different timeframe. skin

to skin contact is important for the releaseof hormones such as oxytocin and vasopressin linked to emotional and social bonding. thebeginning of empathy training, of sensitivity to others, of the capacity to focus on win-winnegotiations and be a good friend, a future good husband and lover is all rooted in skinon skin contact and one of the most beautiful ways to achieve that of course is througheye contact and breastfeeding. many children who have not had ample physicaland emotional attention have higher risk for behavioral, emotional and social problemsas they grow up. you may feel, "f your mom. i don't have time to breastfeed. i got toget things done. i got to get back to work or whatever. so much of life is pay me anhour or pay me later. if you really don't

want to have as many troubles with your teenager,the important thing is to set the bond, set the contact right up front. of course, improvethe quality of their infancy if they're getting sick less because you're breastfeeding themthen their experience of the world is much better. as we've talked about it in anotherpresentation that i hope you would check out, the truth about circumcision. if you havea boy, let's say, don't let the doctors remove half of his penis skin. at 2013, a study at brown university usingmri brain imaging shows breastfeeding improves brain development in infants. breastfeedingimprove brain development in infants. this hasn't been measured as far as i know to aspecific iq gain but i imagine there is one.

we certainly know that there's a three tofive-point iq drop for children who are spanked. so if you breastfeed and don't spank, yourkid is going to -- think of it as a massive investment in saving money because boy, they'resure to get some sort of scholarship rather than having you cough up 25 large year forthem to go to college. exclusive breastfeeding for at least threemonths produce better brain development than a combination of breastfeeding and formulawhich itself produce better development than formula alone. this nature's milk grows yourbaby's brain and there's no substitute for it. to deny your baby breast milk if you areall physically capable of providing it is to harm the baby's brain development, it'sto harm the baby's immunosuppressants and

immune system early on in life. it interfereswith the quality of the baby's emotional development and so to me, it seems like a no-brainer andit certainly was the case with my wife and i but we want to make the case scientificallyand not just from my opinion. this extra growth in the brain was most pronouncedin the parts of the brain associated with language, emotional function and cognition.if there are three things that you want your baby's brain to do well, it is not to juggleor do tricks or be a fire swallower. what you want your baby's brain is to develop languagebecause as soon as the baby develops language you can learn to negotiate which means thatyou can find win-win situations to conflicts, so solutions to conflicts, emotional functioningyou want so the kid is not having tantrums

and hitting things and cognition. the moreintelligent your child is the easier job you're going to have as a parent. in another study, infants who were breastfedfor at least six months scored higher on math, reading and spelling test at age ten thanthose breastfed for less than six months. i'm not a huge fan of public schools to saythe least but one of the reasons that certain poorest sections of society may have problemsin school, the kids may have problems in school is because of lack of empathy, lack of emotionaldevelopment, cognitive development, language development and brain functioning. we'll talkabout that in a few minutes. what's good for the mom. oh, the baby vampirediet is what we're going to talk about here.

suckling of the baby in the hours and daysafter birth releases oxytocin in the mother as well. therefore, she does not have to snortit off the baby's head. this hormone signals the breast to release milk to the baby aswell as producing contracting of the uterus to prevent postpartum bleeding and begin returningthe uterus to a pre-pregnancy state, internal surgery of some kind. the return of menstrualperiod is delayed as long as the mother breastfeeds exclusively. we'll mix it up there. this isimportant in the conservation of iron in the mother's body and often provides natural spacingof pregnancies. production of milk can use between 200 and500 calories a day on average. breastfeeding mothers tend to lose weight more easily afterchild birth so you don't end up with that

little post-baby pooch. studies have confirmedthat non-breastfeeding mothers lose less weight and don't keep it off as well as breastfeedingmoms. a 2002 study published in the british medicaljournal, the lancet, analyzed individual data from 47 studies in 30 countries including50,302 women with breast cancer and almost 100,000 without the disease. the study foundthat a woman's risk for breast cancer decrease by 4.3% for every 12 months she breastfedduring her lifetime. the risk also decreased seven percent for every child born. to repeatthat, this is so important, a woman's risk for breast cancer decrease by over four percentfor every 12 months she breastfed during her lifetime and seven percent for every childborn. this is a chilling case of use it or

lose it. a 2002 study published in the american journalof epitome ideology analyzed 12 case-controlled studies and showed that women who breastfedhad a 20% lower risk of developing ovarian cancer than those who did not. just think,i mean we stop smoking. we put sunscreen on because we want to reduce our risk of cancer.this is a 20% drop in the risk of contracting ovarian cancer. why have the kids if you'renot going to do everything you can to be around as long as possible? mothers who develop gestational diabetes andbreastfeed have lower blood sugars after birth than those non-breastfeeding mothers.

now what are the concerns? there are timeswhen a woman should not breastfeed. what are those? of course, if you're hiv-positive,the virus can be passed to the infant through breast milk. if the mother has active, untreatedtuberculosis, in other words if she's fallen out of the pages of a dickens novel, whenthe mother is receiving chemotherapy for cancer, when the mother is using illegal drugs suchas heroin, cocaine or marijuana, when the mother is taking certain prescription medications,drugs for migraine headaches, parkinson's disease or arthritis. i guess the latter twowill be kind of a christmas miracle. when the baby has one of a few rare genetic conditionsin which they cannot digest either the sugars or the proteins in breast milk. these areobviously pretty rare.

lack of milk production is also a concernfor new mothers. while breastfeeding is natural, it does not necessarily come naturally. well,amen to that. patience and learning good technique are key factors. some mothers with low milkproduction may be able to solve the problem with the right support. currently, there isa growing profession devoted exclusively to helping with breastfeeding issues called lactationconsulting. fair warning it is not the boy in his early teens next door no matter whathe says. transfer of chemicals through breast milkis definitely a growing concern as well due to the higher number of new medications onthe market. household chemicals that the mother is exposed to may show up in breast milk.there are more and more studies being conducted

on chemicals showing up in harmful levelsfor the baby. this list is frequently being revised. talking to a pediatrician or lactationconsultant is the best way to alleviate fears and especially by your breastfeeding is goodidea in general, especially when you're breastfeeding, you try and live as natural as possible. shoparound the edges of the supermarket and try a few packaged goods as possible. infant formula. they're first developed byhenri nestlã©. in the 1860s, infant formula did not become popular until much later becauseyou have boobs. during the post world war ii baby boom, the nestlã© company launcheda massive ad campaign to promote their baby formula. advertisements often implied thatbabies needed more than just breast milk for

optimal health and nourishment. they emphasizedhow closely formula approximated breast milk's chemical composition. this, just a very brief aside, this is somethingthat drives me a little bit nuts about advertising and advertisers, and not just advertising.remember this thing where it's like you got to drink eight glasses of water a day, turnedout to be a complete nonsense. your body will say, "hey, i'm thirsty," when it wants somethingto drink. there's always this argument that you have to do something to get to go, goand get some sort of cleanse by putting tentacles up your butt or something and you don't needto cleanse. your body has already developed its capacity to clean its innards and it doesn'tactually need to be that clean. you need a

bacteria in there anyway. this idea that somehow we need plus, we needsomething else, we need something that billions of years of evolution has left us shy off,be very skeptical of those kinds of claims. formula and bottles became quite popular atthat time because women needed to be able to leave their babies behind to help in thewar efforts. don't the endless benefits of war just leave you agog? the baby boomer generationis the first generation to have been bottle-fed on a large scale. this may have somethingto do with disco and polyester studies are still underway. due to metabolic stress experienced, infantformula feeding appears to contribute to the

development of several common childhood illnessesincluding atrophy, hyperallergy, diabetes, childhood obesity, and other conditions inadult life. today, some women choose to use formula so another person can take of theirchild, a family member or childcare provider typically so the mother can return to worksooner. okay. if you want to have a baby, please tryand stay home with the baby. if you cannot stay home with the baby, postpone having thebaby until you can stay home with the baby. that's it. so improvements to infant formulacontinue to be made. no true replacement for breast milk exists. don't think i'm part ofthe patriarchy. i'm a stay at home dad. although i'm all taps and no plumbing, my boobs comewith no milk but with floss. anyway, formula

sales have decreased after world war ii dueto lower birthrates and education initiatives that highlighted the benefits of breastfeeding.to counter this loss in sales, nestlã© and other such companies began focusing theirmarketing campaigns in developing countries. in the mid-1970s nestlã©'s dubious, to sayas nicely as possible, formula marketing practices in south africa came to light. it was foundthat they were sending so-called milk nurses into hospitals' clinics and private homesto instruct poor women on the use of formula for their babies. these were women dressedin nurses' uniforms but very few of them were actually nurses or healthcare professionals. these south african mothers rarely had accessto clean running water and mixing the formula

with contaminated water often led to diarrheaand sometimes, the infant's death. overtime of course, when you're formula-feeding a baby,the mother's breast milk dries up leaving her no other option but formula. but due tothe high cost, some mothers were watering it down to make it last longer which led tomalnutrition. in july of 1977, the infant formula actioncoalition launched a nationwide boycott of nestlã© in the us. this boycott soon spreadto australia, canada, new zealand and europe. in 1979, the international baby food actionnetwork was formed to raise awareness of such detrimental practices of supplementary feedingof new babies with formula and the inappropriate promotion of baby formula and to help changeattitudes that discouraged or inhibit mothers

from breastfeeding their babies. there's profit for evil capitalists in thepromotion of this stuff and this is frankly profit in governments to get women into theworkforce. i mean, if a woman is staying at home, you cannot tax the woman. if the womangoes to work, well, you get to tax the baby formula that is sold. you get to tax the womanwho's gone back to work. you get to often tax the childcare providers that she's payingto take care of her child. yay for governments, nay for babies and the future of the species. in 1981, the 34th world health assembly adoptedresolution wha 34.22 which includes the international code of marketing of breast milk substitutes.the code dictates who could advice parents

on the use of breast milk substitutes, limitswho manufacturing companies can distribute information to and sets forth labeling requirements.the usa was the only member state to vote against it, only endorsing it in 1994. nestlã© is still in and out of the news andthe courts due to violations of the code in various countries around the world. they havebeen fined for violating certain aspects of the code but have not been held directly responsiblefor any infant deaths to be fair. i'm sure lots of people have tried. in fact, nestlã©boycott is ongoing. similar to attitude of the 1500, by the 1950sthe predominant attitude to breastfeeding was that it was something practiced by theuneducated and the lower classes. breastfeeding

was discouraged by medical practitioners andmedia of the time and was considered old-fashioned and a little disgusting for those who couldafford infant formula. this is the way the society reorganizes itself.if the higher classes are a little bit more intelligent, then people target them, appealto their vanity and then they don't breastfeed their kids which makes their kids less intelligent.the young are breastfeeding their kids. the poor are breastfeeding their kids making themmore intelligent. this is the cycle of life and intelligence. the smarter women are the ones who want togo out to work more which means that their babies get less cognitive development whichmeans that it's the shirt's sleeves to -- bowties

the shirt's sleeves in three generations.letters and editorials to canadian women's lifestyle magazine chatelaine from 1945 toas late as 1995 regarded breastfeeding -- those letters regarding breastfeeding were predominantlynegative. i think the technical term was like, "ew." however, since the middle 1960s there hasalso been a study researching some of the practice of breastfeeding in canada and theus especially among more educated and affluent women. this is -- some thinkers have said,it's the great rediscovery. like, "hey, let's live in a commune and not shower." "hey, we'vegot licensed scabies." it's just stuff we kind of have to keep relearning over and overand over again. like, "hey. charity should

be taken care of by judges and local institutionsand people who actually care." "no, let's give it to the government." oh, let's bringit back to local charities and institutions because it's just a great learning we keephaving to do over and over again until we get it right. breastfeeding trends have seen ups and downsover the last five centuries but in general breastfeeding has been on the rise since themid-1970s. the cdc collects a comprehensive set of breastfeeding data via the nationalimmunization survey in the us. the survey covers three years of children's lives. themost recent data is for the birth year 2010. these surveys show that for babies born in2010, 77% of new mothers started breastfeeding

at birth. this included all women who havebreastfed any amount and for any length of time, could be a flyby, could be a bungeejump, days, weeks or months. for the birth year 2000, that number was 71%.yay moms! keep it going! these data also track breastfeeding duration and showed that ofthe initial number 49% who are breastfeeding at six months, sadly, about only 27% was stillbreastfeeding up to 12 months. when only looking at women who breastfed exclusively,that number declined significantly. of course, if you are pumping breast milk, hopefullynot in an executive level cubicle but at home and then the baby gets, the nutritional valueof course, gets the immunosuppressant value but not quite as much of this sort of skinto skin value.

only 38% of new mothers breastfed exclusivelyfor the first three months which dropped to 16% for the first six months. of those whodid not breastfed exclusively, 24% supplemented infant formula before the baby was two daysold, before the baby was two days old. i know it's a struggle. that was a struggle for usbut it is worth sticking it through. of course, you start supplementing infant formula andyour breast say, "oh. i guess baby didn't make it or what. i really start to dry upa little." so 24% supplemented infant formula beforetwo days old. 36% for three months old and 43% before six months old, resist, resist,resist, i won't argue. oh, i think the science and data argues.

according to the cdc's most recent breakdownof socio-demographic data before the birth year 2007, neither birth order nor sex showeda pronounced effect on the right of breastfeeding. race is probably the most significant factorin the choice to breastfeed. asians are breastfeeding at 86%, hispanics or latinos at 81%, whitesat 78%, american-indian or alaskan natives at 74%, native hawaiians and others 73% andblack or african-americans at 60%. boy, if you want to help give your kids a leg up inlife, it would be great if we could get all those numbers into the asian level. women who receive government assistance areless likely to breastfeed than those who do not. what can i say? those who receive wicare 68% eligible but not receiving 78%, not

receiving 85%. the reasons for that, i mean,we could speculate but those were the facts. women who are 20 years old or younger are19% less likely to breastfeed than women who are 30 years of age and older. one of thethings that is true is when you're young, you think you know everything, right? i thinkit was mark twain who had this old saying about, "i left home when i was 17 and i cameback three years later, i was amazed at how much my old man had learned in three yearsthat i had been away." when you're young you think you know a lot and when you're olderyou realize like socrates did that you're pretty ignorant about most things and so yougo and find things out. this is what parenting should always be about.we have greater cell phones, and our computers

and our cars, we should continually striveto upgrade our parenting particularly from how we were parented. i mean we wouldn't acceptour parents' old computer and try and use one of those massive brick light point atthe satellites cell phones from 1982. we constantly need to look at the science to upgrade ourparenting self for the younger people. don't assume that you know. always got to look itup. married women are 21% more likely to breastfeedthan unmarried women. yet another example of how marriage is beneficial to children. education seems to play a big role as well.so if you are not a high school graduate, you're at 67%. if you are a high school graduate,you are 67%. if you have some college, you

are at 77% of breastfeeding. college graduate,88% and so on. new moms living in the city outskirts and suburbs come in at three percentabove the national percentage while those living in rural areas are 11% below the nationalpercentage for breastfeeding. what are the common objections to breastfeeding?some of the most common reasons for not breastfeeding are discomfort, time issues, latching difficulties,and lack of support. i don't think mentioned here is the husband wanting to get back in. it is estimated that more than 95% of womenare physically capable of breastfeeding since infant genetic abnormalities and physicalabnormalities in the mother occur only in one to four percent of cases. the three mostcommon reasons for not continuing nursing

are, "my baby had difficulty nursing," says31% of women. "it was too hard to get breastfeeding going," 23% of women. "formula was more convenience,"23% of women and there is some lack of support from everyone around the mothers includingdoctors, partners, family and friends. of course, if you had a mother who formulafed like most of these mistakes tend to photocopy and you may feel not too comfortable sayingto your mother, "well, the formula feeding was bad so i'm going to breastfeed," and themother says, "oh, the formula is fine. that's what i did. there's something wrong with it,"and so can be a bit conflict-y but the star we guide our parenting by is the scientificbenefit and best practices for the mental, physical and emotional health of our children.previous generations are upsets. frankly be

damned, you just do what is best for yourkid. the science and knowledge has advanced. it is difficult. my wife had significant difficulties.she with my encouragement just power through and it worked out fine. many breastfeeding advocates suggest thatlack of support is the greatest contributor to women not initiating or continuing breastfeeding.and what do i know? i'm not an expert in this but i think it's also the woman's choice.it's also the amount of knowledge you get and the amount of commitment that you haveto the best interest of your child. and so, it's not just the lack of support that's thereas well but i would also argue that willing can make that better decision.

why, what's the problem with breastfeeding?the breastfeeding rate may seem high at 77%. but if you consider that 24% of those womenstart introducing formula before the infant is two days old, then the percentage of womenwho actually initiated and breastfeed for three days or more drops to 59%. three daysafter the baby's born, we're down to 59%. it's not good. i got to grow old in a worldpopulated by these people. childbirth connection's listening to mothers iii survey for 2012 foundthat women on average appear to be aware of national breastfeeding recommendations. buta gap exists between national standards for hospital breastfeeding support and the hospitalpractices women experience after birth. the aap has two policies which provide guidanceto hospitals to implement practices that support

breastfeeding and avoid destructive ones.contrary to these guidelines, survey participants who intended to exclusively breastfeed experiencethe following: 49% were given free formula samples or offers. 47% were not told aboutbreastfeeding resources in their communities. 37% of their babies were given pacifiers bythe staff. 36% were not shown how to position the baby to limit nipple soreness. 35% ofbabies do not room in with their mothers while in the hospital. that was true here. canadahas this socialized healthcare system and we had to pay significantly extra for a privateroom where we could all sleep together. i mean, we did because that's what we wantedbut it feels a bit of a farm factory otherwise. 31% were not encouraged to breastfeed on demand.29% were given formula or watered supplement,

their mother's breast milk and 19% did notreceive -- have to stop breastfeeding when they were ready. this is all a problem. thisis definitely quite tragic. i hate to say it, ladies, but you should not be figuringout the value of breastfeeding after you've had the baby. if memory serves you have aboutnine months hopefully to prepare for this. you're probably trying to get pregnant beforehand.if you're married hopefully you've been around for a couple of years talking about this.you don't try and figure out how to drive the car while you're taking the test. youdo a bit of prep beforehand. so i think it would be great if people had more support,if women had more support. but come on, i mean you know you're going to have a babyand you know that breastfeeding is important.

that's kind of what they're for, get the guygive it to the baby. that's what they're for. so i would say that this is a shame but istill think that this is something that women can -- i don't have enough disrespect forwomen to say they cannot figure this stuff out ahead of time. as set forth in the international code ofmarketing of breast-milk substitutes, formula companies are not allowed to market directlyto consumers. instead, they enlist doctors to recommend their products and most patientstrust that the advice from their healthcare providers is given with the patient's bestinterest in mind. things like adhd meds of all kinds would lead me to have some hesitationas to trusting that everything the doctor

says has the best interest of children inmind. my particular opinion, not just my opinion, but do your research. do your research, that'sall i'm saying. formula companies often give hospitals andmedical providers free or discounted products and they use paid lunches and other incentiveprograms to encourage health workers to recommend their brands. these companies further garnerphysicians' goodwill by sponsoring scientific conference and research on infant nutrition.of course, i mean we all know this. i mean the people who want to sell you stuff, wantto sell you stuff and they're not going to particularly talk about the downside of theirproducts. every consumer knows this, from about the first time you ordered something,sea monkeys over the internet and get a bunch

of algaes. we all know this, that people whotry and sell us stuff have conflict of interest. they want to make money. they're not goingto talk about the downside. you don't see a bunch of people but no teeth. they're chortlingabout how great coca-cola is. we all know this and so do your research. do your research.do your research. a study published in the general pediatricsof 2010 showed that 78% of us hospitals routinely give formula to healthy breastfeeding infants.well, they don't if the mom says no. many proponents of breastfeeding blame higher formulause rates on the facts that many hospitals also give new moms discharge packs containingformula samples and coupons. you don't have to use them.

a study published in obstetrics & gynecologyin february 2000 stated that, "exposure to formula promotion increases significantlybreastfeeding cessation in the first two weeks. also, among women with uncertain goals orbreastfeeding goals of 12 weeks or less, exposure to formula promotion results in exclusivefull and overall breastfeeding duration being shortened. well, with these facts, that'snot going to happen anymore. i'm so excited. since 2000, many hospitals have opted to nothandout formula samples with 28% being sample free in 2010. unfortunately, there are nomore recent large scale studies on this subject. the world health organization has outlinedten steps to successful breastfeeding. these steps are the foundation of the baby-friendlyhospital initiative and summarize the maternity

practices necessary to support breastfeeding.look, i appreciate all of this stuff. somehow, we evolve from single-cell organisms withoutclusters of people in white coats telling us to put milk in our babies' mouths. i'mglad that this stuff is all there. it seems insane that it needs to be but use it if youcan but it really seems a bit of an overcomplicated thing to baby-nipple gap. have a written breastfeeding policy that isroutinely communicated to all healthcare staff. train all healthcare staff in skills necessaryto implement this policy yet inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management ofbreastfeeding. you should know before you go in but it's great to know afterwards isuppose. help mothers initiate breastfeeding

within half an hour of birth to get that colostrum,to get that immunosuppressant milk in there. show mothers how to breastfeed and how tomaintain lactation even if they should be separated from their infants. give new borninfants no food or drink other than breast milk and lattes and less medically indicated.practice rooming in. that is allowed. mothers and infants to remain together, 24 hours aday. again, i mean it just seems strange that weneed all this stuff. i'm glad it's there but -- encourage breastfeeding on demand. of course,if baby's hungry. give no artificial teeth or pacifiers, also called dummies or soothers.oh, i thought they're talking about me, to breastfeeding infants. foster the establishmentof breastfeeding support groups and refer

mothers to them upon discharge from the hospitalor clinic. this is good. it's good reminders. you should know this stuff beforehand. a maternity facility can be designated baby-friendlywhen it does not accept free or low cost breast milk substitutes, feeding bottles or titsand has implemented the previous ten steps to support successful breastfeeding. alsonot allowed, fire breathing lizards and nunchuckus and steak knives. because the benefits of breastfeeding arebecoming more well-known, new family-friendly facilities called birthing centers have emerged.it's a good one. unlike hospitals, birthing centers are more like home environments toallow for a more relaxed pre-imposed birth

experience. rooming in or sort of stayingtogether is considered one of the key components for bonding between baby and parents. thishelps the mother and the father learn the baby's feeding cues and establish breastfeedingpatterns. co-sleeping is often encouraged for mother and babies. well, co-sleeping isgreat. i mean if baby's hungry, you just turn and doze and the baby can feed. it's fantastic. midwives and lactation consultants are usuallyonsite to answer any questions. listen. don't get me wrong. i mean, i'm not saying, it'sas easy as falling off a log. breastfeeding can be complicated, can be difficult, canbe painful. so take the support that you need. you should have the knowledge before you goin. there's knowledge there if you don't.

take the support that you need. it can beincredibly frustrating and difficult. i had a friend. his wife is breastfeeding and shewas trying for like four or five hours. she just be in hysterics at the end and tears.it's such an emotional challenge. if you're a husband, support, support, support. if youknow, if you're a friend, you just support like crazy. if there are challenges in breastfeeding,it can turn you as a woman inside out. i don't mean to sort of be glib about it like it'salways easy and sometimes it's really, really difficult but it's so essential to stick throughit. an increasing number of births are takingplace in baby-friendly facilities but they represent now just sort of seven percent ofall us births. these are the facts. these

are the facts. we go to science to find outwhat is best for our children and what is best for our children so often is how we developas a species. breastfeeding was developed for a reason because the lactation powdertrees were often over the other side of the mountain. we go back to baby contact is essential. staywith your baby. sleep with your baby. be with your baby. they were inside you for nine months.crush them up against you for nine months more, 18 months more. i think we went to 18months for breastfeeding. but do all of that. that stuff -- it's really, really important.go to the science. don't go to history. don't go to the doctor necessarily. obviously, formedical advice absolutely but when it comes

to things like formula, unless there's a medicalreason, just go to the facts. this is what's best for your baby. this iswhat is best for your baby's development, emotional development. you want the empathy.you want those language skills. you want those cognitive skills and emotional skills to beas high as possible. it's going to make your job as a parent so much better. it is so muchfun to be a dad when you have given that kind of support to your kid. i've been there toput her to bed almost every single night of her life. i'm here every day. it just makesall the difference in the world in terms of how much fun, how much connection you couldhave as a parent. we did this video. this is the last point.sorry for lecturing. we did this video, the

truth about circumcision. i got a tons ofemails from moms who are like, "it reduces the risk of penile cancer." not true but obviouslythis is something they read. "oh, it reduces the risk of stds." not true. "it reduces therisk of hiv." not true. but this is they believed that you had to gauze the foreskin off thebaby's penis and slice half of the skin off the penis for really dubious way in the futureand contentious possible health benefits. so that's what they were willing to do forthe boy for really sketchy maybe health benefits that aren't actually even true. if this is true, if the moms are like, "well,this is what you're going to do," and the dads are, this is what i want you to do forthe health of the baby: (a) don't circumcise;

(b) this is really clear stuff. this is goingto be plus iq points probably. this is along without spanking is going to probably giveyou five to ten points extra iq. that is a huge difference. that's a difference betweendoing a ba and getting halfway through a phd for god's sakes. that's really important.this is about the best thing that you can do. take the time off. take the time off.it used to be like four years, five years. now, some psychologists are saying the firstthree years are really essential. what if you need to stay home for three years?find a way to do it. if you've got to go live in your parents' basements, if you got togo to live in a small one bedroom apartment. i mean, you made those sacrifices to go throughschool. didn't you ride four years to go through

school. this is three years your kid is goingto be and your life for 50 years. three years at the beginning to make the rest of those47 years so much better is an investment that no sane person could ever turn down. so finda way to make it happen and breastfeed if at all humanly possible. this is stefan molyneux from freedomain radio.thank you so much.