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Major water birth safety study from OSU finds no increased risk of death, major trauma CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University researchers have conducted the largest study of water births to date and found they were associated with better overall outcomes than non-water births. Water births had a lower risk of several maternal and neonatal outcomes, including postpartum hemorrhage...

The United States is exceptional.

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Postpartum depressive is real and any parent can suffer from it.

I'm A Dad Who Developed Paternal Postpartum Depression — And, Yes, It's A Real Thing "Paternal PPD isn’t on the radar of many fathers yet."

They are two healthy babies, three months old, both exclusively breastfeeding and, believe me, neither the one on the left is obese, nor the one on the right is undernourished. They are variations of normality! Most likely, when they start crawling, the one on the left will slim down a little and the one on the right will gain muscle mass.
Do not compare your child to other children.
Each of us is different.

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“Old Nasty Breast Milk”? How To Stay Motivated When Your Family Discourages Breastfeeding When I was in my late teens, I overheard an elder relative make a disparaging comment about one of my uncle’s wives and how her “old nasty breast milk” was to blame for some minor ailment my baby c…