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Science: Bottle-Fed Babies Guzzle Themselves Obese

(Sept. 30) -- Does your bottle-fed baby just love to lay down with a plastic teat firmly entrenched between her little lips? Do her cherubic cheeks swell with infant formula that gushes freely into her rotund belly? Your baby is bottle-feeding herself into a lifetime of obesity, because she's just not working hard enough...

Opinion: Pediatricians Need to Get With the Breastfeeding Program

(April 6) -- When my first daughter was born, I was a little taken aback when our very old-school pediatrician demanded to know whether I would breast- or bottle-feed her. This seemed like an intrusive question from a doctor who made it abundantly clear that I should be breastfeeding. And yet, as my newborn and I struggled...

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Pacifiers And Breastfeeding: New Study Challenges Conventional Wisdom

Hospitals across the U.S. have stopped giving pacifiers to newborns in order to encourage breastfeeding, but a new study casts doubt on the usefulness of that practice.

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