The Miami Herald | 10/10/2002 | Breastfeeding benefits you and your baby
A Q&A parenting column addresses the benefits of breastfeeding. The author, Debbie Glasser, Ph.D., is director of Family Support Services at the Family Center of Nova Southeastern University and is chairwoman of the National Parenting Education Network. The article is a solid review of the benefits of breastfeeding but could benefit from language that warns of the harm from not breastfeeding. I've forwarded her a copy of Diane Weissinger's Watch Your Language from the Journal of Human Lactation, Volume 12, Number 1, 1996.

Breast-feeding: Perseverance brings resultsA wonderfully detailed article that addresses health benefits for mother and baby and the need for support.

Breast feeding: good for working mothers, good for employers
California's Lactation Accommodation Law is profiled in this article on women who return to work and continue to breastfeed.
Breastfeeding moms tell how they do it
A companion article to the one above with details from moms on how they manage to breastfeed and work.

Thestar.com/Breastfeeding doesn't come naturally to every mom
The Toronto Star's education reporter Kristin Rushowy (krushowy@thestar.ca) writes about how hard it was for her to breastfeed her newborn and how important it is for women to get consistent support. She notes Norway's breastfeeding rates are still up at 70 per cent at one year, while most mothers in Canada have stopped nursing by then.