American mothers as a whole do not breast-feed their babies as much as health experts would like, but African-American moms have the lowest rates of all — by some measures, they are half as likely to ...

New moms are inundated with information about feeding their babies. There’s breastfeeding, there’s pumping, there’s formula, there's donor milk. But there is another method that is not often discussed ...

Every new mom expects to lose some sleep after bringing a baby home, late-night feeds, endless nappy changes, the constant checking that their baby’s still breathing. But for those who deliver via ...

Portrait of unidentified woman breastfeeding a baby (1848), daguerreotype (via Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America/Flickr) In a 2012 New Yorker article, Jill Lepore described the ...