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Crybaby Café: Help for Reluctant Nursing

Crybaby Café: Help for Reluctant Nursing

More babies are starting life with nature’s perfect food. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 75 percent of American newborns are now breastfed. That’s good news; breastfeeding has amazing benefits for both mom and baby. But when a happily breastfed baby starts putting up a fight at every feeding, it brings anxiety and drama into an otherwise peaceful relationship.

Nursing resistance and nursing strikes—brief periods when a baby resists or refuses breastfeeding—are frustrating, disheartening, and stressful. Most babies will go through a phase of fussy nursing at some point, says Susan Rothenberg, M.D., Associate Director of Obstetrics at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

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Malia Jacobson is an award-winning health and parenting journalist and mom of three. Her latest book is titled "Sleep Tight, Every Night: Helping Toddlers and Preschoolers Sleep Well Without Tears, Tricks, or Tirades."

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