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Fed Is Best Foundation Featured in Forbes

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Our co-founder Dr. Christie del Castillo-Hegyi was recently interviewed by Kavin Senapathy of Forbes.com about the Fed Is Best Foundation, The article is being met with an enormous amount of positive feedback, and talks about why our mission is so very important to us, and why we’re determined to spread the word.

For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Kavin, she’s a science and health writer, also known for her work with GroundedParents.com, which focuses on evidence-based medicine and health practices for parenting. We think she did a stellar job on this piece – a huge thank you to Kavin for her hard work and for helping us get the word out! Here is a short excerpt, and a link so that you can read the piece in full: Continue reading →

“Breastfeeding Mothers are Shamed in Public, while Bottle feeding Mothers are too – Clearly We Cannot Win!”

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Written by Laura Lee Palmer

The breastfeeding debate. It’s something I feel very strongly about, and for obvious reasons it has been preying on my mind an awful lot recently. So I really feel the need to say my piece.

During my pregnancy I started following a lot of the ‘mum’ pages on Facebook. I was mortified by the amount of stories I would see on a daily basis about mums who had been abused for breastfeeding in public places. Although it disgusted me, it also made me feel nervous in case a similar thing happened to me – I consider myself to be a fairly strong person but I’m not sure I could have handled the ‘breastfeed bashers’ in my post-birth hormonal state. So I bought a hooter hider (fabulous name!) to avoid such an event, and even googled breast-feeding friendly places for my days out in town. Continue reading →

“It Was a Subject that No One Touched”

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Written by Alaina Brown, and adapted from Facebook. You can see (and like!) the original post here.

I’m sharing my story, not for sympathy but to bring awareness to a topic that was never shared with me. Something I had heard of, but knew little about. Among all the advice and personal stories moms had shared with me, it was a subject no one touched. It is something I wish I would have been more educated on going into my pregnancy. Continue reading →