Category: News & Announcements

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 →

Research Opportunity with MSU

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Dear Readers,

As many of you have witnessed this past week, we have been inundated with (and deleted many) shaming messages to moms, from moms, and about moms on our blog and social media posts. Though some of the shaming has been intentional, much of it is unintentional, just passionate expressions of what is deeply ingrained in each of us as to what a “good” mother is and does.

We’ve heard your feedback about it, and appreciate the widespread support we’ve gotten from many of you as we’ve cleaned up our comments sections. On that note, we recently had a researcher from an outside organization reach out to us with a project on that topic that may be of interest to you all.

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Welcome to the New and Improved FedIsBest.org!

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Welcome to the new FedIsBest.org website, home of the Fed is Best Foundation.

You’ll see that we have updates for you, and we hope you’re as excited as we are. They include:

  • A full resource page that will be periodically refreshed with all the guides and data that you need to support the safe and effective feeding of newborns, aimed at our visiting parents and clinicians;
  • Our latest news, and evidence-based articles here on our blog (and some of our oldies and goodies as well)
  • And our PSAs and internet-friendly graphics ready to share with just a click of a button!

If there’s anything that you’d like to see that’s not listed on this site, of course, we’d love to hear from you. Please go to our Contact page and give us your feedback.

Thank you, and remember, #FedIsBest!