http://babybottleswaddle.com/
When time is just as precious as your little one.
The Baby Bottle Swaddle was borne out of a real need to feed my infant at times when
one hand was fixing dinner...
one hand was answering the phone...
one hand was cleaning...
one hand was...
...running out of hands is the norm for every mother.
The all new, revolutionary BABY BOTTLE SWADDLE* functions as that extra hand to aid parents--and yes, dad's will love it, too--when life won't stop for you to feed your little one.
What We Do
The BABY BOTTLE SWADDLE is an infant feeding accessory designed for the busy parent.
Easy to Use
One-hand Operation
Breast- or Bottle-feeding
Durable
Machine Washable
Fun
Our product is made of soft, colorful material that will delight and captivate your baby while feeding under your supervision**.
Great Conversation Piece
Impress Your Friends
Amaze Your Spouse
We offer a wide variety of decorative patterns from which to choose:
See available colors page
Custom pattern of your choice is possible provided the material is available to us through our distributor. Please email customerservice@babybottleswaddle.com for more details.
* Patent Pending (USPO 2008).
** This product is NOT intended to replace adult supervision while feeding your infant. Do NOT leave child unattended
Monday, May 25, 2009
Poster of toddler breastfeeding doll sparks criticism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5355723/Poster-of-toddler-breastfeeding-doll-sparks-criticism.html
New mothers and staff have criticised Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust for putting up the image on the children's ward at Rochdale Infirmary.
The poster shows a child of two or three breastfeeding a doll under the headline 'It's normal' and accompanied by the caption 'Children copy their mothers, teenagers do it! Celebrities do it'.
New Muslim cartoon protests in Pakistan and IranHealth chiefs insist that the poster is designed to promote breastfeeding but critics say that the picture is 'distasteful, inappropriate and crude'.
They also claimed new mums are being made to feel like 'aliens' if they are unable to breastfeed.
Deborah Winter, aged 39, noticed the poster when she was visiting her nine-week-old grandson Scott Bowker and called for the image to be immediately withdrawn.
She said: "The picture is shocking and it isn't normal. Children copy their parents but I don't think any little girls should be breastfeeding their dolls.
"It should be up to new mums to decide whether to breastfeed and I feel that they are being pressurised instead of offered support."
Councillor Jean Ashworth, who works as a healthcare assistant at the Infirmary, said the move was the latest in a string of unpopular measures to promote breastfeeding.
"The picture is highly offensive and everyone is up in arms about it," she said: "We all know breast is best, but they are going overboard and upsetting new mums who can't breastfeed for medical reasons.
"The trust seems to be more interested in chasing awards for promoting breastfeeding rather than supporting new mums to make the best decision for them."
A spokesman for the Trust said the poster was designed for National Breastfeeding Awareness Week.
Val Finigan, the Trust's infant feeding co-ordinator, said: "We have recently launched a competition for children to paint, draw or colour any animal that they think breastfeeds. This poster and the competition is part of a larger campaign to raise awareness among children .
"There are a lot of myths still out there about breastfeeding and women still come into the hospital with misunderstandings about feeding."
New mothers and staff have criticised Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust for putting up the image on the children's ward at Rochdale Infirmary.
The poster shows a child of two or three breastfeeding a doll under the headline 'It's normal' and accompanied by the caption 'Children copy their mothers, teenagers do it! Celebrities do it'.
New Muslim cartoon protests in Pakistan and IranHealth chiefs insist that the poster is designed to promote breastfeeding but critics say that the picture is 'distasteful, inappropriate and crude'.
They also claimed new mums are being made to feel like 'aliens' if they are unable to breastfeed.
Deborah Winter, aged 39, noticed the poster when she was visiting her nine-week-old grandson Scott Bowker and called for the image to be immediately withdrawn.
She said: "The picture is shocking and it isn't normal. Children copy their parents but I don't think any little girls should be breastfeeding their dolls.
"It should be up to new mums to decide whether to breastfeed and I feel that they are being pressurised instead of offered support."
Councillor Jean Ashworth, who works as a healthcare assistant at the Infirmary, said the move was the latest in a string of unpopular measures to promote breastfeeding.
"The picture is highly offensive and everyone is up in arms about it," she said: "We all know breast is best, but they are going overboard and upsetting new mums who can't breastfeed for medical reasons.
"The trust seems to be more interested in chasing awards for promoting breastfeeding rather than supporting new mums to make the best decision for them."
A spokesman for the Trust said the poster was designed for National Breastfeeding Awareness Week.
Val Finigan, the Trust's infant feeding co-ordinator, said: "We have recently launched a competition for children to paint, draw or colour any animal that they think breastfeeds. This poster and the competition is part of a larger campaign to raise awareness among children .
"There are a lot of myths still out there about breastfeeding and women still come into the hospital with misunderstandings about feeding."
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
'Feeding Up' of Babies to be Curbed
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6211496.ece
Feeding up’ of babies to be curbed
THOUSANDS of obese and overweight babies, fattened by mothers on medical advice, are to be identified by National Health Service charts.
Health experts say the growth measurements, introduced at the start of this month, should end the “severe cultural problem” of encouraging babies to put on a lot of weight too quickly.
For the first time the tables, drawn up by the World Health Organisation, are based entirely on the rate of growth of breastfed babies, which tend to put on weight more slowly than those given formula milk in their first year.
The figures used until now have been based mainly on formula-fed babies. This has meant breastfeeding mothers have been wrongly told to “feed up” their infants, putting them at risk of obesity. This problem afflicts many bottle-fed babies.
Tim Cole, professor of medical statistics at the Institute of Child Health at University College London, and one of the experts who has adapted the charts for Britain, said: “We have this severe cultural problem, which is that babies are expected to grow fast.
“What this chart is trying to do is to suggest that babies shouldn’t be growing so fast and that they shouldn’t be as big.”
Cole added: “The way breastfed babies grow will now become the norm. With the previous charts a breastfed baby could be growing perfectly normally but would appear to the health visitor not to be growing as fast as the charts recommended, so there might have been pressure to wean early [on to solid foods or formula milk].
“Thin babies will [now] not appear to be so thin and fat babies will appear to be more fat. The fat babies are likely to be formula fed, growing very fast and developing problems with obesity.”
Cole has been advised by paediatricians that some obese babies are twice average weight by their first birthday.
Rapid weight gain in the first nine months of a baby girl’s life could make her more likely to be overweight later in childhood, according to research by Bristol and Cambridge universities.
The Child Growth Foundation, which has been campaigning for the charts, says breastfed babies are, on average, 1lb lighter than those fed solely on formula milk at 12 months. Tam Fry, who chairs the foundation, said: “When babies are being overfed this will become more noticeable.”
Fewer than one in two mothers still breastfeed at six weeks and this falls to 25% at six months. Fewer than 1% of mothers follow official advice to breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of an infant’s life.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: “The new charts will not only provide more accurate data but will also help professionals and parents to identify early signs of overweight or obesity and provide support.”
Feeding up’ of babies to be curbed
THOUSANDS of obese and overweight babies, fattened by mothers on medical advice, are to be identified by National Health Service charts.
Health experts say the growth measurements, introduced at the start of this month, should end the “severe cultural problem” of encouraging babies to put on a lot of weight too quickly.
For the first time the tables, drawn up by the World Health Organisation, are based entirely on the rate of growth of breastfed babies, which tend to put on weight more slowly than those given formula milk in their first year.
The figures used until now have been based mainly on formula-fed babies. This has meant breastfeeding mothers have been wrongly told to “feed up” their infants, putting them at risk of obesity. This problem afflicts many bottle-fed babies.
Tim Cole, professor of medical statistics at the Institute of Child Health at University College London, and one of the experts who has adapted the charts for Britain, said: “We have this severe cultural problem, which is that babies are expected to grow fast.
“What this chart is trying to do is to suggest that babies shouldn’t be growing so fast and that they shouldn’t be as big.”
Cole added: “The way breastfed babies grow will now become the norm. With the previous charts a breastfed baby could be growing perfectly normally but would appear to the health visitor not to be growing as fast as the charts recommended, so there might have been pressure to wean early [on to solid foods or formula milk].
“Thin babies will [now] not appear to be so thin and fat babies will appear to be more fat. The fat babies are likely to be formula fed, growing very fast and developing problems with obesity.”
Cole has been advised by paediatricians that some obese babies are twice average weight by their first birthday.
Rapid weight gain in the first nine months of a baby girl’s life could make her more likely to be overweight later in childhood, according to research by Bristol and Cambridge universities.
The Child Growth Foundation, which has been campaigning for the charts, says breastfed babies are, on average, 1lb lighter than those fed solely on formula milk at 12 months. Tam Fry, who chairs the foundation, said: “When babies are being overfed this will become more noticeable.”
Fewer than one in two mothers still breastfeed at six weeks and this falls to 25% at six months. Fewer than 1% of mothers follow official advice to breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of an infant’s life.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: “The new charts will not only provide more accurate data but will also help professionals and parents to identify early signs of overweight or obesity and provide support.”
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
