http://www.iparenting.com/ Latest articles from preconception to the teenage years. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/iparenting_breastfeeding/~3/aOsI-Amt4oI/2654.php Tracey Schubert will never forget the day she sat tearfully in front of her child's pediatrician. She was overwhelmed with the responsibility of parenthood, fraught with worry about every little thing, breastfeeding included, and tired of well-meaning friends and family diagnosing the baby's crying by saying, "Maybe she isn't getting enough to eat... http://www.breastfeed.com/articles/2654.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/iparenting_breastfeeding/~3/KjWXqs82Eu8/2674.php All over the world, breast milk is known as the perfect food for human babies. And while it is the hands-down natural way to feed an infant, so many women proclaim an inability to make the nursing relationship work. 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