Breast is best! Or so I was told growing up in Cape Town, South Africa. Unfortunately, “breast is best” did not come with any instructions, except seeing my younger cousins nursed as I was growing up.   Read more...

My first daughter, Nicolette, was born 8 weeks early and went directly into an incubator at the NICU. There wasn’t a choice about breastfeeding, she went straight to formula through a feeding tube. When my second daughter, Gemma, was born, breastfeeding was a whole new world. As a father, I never gave it much thought. When my wife was pregnant, she made the decision that she wanted to breastfeed, and I was like, “OK, sounds good.” Little did I know!  Read more...