September 2011

Up All Night: Week 3

September 29, 2011




Things are looking up a bit. I actually liked Week 3 of Up All Night. In this episode called “Working Late and Working It”, Chris is concerned that the spice is missing from their relationship since the baby arrived. I liked this episode because I do think it is a realistic issue that a lot [...]

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Toddler Hitting: 5 Strategies to Handle It

September 28, 2011




Does your child use hitting as a way to express displeasure? Do they smack other kids on the playground? Do they hit you if they don’t get what they want? This is natural and normal behaviour for children who do not always have the words or the skills to handle difficult situations. Toddlers and preschoolers [...]

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Breast Milk: Not a Scarce Commodity

September 24, 2011




The business model and profitability of infant formula companies depends primarily on two myths: The first myth is that informal milk sharing is riskier than infant formula. The second myth is that breast milk is a scarce commodity. The first myth is one I’ve tackled before in my post on the risks of informal breastmilk [...]

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Up All Night: Week 2

September 22, 2011




Last night was Week 2 of Up All Night. So far, unfortunately, for a show about parenting there is incredibly little parenting related content to go on. As many of you mentioned last week in the comments of my post on the pilot, the show seems to be more about Reagan and Chris missing their [...]

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Trials and Tribulations of Toddlers

September 21, 2011




In my reader survey, I found out how many of you have toddlers and I got tired just thinking about it. As cute as they are, I know it can be a challenging time — sleep issues, temper tantrums, zero impulse control. They certainly keep parents on their toes and probably make them question their [...]

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‘Up All Night’ Decomposed

September 18, 2011




Have you heard about the new TV show Up All Night? Although I must admit that I am a sucker for good TV comedy and drama, it isn’t usually something I feel inspired to talk about on the blog. However, when I heard about the concept for this show, I thought it might be worth [...]

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Is shame a barrier to social change?

September 15, 2011




I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations over the past few days about shame, guilt, and social change. Without going into excruciating detail, I heard a lot of people say that calls for formula marketing to be restricted makes formula feeding moms feel shamed because if formula marketing needs to be restricted, then that means [...]

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Breastfeeding…just because

September 14, 2011




Do you ever poke around on flickr? Most of the pictures I use for posts on this blog are from flickr creative commons photos. I love the beautiful imagery that people make available for public use. In particular, because I think the world needs more breastfeeding imagery, I always like to find beautiful breastfeeding pictures [...]

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Breastfeeding Advocate Asks Babble to Remove Her “Momination”

September 11, 2011




A little over a year ago, I wrote a post calling out popular parenting website Babble for trying to dupe breastfeeding moms by putting ads for a 1-800 number feeding expert line run by infant formula brand Similac on its Breastfeeding Guide and other baby related content. Despite the fact that global public health experts [...]

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Evenflo Update

September 9, 2011




A couple of days ago, I wrote a post about tweets and videos by Evenflo that were undermining mothers and depicting breastfeeding as inconvenient, embarrassing and difficult. For a while it seemed they just weren’t listening. Then, they took notice and issued a couple of apologies that fell short. At first it was a tweet [...]

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