Breastfeeding

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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When a Company Goes from Good to Very, Very Bad: The Evenflo Story

September 5, 2011




A couple of years ago, I was asked to review the new Evenflo breast pump. I received the pump by mail, gave it a try, and wrote an honest review. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a lot of good things to say about the pump. I did, however, have some good things to say about the [...]

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Thanks for Throwing Fuel on the Breastfeeding/Formula Feeding Fire

August 14, 2011




“I’m going to be very blunt in the hopes that it awakens more people to the dangers of infant formula.” Those were the introductory words of a post written by Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. on Psychology Today’s Moral Landscapes blog. The post, entitled “In light of last week’s posts: Is Pushing Formula Evil?” originates from the [...]

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Powerless

July 19, 2011




You may be wondering where I’ve been and why I haven’t written anything. For a few days I was busy, for a few days the weather was glorious, and now, for the past 50 hours, I have been without power. Yes, without power. The same storm that knocked over the main stage at Ottawa’s Blues [...]

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Another ignorant bus driver…

June 28, 2011




Why does it seem like transportation is the worst industry in the world for breastfeeding mothers? I’m sure everyone has heard the stories of mothers who have been harassed on airplanes. Now, in Detroit, a bus driver tried to kick Afrykan Moon off of a bus for breastfeeding. She was breastfeeding her baby at the [...]

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Spanish government authorities removed 15 month old nursling from mother’s care due to her refusal to wean her child by force

June 9, 2011




This is a guest post by Louma from Amor Maternal. It was originally posted on her blog and has been republished here at her request/with her permission. We are all Habiba… Nine days ago, on May 31st, a Morrocan mother known as Habiba had her child taken away from her without her consent, allegedly because [...]

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Strange and Disturbing Breastfeeding News of the Week

May 18, 2011




Another week, another round of disturbing stories about breastfeeding in the news. At Bad Moms Club, I wrote about Child Protective Services being called to Mariah Carey’s hospital room because she was drinking and breastfeeding. Her partner was able to intervene and CPS left, but after learning a lot more about how easily and willingly [...]

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Can you spare some breastmilk for Anaya?

April 11, 2011




I’ve written before about the rise in informal breastmilk sharing as an alternative to formula feeding. For some parents, giving their babies human milk is a preference — i.e. they just want to give their baby what nature intended. For other parents, however, giving breast milk can be a life or death, comfort or suffering, [...]

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The smarter you are, the stupider you look

April 4, 2011




Look at this woman. What are your impressions of her? Now take a look at her again. What are your impressions now? Did anything change? The latest baffling study A recent study called Spoiled Milk: An Experimental Examination of Bias Against Mothers Who Breastfeed by Jessi L. Smith, Kristin Hawkinson, and Kelli Paull (all from [...]

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