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Time for some more beautiful breastfeeding imagery. Check out this great Spanish promo spot about breastfeeding (thank you to Sarah Wildman for pointing it out to me).
If you don’t understand Spanish and want a translation of the text, go and check out the translation posted at the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog.
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The annual Global Breastfeeding Challenge is coming up again. In locations across North America and around the world, breastfeeding mothers will gather on October 3, 2009 to nurse their babies all at once.
Why?
To celebrate breastfeeding and demonstrate promotion, protection and support for breastfeeding women and their families. It’s a chance for education and peer support [...]
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When people think of breastfeeding difficulties, the things that probably come to mind are supply issues, bad latch, cracked nipples, constant feedings, and the like. Certainly, there are women who are afflicted by those difficulties and who cannot overcome them. But I believe the societal barriers to breastfeeding (propagated by the kyriarchy) have a much [...]
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Welcome Carnival of Breastfeeding Readers! Enjoy this Green Eggs and Ham parody. Moral of the story is, give nursing in public a try, it is easier than you think. You can do it, anytime, anywhere. Check the bottom of the post for links to the other Carnival of Breastfeeding submissions.
Nursing in public (a breastfeeding [...]
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Image credit: Ontario Human Rights Commission
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Morals colliding.
We are all part of a society. Everyone is different and that is a good thing. Repeat to yourself and repeat to your children, “everyone is different and that’s okay.”
I’m perplexed and saddened when I hear about people that think breastfeeding in public is gross. They will all have different definitions of what is [...]
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My friend over at Noble Savage posted this fabulous public service announcement on breastfeeding in public. Watch it! Share it! Convince your local public health agency to put one like it on the air!
Updated to say check out this great Australian one too (thanks to Rob A for point it out in the comments):
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In Ontario, more than 90% of babies are breastfed and human rights legislation protects their right to breastfeed anytime, anywhere. However, there is still a lot of work to be done in educating the public and service providers about the rights of breastfed babies and breastfeeding mothers. From the Guelph Examiner:
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