breastmilk

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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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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Too much power, too little judgment in the hands of TSA

November 23, 2010




As most people probably know, the TSA has ramped up its security screening recently. There is an excellent description of the situation in my fellow Care2 blogger Robin Marty’s post Groped or Nudie Pics: TSA asks which method you prefer. It describes children being patted down as they scream and beg for it to stop. [...]

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Are we asking the wrong people to comply with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes?

September 14, 2009




The World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes was adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981 as a minimum requirement to ensure appropriate feeding of infants and young children. According to the WHO ‘s FAQs on the International Code: The protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding rank among the most [...]

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Breastfeeding on an Airplane: The Collection

September 13, 2008




As my regular readers will know, I’ve written a number of posts over the past while on nursing on airplanes. I wanted to have one easy reference point that pulls all of them together, so here is a quick menu: When breastfeeding is a safety hazard: Somewhat satirical discussion of an odd breastfeeding policy. Friendly [...]

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Codeine (found in some types of Tylenol) passed through breastmilk can be dangerous to infant

August 21, 2008




Some really disturbing news about codeine, which is found in some types of Tylenol. It has been a standard accepted pain medication for breastfeeding mothers and is routinely given in hospitals to mothers to help them deal with the pain of childbirth or a c-section. And now experts say that mothers that carry a certain [...]

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Friendly skies? Not always for breastfeeding mothers

August 16, 2008




A while ago I wrote a post called when breastfeeding is a safety hazard as a reaction to what I thought was a ridiculous clause in an airline policy. I’ve been thinking a lot more about breastfeeding on airplanes since then and enjoyed the conversation that we all had about the issue in the comments [...]

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"Got breastmilk?"…got a lawsuit…

July 31, 2008




She’s back… A few weeks ago I blogged about The Lactivist Jennifer Laycock’s silence of over a month. Well today we found out what it takes to get her back to blogging about boobs. It appears that the California Milk Processors Board is upset over a breastfeeding advocate’s t-shirts with the slogan “Got Breastmilk?”. Read [...]

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