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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 effective [...]
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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 skies? Not [...]
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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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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 more [...]
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