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Vote for Best for Babes for Shorty Awards in Non-Profit Category

January 6, 2010




Are you on twitter? If so, please consider voting for Best for Babes in the Nonprofit Leaders category for the Shorty Awards to recognize all the great work that Bettina does on twitter trying to spread a positive message about breastfeeding and battling all of the booby traps that trip women up. All you have [...]

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Nestle-Free Week: October 26 to November 1

October 25, 2009




As I continue to work on my responses to Nestle's answers to my questions that came out of the Nestle Family blogger event, I thought I'd put in a quick reminder that this week (October 26 to November 1) is Nestle-Free Week. Even if you do not or feel you can not fully support the [...]

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Nestle Answers: Shifting Blame for Infant Deaths

October 22, 2009




This is one of a series of posts that features Nestle’s answers to my questions that came out of the Nestle Family event. To access the other questions and answers, go to follow-up questions for Nestle and click on the questions you are interested in. Answers will be posted as they are received and analyzed. [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Is there a breastfeeding article amongst those Enfamil ads?

October 7, 2009




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Nada como mamá, nada como mamar (Nothing like mom, nothing like breastfeeding)

October 5, 2009




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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An open letter to the attendees of the Nestle Family blogger event

September 29, 2009




Dear bloggers, I learned about the Nestle Family blogger event with dismay when a friend e-mailed me about it. I was happy to hear that she had declined their invitation and hoped that many of the other mommy bloggers that I hold in high regard would follow suit. When I later saw the list of [...]

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Breastfeeding Challenge 2009: Will I see you there?

September 16, 2009




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 [...]

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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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Societal Barriers to Breastfeeding

September 10, 2009




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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More censored breastfeeding: Baby Half Off screws up

August 27, 2009




A reader alerted me that a baby shopping website, Baby Half Off, is censoring an image on the Earth Mama Angel Baby CDs that they are selling. This is image as it appears on their site (I took a screen capture of the page in case they change it, which I hope they will): The [...]

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