The world is astonished that a Californian woman who gave birth to octuplets on January 27th plans to breastfeed all eight. I am more astonished that her body grew eight babies than I am of her breastfeeding plans. Why wouldn’t she want to provide her premature infants anything but the best? I just want to [...]
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I remember as a kid I used to tell people I was going to save the world. I’ve come down from the clouds a bit since then, but my 35th birthday came and went and I realized that I still have some lofty goals and maybe it’s about time I get on them. Up to [...]
There has been a lot of controversy about women posting photos of themselves breastfeeding their children on the social networking site Facebook. I have read a number of comments on other blogs and news sites that judge the women who have done this, assuming some pretty ignorant reasons for their actions. In order to dispell [...]
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Breastfeeding is one of the most excellent lifestyle choices that contribute to the health of our environment, yet I am sure it is overlooked for its ecological and evolutionary significance to our species by all facets of human society on a regular basis. According to Parenting Web, breastfeeding is actually the most ecological food sources [...]
Women are beautiful. Babies are beautiful. A woman breastfeeding her baby is beautiful, but as Naomi Wolf in The Beauty Myth points out, “Beauty evokes harassment…but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it “(p. 45). Ah yes, the looking glass of patriarchal society through which we see reflected general society’s feelings about [...]
