Welcome Carnival of Breastfeeding readers! Breastfeeding has been a gift, not only to me and my daughters, but to my greater community. I look at it this way. Every time someone sees me breastfeeding I plant a seed. Every time I blog about breastfeeding and a new reader comes across my blog, I water the [...]
A Vancouver woman, Becca Shears, was recently kicked off Craigslist for offering breast milk to mothers unable to breastfeed. She put it on for free and someone saw it and flagged it as unethical. She tried posting it three more times and it was flagged within minutes. Now she is offering her breast milk for [...]
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It’s hard to beat the 8th edition of La Leche League’s The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. There are a number of new additions, and I love them all. Not just for the inclusion of documentation of the new research, but the apparent shift of La Leche League’s attitude towards things that have sometimes pinned them [...]
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Look at me. I’m on the ball this week participating in Sunday Surf hosted by Authentic Parenting! And I’m so excited to share my favourite reads! Food and Drink Have You Got A Waston A. Price Smile? at Food Renegade is an excellent read. The basic premise is that people who eat a traditional diet [...]
A local B.C. blogger mom, Camara, has a sick little girl named Anaya who is trying to get the attention of Fex Ex to pay for shipments of breast milk donations. To do this she is asking for as many people as possible to comment on her blog. Let breastfeeding moms unite to help this [...]
I bought these dolls to commemorate the breastfeeding relationship between me and each of my girls. I hope they will have them for a lifetime and hand them down to their daughters. To learn more: Mamamor
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My oldest daughter turned six today. No matter how much last year’s fifth birthday was a shock to my system (the same way three, two and one also were) I swear that six is the most mind boggling of all of them. Why is six so special? Well, when I came home from work today [...]
