After a long day away from home and 57 comments on yesterday’s post Has Breastfeeding Hurt Your Marriage? I arrived to find a letter in my inbox from a representative of Rabbi Shmuley’s website. It turns out they’ve been receiving a number of comments (oh, really?!) and I appear to be the source of these [...]
Continue reading about Update: Rabbi Shmuley’s Retraction and My Reaction
Today Twitter alerted me to a recently published article called Moms, Don’t Forget to Feed Your Marriages by Rabbi Shmuley. Essentially, the Rabbi says that women who are devoted to breastfeeding are committing a “cardinal sin” by not putting their husbands and thus their marriages before the needs of their children. He goes on to say [...]
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I was surprised when I heard Glenda’s story of not being supported by her Church family around her breastfeeding her infant daughter (with a nursing cover no less!), but I am usually never surprised when I hear about Facebook removing yet another breastfeeding photo or art piece. But I did come close when Kate Hansen sent [...]
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Check out this excellent 20/20 New Zealand video: Milking It, where two mothers talk about breastfeeding their three and five year olds, and two young women talk about remembering being breastfed until the age of five and seven. Watch and listen to their experiences and see for yourself if these kids are damaged or if these [...]
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This is a special post to celebrate a special person and her very special project. Monica Cravotta who writes at Attachment Mama is making her dream come true. Three and a half years ago Monica was pregnant with her first child and came up with an idea to create a CD of children’s music with [...]
Continue reading about Sweet Songs for Sweet Milk on Mother’s Day
March 3rd is the day to see breastfeeding on TV. There are two shows, both airing on Wednesday at 8:00, which unfortunately for people with both channels means you have to choose between them. One is on the Discovery Health Channel in the United States and the other is on the CBC in Canada. First [...]
What happens to Haiti when the rainy season comes? When this already impoverished country has been destroyed by an earthquake and multiple devastating aftershocks? When there is little to no shelter or sanitation? More people die. Babies and children die from preventable waterborne illnesses like diarrhea and malaria. However, Save The Children is doing their [...]
