I received the following letter over the weekend from a woman who wished to share her story with as many people as possible. The same letter has already been posted on the Mommy News Blog, but I decided to print it here too. I also have a different slant on this. I have left out [...]
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As many of you will remember I recently did a number of product reviews for Lansinoh. In the middle of it I found out that Lansinoh is owned by Pigeon, a maker of baby products, including bottles and nipples, who has been found guilty of breaking the WHO Code. Since Lansinoh is a company that [...]
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I interrupt the regularly scheduled program (Monday Musings) to bring you an important message. In order to maintain my own integrity, as well as that of my blog, and because I believe in informed consumer choice I want to tell you a few things I learned over the weekend about Lansinoh®. A few days ago [...]
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Since 1971 August 26th has been Women’s Equality Day. Although this was a great leap in history for women, we are still faced with rampant sexism today. Women are discriminated against for many reasons. In North America and Britain and throughout many other parts of the developed world, breastfeeding can be one of them. It [...]
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I have read some amazing, well-written, interesting, thought-provoking and inspiring breastfeeding-related posts this week. They have been such a pleasure to read I wanted to share my top favorites with you. Do toddlers still need to be given formula milk (a.k.a.Breastmilk v. Formula? by Jenny at Chronicles of a Nursing Mom. Jenny discusses the advertising [...]
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A few months ago there was a piece in our local paper about how the Canadian Human Rights Commission (HRC) shouldn’t be used to protect the rights of breastfeeding moms to nurse in public. The slightly right-of-center male youth who writes a political opinion piece each week was specifically referring to two women (Manuela Valle [...]
I received this in an email today from a local Lactation Consultant I know. I thought blogging about it might be the best way that I personally can get the word out. Oh, and thank you American and British and other worldly friends for your support, but this petition is only for Canadian citizens. Sign [...]
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