B..B..b..b.. What begins with B? Barber, baby, bubbles and a bumblebee! ~ Dr. Suess B..B..b..b.. What begins with B? Beth breastfeeds baby Bob in bed B..b..B! ~ Melodie The following post was inspired by Adventures in [Crunchy] Parenthood’s ABC’s of the blogosphere. Only I realized most of the breastfeeding words out there start with “B” so [...]
I said in yesterday’s post, Waste Not Want Not, that today I would post a recipe using breast milk. Now to be honest I have not tried the version I am about to give you but I have tried the original version. I made them for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I didn’t end up taking [...]
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Racheal McCaig aka “Energizer Mummy” recently wrote a post called Bring on The Lactivists. She wrote it in response to comments she received regarding her tweet about Nestle sponsoring a “Perinatal & Pediatric Nutrition Conference” in Edmonton, Alberta. She says the responses to her tweet ranged from “tame to obscene” thus she cannot support lactivists [...]
Continue reading about Monday Musings: The Root Of The Mommy Breastfeeding Wars
(The following story is fictional. Should you see yourself in the Queen then kudos to you!) Once upon a time (as recent as a moment ago), there was a Queen who gave birth to a Princess. What made her a Queen was that her partner called her one, and what made their daughter a Princess [...]
Continue reading about The Princess And The Chick Pea (And The Grape And The Walnut)
Today, real wet nursing is rare. It runs a steep price tag and it is so taboo in present culture that you would be hard pressed to find a wet nurse willing to talk to the media. Unless of course you’re the woman from the video in yesterday’s post, Wet Nursing & Cross Nursing in [...]
A new study by the Boston University School of Public Health shows that even when hospitals encorage new mothers to breastfeed, those same hospitals sometimes do things that increase the chance the babies will end up drinking formula instead. See entire article here. Basically, trained maternity nurses who should have been taught “Breastfeeding 101″ at school [...]
Continue reading about Monday Musings: How Hospitals Contribute to Lower Breastfeeding Rates
Breast milk is full of a mother’s antibodies that preventively helps babies and toddlers develop immunity to illness. However, breast milk can also be used to treat illness and I think most of us tend to forget that part. Colostrum is rich in protective antibodies and gives babies a foundation of immunity to fight germs [...]
