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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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