Is it always bad to advertise for baby bottles? Does it always break the WHO International Code of Marketing Breast milk Substitutes? Would it be unethical of a blog to advertise for baby bottles if no imagery was used? What about if that site was a beastfeeding site and the ad was meant solely for [...]
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My toddler likes to pull on and look down my shirt from time to time. She likes to make sure her milkies are still there, I guess. This weekend, during a rare cuddle with the whole family in bed, was no exception. She took the blankets and pulled them back and pulled on my [...]
I attended the Annual Clients of out local Midwifery Group Family Picnic this weekend. It was held at the same farm I pick up my CSA share of organic veggies at each week, a gorgeous old farmstead, complete with an ancient weather-worn barn and the smell of sweet yellow, summer’s end grass. We sat in [...]
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It’s Monday of World Breastfeeding Awareness Week. Monday’s are always good days to organize your week and make goals. Now that everyone knows what I wanted to do this week and what I am doing for World Breastfeeding Awareness Week instead, I thought it should be your turn to tell me what you are doing.
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Bosom Buddies. Breast Friends. There’s a funny little cult of breastfeeding moms out there, and I have to admit I belong, only I usually choose not to use a colloquialism. It creates too weird of a visual for me. (Shaking head).
I have many breastfeeding friends. I have breastfeeding friends at home, most of whom I’ve met [...]
I just found out this weekend that a friend of mine cussed out some guy who made a negative remark to her about her breastfeeding her 3 month old. I was like, “Woo hoo! One for breastfeeding!” But really, it wasn’t. It was just a tie.
Sometimes I feel like an accepting breastfeeding culture is on [...]
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 [...]
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