“This Milk Tastes Good” is a children’s book about breastfeeding in which the child imagines that her mother’s milk tastes like all the things that she sees her mother eating. This giveaway is now closed. The winner is beth c. Congratulations! This is a joint giveaway with Lactation Narration and Natural Parents Network. You may [...]
Welcome to the Pregnancy Necessities Carnival! This post was written for inclusion in the Pregnancy Necessities Carnival hosted by Parenting God’s Children. Today, participants share what they simply cannot live without during their pregnancies or simply what to gather for their upcoming new addition. Please see the full list of links to the other carnival [...]
The latest nursing-in-public scandal involves a mother who was nursing in her gym (Pure Fitness). The gym did not want her to nurse in the child care area because they were concerned about children being exposed to breastfeeding without their parents’ specific consent. (It is interesting to note that no actual parent complaints were noted) [...]
I consider myself somewhat of an expert in breastfeeding. Granted, I’m a lay expert. I’m not an IBCLC or even any other kind of lactation consultant/counselor/educator/etc. I’m not a La Leche Leage leader either (though I am the treasurer for our group). But I have spent a lot of time breastfeeding and talking about breastfeeding [...]
The introduction to The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding specifies that “in addition to talking about breastfeeding, we’ll deliberately be using the word nursing because to us it means a connection that’s more than just the milk.” When people talk about the “benefits of breastfeeding,” they are often really talking about the benefits of breast milk [...]
A recent opinion piece has been going around the breastfeeding circles. The author, the editor of a baby magazine, states that she formula fed and she gives several reasons why which are largely based in fallacy. Then she calls breastfeeding “creepy”. Sure, she can decide to do whatever she wants with her breasts. But I [...]
