From the monthly archives:

November 2009

WHO updates recommendations for breastfeeding with HIV

November 30, 2009

Reuters is reporting that the WHO recommendations for breastfeeding while HIV+ have changed and the changes seem to be fairly significant. (read full article) I have several friends living and working in areas where the HIV infection rates are staggering and so I wanted to point to this information as quickly as possible since I [...]

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Seasame Street and Breastfeeding

November 30, 2009

This post is purely for fun (and so I’ll have a quick and easy place to point friends to). There are a bunch of YouTube videos of clips from Sesame Street that discuss breastfeeding. They are neat little bits of advocacy aimed at kids. Hey! Some of these are also instructive for those who motor [...]

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NPR & Tell Me More tackle breastfeeding rates in the black community

November 25, 2009

On November 24th, 2009 guest host Jennifer Ludden at NPR’s Tell Me More hosted an interesting segment on breastfeeding rates among black women. She discusses the issue with author Kathi Barber*, journalist Jamila Bey, and television producer Dawn Porter. (transcript here) I embedded the clip at the bottom of the page. This was a really [...]

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The Kids

November 25, 2009

I have kids. Two young people tugging at my elbow when I’m trying to write pithy, witty stuff. Pithy and witty often turn into ppothy and whyutty with these jokesters in the area. They have little patience for the Important Things Mom Must Write Right Now! I’m a fairly open person. I’ll talk to you [...]

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

November 24, 2009

Hey Kathy, So I started a blog. Of course it’s about breastfeeding! I wanted to find another outlet for some of these lactivist tendencies of mine. You’ve trained me well and I’m keeping my more ostreperous opinions out of the support communities – as it should be. I was going through some of the old [...]

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Things We Can Do

November 24, 2009

Here I washed my hands of trying to engage in direct dialog with Nestlé. Don’t get me wrong – I believe that those dialogs can be instructive and eye-opening to people unfamiliar with the issues surrounding Nestlé’s behavior and of the level of disingenuousness evidenced by our Swiss friends. The conversations serve a very important [...]

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How should Nestlé use social media?

November 24, 2009

Annie at PhD in Parenting has been taking the time to ask Nestlé some seriously important questions and then (more importantly in my opinion) construct well-researched, thought provoking responses that push back on what Nestlé has put out there. One of the final questions tackled is the following – Moving forward, what steps do you [...]

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Facebook Hypocrisy – Reflections of a Culture

November 12, 2009

A lot has been said about Facebook’s hypocrisy regarding the way they treat breastfeeding images and other images of partially or fully exposed breasts. You’d have to be living under a rock to not know about this if you are a part of the online breastfeeding community. That topic has been really well covered by [...]

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Breastfeeding ≠ Not Safe For Work (no NSFW around here)

November 10, 2009

NSFW = Not Safe(Suitable) For Work (contains graphic or adult imagery which might be offensive to employers or co-workers.) So I was thinking about the NSFW designation and how it should be used/not used on the blog. Breastfeeding pictures can show a fair amount of skin and even when they don’t the controversy still roils [...]

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Why am I writing this blog?

November 10, 2009

This blog came into existence to allow me an outlet for some of the conversations I felt a great need to have that were not and are not appropriate in the context of a breastfeeding support group helping breastfeeding moms. *sounds of record player needle scratching along the top of an old 45* Conversation smonversation! [...]

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