Lactivism

If you are looking to donate breastmilk – HMBANA needs donors

July 4, 2011

The Human Milk-Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) is a non-profit association of donor human milk banks that was established in 1985 to provide donor breastmilk to needy infants. Currently they are running the following notice on their site index. Milk Donors are URGENTLY NEEDED. If you have extra milk, please contact your nearest HMBANA [...]

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Just West of Crunchy exposé of Prolacta is a MUST READ

Thumbnail image for Just West of Crunchy exposé of Prolacta is a MUST READ June 23, 2011

I’m not out of my hiatus – things are actually even wilder than ever around here. HOWEVER – This article is too important not to link to. I’m going to ask a couple of questions  and then direct you to a really important article. If a business came to you and asked you to donate [...]

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A Breast With a View – NIP Around the World

July 8, 2010

Welcome to the July 2010 Carnival of Nursing in Public This post was written for inclusion in the Carnival of Nursing in Public hosted by Dionna and Paige at NursingFreedom.org. All week, July 5-9, we will be featuring articles and posts about nursing in public (“NIP”). See the bottom of this post for more information. [...]

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My Only Regret

July 6, 2010

Welcome to the July 2010 Carnival of Nursing in Public This post was written for inclusion in the Carnival of Nursing in Public hosted by Dionna and Paige at NursingFreedom.org. All week, July 5-9, we will be featuring articles and posts about nursing in public (“NIP”). See the bottom of this post for more information. [...]

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This l’il lactivist hat tickles me!

June 4, 2010

In the interest of transparency – I stumbled across this Etsy store and until I asked knitschmidt if it was OK to share her hat here she had no idea I even existed! *laughing* I have received no compensation (except permission to use the image from her Etsy store). I was puttering around in Etsy [...]

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Logical Fallacies and Justification

May 28, 2010

Things that make you go “HUH?!” Some of the comments that have been left on “They should feel guilty for not breastfeeding!” are making me wonder what is going on inside some people’s heads. I’ve refused to approve several comments and unapproved a couple more that wanted to focus not on the personal behavior I [...]

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Extended Breastfeeding Video

May 23, 2010

Hat Tip to Mother’s Utopia (MothersUtopia on Twitter) for the link to this video. It made my afternoon! TVNZ 20/20 Video on Extended Breastfeeding I love these breastfeeding mums and their attitudes! Sending major Kudos to whomever was responsible for producing and editing this segment.

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They should feel guilty for not breastfeeding!

April 28, 2010

Well, They should! If you think this, or more importantly if you’ve said this, my post is addressed to you. I suppose I ought to warn you that I’m more than a little peeved with what you are doing because no matter your thought process, no matter what your intentions are, when you say this [...]

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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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