Breastfeeding

Why bovine breastfeeding comparisons leave me cold

June 21, 2010

Breastfeeding Mom = Cow It’s pretty difficult for me to find the compliment when a breastfeeding mom is compared to an animal that is mostly invoked to tell people they are stupid, fat, slow, smelly, ugly or lazy. Sure, everyone loves some milk, a little cheese, that great ice cream or their frappuccino-cappuccino-lattes but the [...]

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Mothers to BHG Author – Thou Shalt Not Tell Us You Hate Our Kids

May 24, 2010

Catching you up to speed I suspect Heather W. over at Better Homes and Garden (bhg.com) is going to have an interesting day today. She may be hailed as having touched a nerve and gotten a monster comments thread going or she may be doing damage control. You see, she wrote a little piece called [...]

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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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NIP Nukers Raise My Blood Pressure

December 9, 2009

A couple of days ago I watched the tail-end of a Twitter dust-up between a young man and some lactivists that I follow regarding breastfeeding in public (hereafter known as NIP). The tweets got so tense I responded viscerally just from watching the exchange (you know those tight-in-the-chest, tingly arm, itchy finger, head-in-a-vice-ready-to-explode, Oh-no-you-didn’t-just-say!! feelings).  [...]

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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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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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Just when you think you’ve got things figured out

July 31, 2009

you find out, once again, that  you weren’t half as smart as you’d like to think you are. *totally disgruntled look marring my lovely visage* In an attempt to hit the ground running I have been trying to think of the various topics that are fairly boiling over in this head of mine. You know, [...]

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