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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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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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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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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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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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Boycotting Nestlé – It should be easy right?

Cropped Nestlé-Free Zone image of bird leaving nest October 28, 2009

In my perfect world nothing would get in the way of a year-round boycott of Nestlé. It’d be simple and I wouldn’t have to compromise. At All. Ever! Even in this less-than-simple world I inhabit I figure I can still knock out a week-long boycott with one hand tied behind my back.

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