May 2012
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What Primates Teach Us About Weaning Age →
“My son will be three-years-old next month and is still breastfeeding. In other words, he is a typical primate. However, when I tell most people about this the reactions I receive run the gamut from mild confusion to serious discomfort. …”
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Watchkikidonahue:
Why Mamas can’t do yoga with toddlers running around
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Planet Phenomenal: U.S. Ranks Last for... →
venusgenus:
Save the Children’s report ‘State of the World’s Mothers’ says the U.S. has the least favorable environment for breastfeeding in the entire industrial world. They calculated a score for each of 36 industrialized countries based on maternity leave laws, rights to nursing break at work and other…
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Breastfeeding a 3-year-old is normal,... →
naturalmomma:
‘Though some online are calling it “perverted” and “dangerous” to nurse a 3-year-old, “It’s normal for our species. It’s not perverted; it’s not sex; it’s not women doing it for some perverse need. It’s normal like a nine-month pregnancy is normal,” says Katherine Dettwyler.’
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Dionna Ford: TIME Magazine Cover: Extended... →
hobomama:
Dionna’s insightful response at HuffPost on the subject of breastfeeding past infancy (and I’m quoted):
Nursing past infancy is part of our healthy, loving relationship. As my friend and co-founder of Natural Parents Network, Lauren of Hobo Mama wrote: “You breastfeed day by day, not a year’s leap at a time. Nursing [my son] today, at 3-years-old, is different from breastfeeding him...
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Kroger Pulling Time Magazine From Registers | Code... →
hobomama:
Apparently breastfeeding’s been normalized enough for me now that I did not see this one coming.
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Hobo Mama's Shared Items: More TIME Magazine links... →
hobomama:
Well, seeing as it’s officially Sunday, I’ve run out of time to read and comment on the rest of the articles discussing the TIME article in my Reader. Herewith I will simply paste them all and leave you to it, if you want to delve further:
Mom: Breastfeeding Kid, 3, “Not for Everybody”…
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TIME Magazine covers attachment parenting
What do you think of the cover?
http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/10/parenting/
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Breastfeeding cuts childhood obesity risk →
“Breast is best when it comes to avoiding obesity, according to a new report by the ESRI.
It found that children who are breastfed for longer, and weaned onto solids later, are far less likely to suffer with childhood obesity.
The report says that a nine-year-old child who is breastfed for six months or more has a 51% reduced likelihood of becoming obese. This is compared to a child who...
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I Don't Want to See Your Biebs in Public →
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Whoopi Goldberg Calls People Who Help Moms... →
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Breastfeeding in the Land of Genghis Khan →
“… Raising my son during those early years in a place where attitudes to breastfeeding are so dramatically different from prevailing norms in North America opened my eyes to an entirely different vision of how it all could be. Not only do Mongolians breastfeed for a long time, they do so with more enthusiasm and less inhibition than nearly anyone else I’ve met. In Mongolia, breast milk...
April 2012
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Breastfeeding Linked to Healthy Infant Gut:... →
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Letters for Ava: Breastfeeding in public →
deardovey:
I have never really been exposed to this until now. I don’t often see others breastfeeding at the mall, or on a park bench. The first few times I had to feed Avail in public I was really nervous. Not that someone would see my boob accidently, but I was afraid someone would be rude to me. I would…
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Article discussing the composition of breast milk... →
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