February 2012
62 posts
2 tags
Breastfeeding Support: It Really Does Take a... →
You’ve heard that it takes a village to raise a child …we certainly have come to believe that it also takes a village to breastfeed a child!
In the past (and still in some countries and cultures of the world) a woman would always have her mother, friends, sisters, and other female relatives to help her when it came to the sometimes surprisingly difficult task of breastfeeding her baby.
In many...
2 tags
Caring for Carter: this is wonderful. someone in... →
I went out to a restaurant for dinner and was so offended and appalled by what I was forced to witness. Someone was actualy eating ribs with their bare hands!! What about the little vegan children, how in the name of humanity can their parents explain this to them? Why couldn’t you take your…
2 tags
How many cells are in YOUR breastmilk? →
2 tags
2 tags
Breastfeeding Photos On Facebook Removed From... →
“Breastfeeding mothers are accusing Facebook of censorship again. In what’s become an ongoing quarrel, Heather Stultz and Cece Buehner, founders of a “Respect the Breast” community page about breastfeeding on Facebook, are the latest activists to call out the social network for removing photos of nursing moms. …”
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Quora: Are Facebook policies to censor pictures of... →
izythequeergirl:
Short answer: Yes, but… This is indeed a double standard that falls unfairly on the shoulders of women. The idea that a woman’s chest is by its very nature sexual and a male’s is not relies on framing the world solely from the perspective of the heterosexual male. Any straight woman or gay man can tell you that a man’s chest can indeed be very sexual: Hey girl, let’s...
2 tags
'Million Boob March' Could Change Breastfeeding... →
“I’m a little disenchanted with nurse-ins. I have to be honest here. I just fear that they aren’t serving their purpose — to gain acceptance of public breastfeeding by the general public. They end up becoming a great gathering of women who bond but the passersby who aren’t accepting of it continue to look with disgust. (Silly people, don’t they know breasts are...
2 tags
Breastfeeding support: less is not more →
“… most women hope to breastfeed. Most women are let down by a lack of practical support. …”
2 tags
2 tags
Breastfeeding: Suck It →
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Boobie Time: What Nursing in Public REALLY Looks... →
hobomama:
Exactly.
Awesome piece!
2 tags
2 tags
Breastfeeding Laws →
fullydomesticated:
Want to know what the laws in your state are regarding breastfeeding? This website is a great resource, and has current information by state and law-type. I was surprised to find out that the state I live in, Pennsylvania, has no laws supporting women’s need to pump or nurse at work.
Many women are covered under the Affordable Care Act for pumping at work, but this act...
2 tags
What the U.S. Can Learn from Indonesia About... →
… Since 2009, Indonesia has had a law promoting exclusive breastfeeding, but it was recently strengthened. Anyone who stands in the way of a mother nursing her baby for the first six months of life — an employer, for example, or a relative — is subject to a year behind bars and $11,000 in fines. What’s more, the law bars formula manufacturers from advertising to mothers of babies who have...
Breastfeeding still best bet →
2 tags
Chloe Jo Davis Breastfeeds Baby in Italian ELLE -... →
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Do We Need Breastfeeding Laws? →
parenting:
In Indonesia, unlike in the United States, breastfeeding isn’t considered simply a lifestyle or parenting choice; it’s the law. Exclusive breastfeeding has in fact been legally backed since 2009, and the laws have recently been strengthened. In a nation where clean water isn’t always available, the country hopes to have 80 percent of its babies exclusively breastfed by 2015, and to...
2 tags
Mama Tea: Social Breastfeeding - two more... →
mamateablog:
Not a week goes by and we don’t hear of another woman coming up against the social unacceptance of breastfeeding whilst trying to feed a hungry child. This week two reported incidents have come to our attention, the first in Ontario, Canada and the second in Nottingham, UK.
Initially reported in
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Mama Tea: Social Breastfeeding - Camden County... →
mamateablog:
Monday 5th March at 10am, Woodbine Courthouse, East 4th Street, Camden County, Georgia is the time and place for the nurse-in triggered by a church’s reaction to Nirvana Jenette’s social breastfeeding.
Nirvana Jenette was breastfeeding Olivia in her church when church leaders…
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Facebook Targets Breastfeeding Moms →
nudism-naturism:
Women across the globe find themselves fighting for liberation and equality once more not just in public but online in social networking sites, particularly Facebook. After nearly over a decade of struggling back and forth with Facebook regarding what is appropriate and what is offensive, Facebook finally…
2 tags
Think breastfeeding discrimination is wrong? Take... →
whenrobotsreproduce:
ABC News recently reported on Texas mom, Donnicia Venters, who was fired from her job at a debt collection agency in 2010 after requesting time to use the bathroom to pump at work. Ms. Venters sued her employer for discrimination under title VII of the Civil Rights Act, but the judge ruled against her stating, “lactation is not a pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical...
2 tags
Judge Backs Firing of Houston Breastpumping Worker...
bobomama:
Can someone PLEASE tell me why in 2012 this is STILL Happening?!
The judge ACTUALLY said “firing someone because of lactation or breast-pumping is not sex discrimination.”
Click for the Full Story
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/houston-judge-fired-breast-pumping-sex-discrimination/story?id=15533573#.TzQ-3uRnuSp
and then sign this petition!
...
2 tags
Staples Co-Founder Complains That Allowing Women...
Read more here:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/07/420595/staples-co-founder-complains-that-allowing-women-to-breastfeed-at-work-will-cost-jobs/?mobile=wp
2 tags
Local Mother Speaks Out About Breast Feeding →
A local mother is speaking out after the social networking site Facebook removed pictures of her breast feeding her child. …
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
