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Ask the CPST- of spit up, screaming babies, turning to forward facing, and tethering
Tweet This post features questions from readers for a CPST (Child Passenger Safety Technician) focusing on car seats and is made possible by the generous sponsorship of clek who have made their staff CPSTs available to The Leaky Boob community in order to answer your questions and help you keep your children safe. Dear […]
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Traumatic Birth: Resources for Healing and Protecting Breastfeeding
Tweet by Tanya Lieberman This post was made possible by the generous support of MotherLove Herbal Company. Having intrusive thoughts about your birth? Flashbacks? Feeling disconnected from your baby? Do you steer clear of hospitals, or try to avoid talking about your birth? Many women experience trauma related to childbirth, and estimates range from 18% to […]
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More Than a Pair of Tits, But Can I Be Human?
Tweet by Jessica Martin-Weber Once, a supportive male boss told me I was more than a pair of tits. Thanks, I think, so what does that make me? What about other women? Breasts are at once over celebrated and under appreciated. The bastion of physical femininity, breasts rise up before young girls as the ultimate […]
Not Your Typical 10 Tips for Surviving Traveling with Children
Tweet by Jessica Martin-Weber This post was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Mamava Lactation Stations. Traveling with children, I don’t understand how there isn’t a reality show based on this yet. There would be plenty of drama, melt-downs (and not just coming from the kids), arguments, ridiculous situations, questionable wardrobe opportunities, and […]
MiLK Conference Call for Speakers
Tweet Call for speakers MILK: An Infant Feeding Conference, 2015 Calling for submissions from clinicians, scholars, students, artists, mothers, fathers, researchers, and others familiar with infant feeding from clinical and social perspectives. Submissions of a wide variety are welcome, including research presentations, theoretical papers, academic papers, creative submissions including personal essays, social commentary, literature, […]
Introducing Boobles™- MOST Like Mom
Tweet by Jessica Martin-Weber You’ve seen it, the advertising of bottles and formula announcing how their product is somehow “like mom.” Or proclaiming that there are new developments that allows their product to be “more like the breast” while elsewhere on the packaging they say “breast is best.” It sounds amazing: new technology, new understanding, […]
Leakie to Leakie: Real Stories from Real Moms
What I Want You To Know About Why My Son Can’t Eat- FPIES
Tweet By Carrie Saum Dickson This guest post shares the feeding journey of 16 month of Echo as told by his mother. A breastfeeding, pumping, allergy story of a little boy with a bright spirit and a mom and dad with steadfast hearts and commitment. Their story is beautiful, inspiring, challenging, humbling, educational, and so very […]
Feeding Echo, Part 2- Solids, Vomit, More Pumping, Donor Milk, and FPIES
This mom made huge sacrifices to get her son breastmilk when breastfeeding didn’t work out, then allergies and FPIES.
Feeding Echo, part 1- Breastfeeding Trauma, Exclusively Pumping, and FPIES
This mom planned on breastfeeding but a stroke and severe allergies called FPIES have changed everything for her son.
Why Black Breastfeeding Week Is Important To Me
Tweet by Carmen Castillo-Barrett I am an immigrant Dominican mother, with African American roots on my father’s side. My husband is of Caribbean decent. We got pregnant with our daughter in 2006. The almost 42-week pregnancy allowed my husband and I time to explore and talk to each other about parenting. We decided we were going […]
