#MyStoryMatters
“I always feel bad sharing my story because I don’t want to make others feel bad, breastfeeding my baby was so easy for me, it was just perfect. I almost…
“I always feel bad sharing my story because I don’t want to make others feel bad, breastfeeding my baby was so easy for me, it was just perfect. I almost…
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…
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…
Breastfeeding and pregnancy reduces a woman’s risk of breast cancer but moms still need to be educated on prevention, detection, and treatment.
In some ways we have come so far in how women are treated and viewed in society but in other ways women, particularly mothers, are dismissed as their real value being only in their appeal to the opposite sex. I wonder if we’ve lost something. Then I wonder what that means for me and I’m only 14 years old.
While breastfeeding my 8 month old in one of the cafes of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas I was asked by a manager to cover. What happened next is a model for all companies that find themselves in such an unfortunate misstep. And a look at the irony that seeing a baby breastfeeding was what some people considered scandalous in Las Vegas.