Breastfeeding and thinking of others
Is breastfeeding in public a like of human decency? Are the mommy wars what parents are really battling every day?
What does it look like to breastfeed a 2 year old?
What does it look like to breastfeed beyond that 2nd year? For our family it is simple. Breastfeeding beyond societal accepted norms isn’t about anything but the simple, sweet, loving continuation of what we already have.
Normalizing breastfeeding flying the friendly skies- Delta says yes
After tweeting Delta to fix their breastfeeding policy and education of their employees I discovered I would be flying Delta myself with my nursling. Just what does breastfeeding on a plane look like? Let me show you.
Normalizing breastfeeding flying the friendly skies- Delta says no
Delta airlines tells a woman on twitter that she has to cover to feed her baby. This is why we still need to normalize breastfeeding.
The surprising barrier women encounter to getting breastfeeding help- breastfeeding advocates
by Jessica Martin-Weber Sometimes I hear stories of women who struggled with breastfeeding and never got help. They didn’t know who to call or where to go or were too…
Guest Post from Suzanne of The Fearless Formula Feeder- Mean People Suck.
But bloggers like the Alpha person are not complicated. They are simple. They are mean. And mean people suck. They suck the life out of images like this; make them fodder for a contrived mommy war. They suck the life out of breastfeeding advocacy efforts, because they perpetuate the myth of the “breastapo” by becoming a caricature of that concept. They suck the joy out of parenting, by making it a competition. They suck the intelligence and nuance out of what could be a productive debate between people who genuinely care about maternal and child health. And they suck the energy out of bloggers like Jessica and myself, who resent that we feel forced into a corner and made to confront this type of bottom-feeding behavior, when we could be focusing our collective efforts on something more productive.
