Why I breastfed my baby on TV
Jennifer Borget, news anchor and blogger shares why she breastfed her son on TV in a news report and how she has become a breastfeeding advocate for World Breastfeeding Week.
Breastfeeding and Following Jesus- uninviting “modesty” to the breastfeeding discussion
Often modesty is thrown around as an argument for how women should or shouldn’t feed their babies in public. As a follower of Jesus, I care a lot about what God might think. The Bible has a lot to say about modesty, things like not braiding hair, keeping a woman’s head covered, wearing gold… you know, all that stuff most Christians are following religiously. Or not. But does it have much to say about breastfeeding modestly or women being “discreet?” Is there a history in the church of breastfeeding being taboo?
Instagram and the global village of breastfeeding
Instagram disabled The Leaky Boob account. Help us bring it back and read to understand why having breastfeeding images on social media is important.
Changing for the breast? A 14 year old shares her views on breasts, breastfeeding, sex appeal, and society.
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.
Fear and Breastfeeding in Las Vegas
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.
Feeding babies, breasts, planes, cameras, and discrimination
My baby and I are going on a plane this week and one writer thinks I can expect to feed my baby without someone wanting to take a picture of my breast. Are breastfeeding moms asking for leers and jeers or for people to photograph them and their feeding child when they are out in public? On a plane? Why do some consider it acceptable to treat breastfeeding mothers this way when any other group of people would call it discrimination? Is there any hope that society will finally grow up about breastfeeding?
