Why take and share breastfeeding photos?
Narcissistic? Desperate? Or are their positive reasons for taking and sharing breastfeeding photos?
Breastfeeding, sexism, and public opinion polls
Various media outlets like to poll their audience to see if breastfeeding in public or breastfeeding past a certain age is ok, but are these polls really doing anything? Or is it just another form of entertainment based on sexism?
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?
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.
Sleep dreams
A collection of funny photos featuring babies, toddlers, preschoolers asleep in surprising places and ways.
Why I am not passionate about breastfeeding
by Jessica Martin-Weber “How did you become so passionate about breastfeeding?” This question comes up often. For a while I would hem and haw an answer, stringing together some words…
