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100 Things To Do With Just A Pipe Cleaner
Did you know can educate, entertain and exercise your child using just a single pipe cleaner? Oh yes you can! A pipe cleaner is the perfect toy for children of all ages! Don't believe me? Here's 100...
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Why Some Lactation Consultants Fail Breastfeeding Mothers
Lactation Consultants are fairy godmothers devoted to mothers and babies, appearing out of nowhere at the crack of a broken nipple or the click of a bad latch, they sprinkling pixie dust upon mothers'...
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Anti-Breastfeeding Books - Part Six
Here’s something to rattle your cages: Another trio of anti-breastfeeding books disguised as ‘helpful parenting guides’..Positive PregnancyDenise TiranAt first, I was worried that "Positive Pregnancy"...
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Breast Intentions – The Cover Explained
Ta-da! I can finally unveil the cover of my new book. After much too-and-fro with the publisher’s design team, we have finally reached a compromise, and here it is:Now, you'd be forgiven for thinking...
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Optimum Family Size - The Facts
How many children should I have? It’s the question that plagues many of us breeders. Some never fully resolve the budding uncertainty of the “What If…” conundrum. What if I have just one more? What if...
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The Formula Feeder Doth Protest Too Much
If you’re been alive for the fast five or so years, you may have noticed something peculiar: the emergence of a new zeitgeist of contempt for breastfeeding. Even a cursory look at the lifestyle section...
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How to Get Pregnant Whilst Breastfeeding
Mother Nature is a hypocritical sod. Check this out: The raison d'etre of your existence is reproduction. So why then, does good ol’ Mother Nature muzzle our fertility while we’re lactating? And is...
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The Skinny on Mommy Guilt
Everyone loves Roosevelt's motivational mantra: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. It adorns fridge magnets and keychains the world over. But it seems, there is one group of...
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Overcoming Mommy Guilt
In last week's post (get your butt over here y'all), I explained the self-serving mechanisms involved in mommy guilt: the ways in which guilt forms an addictive cycle. In this post I'm going to explain...
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Why Formula Feeders Visit Breastfeeding Websites
I am often asked: Why do formula feeders frequent breastfeeding sites? Why do they trawl through breastfeeding-related discussions only to declare that the process made them feel guilty? Why would a...
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Triumphant Tuesday - Breastfeeding With Hypothyroidism and Postpartum Depression
Experts now consider thyroid hormone one of the major ‘players’ in depression. Unfortunately, problems with the thyroid, which are more common in women, often go undiagnosed. Then, when a woman reaches...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding Through Breast Milk Jaundice
Journalist and best-selling author, Florence Williams, was prepared for the blood and pain of childbirth. She was less prepared however, for the blood and pain of breastfeeding. Here, she shares her...
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The 21 Hardest Hitting Advertisements Featuring Children
In our increasingly desensitized society, advertisers have to push mainstream boundaries in order to achieve an impact; And whose buttons are better to push than parents? We’re plentiful, we spend lots...
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The Insignificance of Babies
Babies are the largest group of victims on the planet. Don't believe me? Infants aged under one year are more at risk of being killed at the hands of another person than any other age group (Source:...
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The Greatest Breastfeeding Gig In Europe!
Question: What do the following people have to with breastfeeding?Rihanna, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Elton John, Tom Jones, Pavarotti, Katy Perry, Whitney Houston, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Diana Ross,...
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Sleep Training and Learned Helplessness
Around the world, some parents are high-fiving baby sleep 'trainers' for giving them some much-needed shut-eye. Typical newspaper headlines include:‘Sleep trainer cured my baby's insomnia - and saved...
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All Breasts Can Breastfeed
Stories of breastfeeding failure are demoralizing on a viral scale. One of the most common excuses mothers give for quitting breastfeeding is the assertion that their breasts malfunctioned. This gives...
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How Breastfeeding Changes Your Brain
‘Motherhood changes you forever’ - the cliché your own mother forewarned you. And she was right. Motherhood, and specifically breastfeeding - the most central physiological act of mothering during...
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First Facebook, Now Apple – Sexualizing Breastfeeding
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg hoist his white boxers onto a pole and waved them in defeat. He, and his fratboy team at Facebook HQ, finally conceded that breastfeeding wasn’t sexual. Good. Glad...
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“ONE BOTTLE WON’T HURT” - How Mothers Lose Their Moral Compass
We’ve all heard the mantra “one bottle won’t hurt”. It’s the mating call of the disengaged health professional or well-meaning but ultimately misinformed relative. A study published last year even...
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Is Formula Feeding Worse Than Smoking?
When you read the title you probably thought, ‘But formula is nothing like smoking, jeeeeez!’ On the contrary, there are numerous parallels. In this post I’m going to set out, not only why formula...
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Is your state the best or the worst for breastfeeding? Find out.
Did you know that your geographical location can contribute to your likelihood of breastfeeding success? Okay, well just pretend you didn't. Feign shock or something. The good folks over at The Centers...
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Parenting – It’s Not All About You
You see the world from your own perspective – of course you do. What can be harder to recognise is that not everyone else does. When you’re a child, most of the people in your world are focused on you...
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100 Things To Do With Just A Piece of Chalk
Hey, you! Read this introduction: What would you think if I said you could entertain and educate your child for months using just a piece of chalk - no other equipment necessary? You'd either say I was...
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Timeline of a Breastfed Baby
All babies reach milestones on their own developmental timeline. A multitude of factors influence the rate of each baby’s individual growth such as genetics, form of delivery, gestation at delivery,...
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