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Formula Feeding as a 'Choice'
I would like to share with you, a rant I found on Mumsnet today. It was titled, "Women are Stupid":"Elsewhere, there is a complaint about being unsupported when breastfeeding. This is a feminist issue...
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Timeline of Breast Changes in Pregnancy
Whether or not you plan to breastfeed, your breasts will prepare themselves for nourishing your baby. The female breast, also referred to as the mammary gland, takes its name from the Latin word for...
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Anti-Breastfeeding Books: Part Two
Welcome to what is regrettably another instalment to the literary anti-breastfeeding saga (get acquainted with the first part by clicking here). The books I am about expose are aimed at first time...
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Boobie Trap Bingo
Pull up a chair and play a game of Boobie Trap Bingo with me! Which of the following have you overcome?Why not open the bingo card in paint, and then circle the boobie traps you have overcome. Now you...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding Triplets!
What's triumphant about Tuesdays, you may be pondering? Well, Tuesdays are now THE day of the week to celebrate success in infant feeding (Friday's are SO cliched! Yawn).It all started with a post I...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding and Homeless
It's often said that formula feeding is only unsafe in undeveloped countries where there is poverty and poor sanitation. This is a fictitious claim circulated by defensive formula feeders in an effort...
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So You’ve Given Up Breastfeeding...
I often have to sit and listen to assorted tales of woe from women who gave up breastfeeding because they had mastitis, cracked nipples, a c-section, the runs.It seems that a large proportion of...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Menacing Medical Staff
Formula-peddling. A beloved pastime of many medical staff. You see, formula enables doctors, nurses and other assorted white-coats to escape the responsibility of actually *solving* a breastfeeding...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding with Tongue-Tie
Most of us think of tongue-tie as a situation we find ourselves in when we are too excited to speak. In fact, tongue-tie is the non-medical term for a relatively common physical condition that limits a...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Commercially-Motivated Medical Staff
As I wrote in the article: '15 Tricks of Formula Companies', getting health professionals on side is a common strategy of formula companies. New mothers understandably carry the assumption that health...
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Babies Asleep in Walkers
Is there any sight cuter than a baby blissfully dozing in dreamland? YES! A baby blissfully dozing in dreamland IN A WALKER!!When I found my son doing it, I wondered whether this was a common...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding After Breast Cancer
By breastfeeding her baby, a mother is giving life. She is literally keeping her child alive through the power of her body. However, what if the mother's life is in danger? Surely being faced with a...
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How to Deal with Your Toddler’s Public Tantrums
It’s a question I get asked often. Your toddler throws a wobbler that would put a PMS sufferer to shame; and they do so – shudder - in public! This is when you wish you’d never tutted at those women...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding Despite Separation
One of the beauties of breastfeeding is that, for its optimum functioning, it requires mother and baby to be in frequent close proximity. This has the knock-on effect of strengthening the...
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The Laziness Conundrum
Defensive Formula Feeders (DFFs) often remark that they are seen as lazy because they chose to formula feed. One of the most common retorts to their laziness label is to argue the following:“How can...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding a Premature Baby
Never is breastfeeding more important than when a baby is premature. However studies have shown that the shorter the gestational period of the baby, the shorter the length of breastfeeding (Meier 2001;...
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Breastmilk Storage Bags – Modelled By Men
Conceived and executed by Monday, an ad agency based in Bangkok, Thailand, this ad campaign jumps on the male breastfeeding bandwagon ignited earlier in the year by that guy who got shunned by La Leche...
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