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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding with Inverted Nipples
About 10 per cent of women have inverted nipples. Mothers often cite inverted nipples as a reason to abandon breastfeeding. However the reality is that such mothers could still breastfeed; Babies feed...
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Timeline of Challenging Early Childhood Behaviour
When it comes to challenging early childhood behaviour, every parent, whether they care to admit it, has received their fair share. From excessive crying and head-banging, to toddler tantrums,...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Wet Nursing My Niece
The act of wet nursing is as old as time itself. Yet surprisingly La Leache League are against it. They cite infection risk, miss-matched milk composition and psychological maladjustment as...
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Anti Breastfeeding Books: Part Three
It’s a sad day when you reach Part Three in a series exposing the popular preoccupation with berating breastfeeding. Yet instinct and experience tell me this won’t stop at a trilogy.If the previous...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding With Donor Milk
Milk sharing is a persistent taboo in Western society. It’s a paradox of parenting: we gladly give cows’ milk to our infants, yet get queasy at the thought of donor human milk. Why is this?Trust could...
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Feminist Children's Books: Part Three
Finding genuinely liberating children's books with a strong feminist message is like finding a snowball in hell. Such books are often lost in the flames of patriarchal sameness, where females are...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding a Baby That Won’t Latch
In general, a baby who won’t nurse, can’t nurse. As a parent, your goal is to identify why baby can’t nurse and either remedy the problem, work around the problem, and/or preserve your milk supply...
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Timeline of Parenting Products You DON’T Need
Did you know that if you follow the standard, “What I need for my baby” list for the next 21 years, then your child could cost you over $200,000 (that’s $9,500 per year, or $800 per month), even...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding with Nipple Scabs
It’s a catch-22 situation. You discover that you have been incorrectly positioning your baby, and have learned how to correct it, but now it’s too painful to nurse. Your nipples are red raw and their...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Exclusive Pumping
Exclusive pumping provides the worst of both breast and formula feeding. Like breastfeeding, it is hard work, the mother’s breasts are constantly ‘in demand’ and the weight of responsibility is...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Working and Pumping
Employment shouldn't spell curtains for nursing mothers. Not only is breastfeeding best for mother and baby, it is also in the employer's best interest. Employers who accommodate breastfeeding retain...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding with Upper Labial Tie
Inside your mouth, there is a small fold of tissue which runs between your upper lip and gum (you can feel it with your tongue). This is called the maxillary labial frenum. Most people have no...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding a Baby with Multiple Allergies
Human milk is the most natural and physiologic substance that a baby can ingest. If a baby shows allergic sensitivities related to breastfeeding, it is usually a foreign protein that has piggybacked...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding a Baby with a Gut Disorder
Severe projectile vomiting in young babies can be the sign of a gut disorder called Pyloric Stenosis. This is where the tube connecting the baby’s stomach to their gut grows rapidly thicker until it...
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Breastfeeding v formula: Should the state step in?
Whether a mother breastfeeds or formula-feeds is an intimately private decision. It's her body - her choice, and no one should apply pressure upon her choice, right? I disagree.Choice is overratedA...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Tandem Nursing
The Daily Mail suggested it was 'horrifying'. The BBC called it 'extreme'. Yet no health agency puts a formal upper limit on the age beyond which it is appropriate or desirable to breastfeed. With the...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Resisting Sabotage from Health Professionals
Whilst most health professionals believe that ‘breast is best’, very few are trained in breastfeeding or lactation; fewer still have successful breastfeeding experience of their own. So it’s hardly...
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Our Masculine Culture Harms Breastfeeding
Whilst indulging my inner bookworm at the local city library, I unwittingly stumbled upon a book written by a man called Geert Hofstede. Hofstede is an influential Dutch researcher well-known (in the...
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Triumphant Tuesday: When Pacifiers and Nipple Shields Are Friends in Disguise
Pacifiers and nipple shields have a bad rap, and rightly so. However if used sparingly, and no earlier than 4 weeks, they can act as transitory crutches, enabling mothers to breastfeed for longer. In...
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Triumphant Tuesday: How I Defeated My Meddling Inlaws
Failing at breastfeeding can often turn usually compassionate and courteous family members into bitter, green-eyed saboteurs. When a headstrong member of the group ruptures the status quo by...
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