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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding with Large Nipples
When a mother is blessed with nipples the size of dinner plates, can this interfere with her baby's dining experience? Indeed it can. Very large nipples can make it hard for the baby to get enough of...
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The Emperor Moth’s Secret: What It Can Teach Us about Childbirth and...
I want to share with you a fascinating and empowering story of nature. You are about to discover the emperor moth’s secret...One day a biologist found the cocoon of an emperor moth and took it into his...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding After Breast Trauma
Many women’s breasts have endured a battle or two, whether as the recipient of an excited baby’s kick, manhandling by midwifes, over-enthusiastic ‘admiration’ by menfolk, or even a stubborn handbag...
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A New Gadget to Undermine Breastfeeding
A man called Pete Hunt has created a 'Breastfeeding Volume Monitor' which he is showcasing at a forthcoming design convention. The gadget is a..."new and exciting product, which measures how much milk...
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Finally, An Effective Gadget to Measure Breast Milk Supply
Many mothers the world over are concerned that their breast milk supply is inadequate. This anxiety leads to most of them abandoning breastfeeding earlier than they had planned. There is thus a large...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Relactation
Guilt, resentment, regret – all common millstones of the formula feeding mother. These emotions can be so chronic, that mothers carry them around for years, often becoming bitter and envious in the...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding with Flat Nipples
Women’s nipples come in many shapes and sizes. But can a woman ever have the 'wrong sort' of nipples for breastfeeding?Whilst it is true that babies breastfeed rather than "nipple-feed", sometimes the...
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Triumphant Tuesday Success After Breastfeeding Failure
Most women fail at breastfeeding and this failure by its very nature is contagious. Not only does a mother’s failure influence her peers, it also impacts on the future confidence of the mother herself....
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The Art of Denouncing Breastfeeding
“Whole World Deceived... Except the Very Select”.“Australia Not Down Under”.“Sun Is a Light 32 Miles Across”.“The Earth Has No Motion”.“Science Insults Your Intelligence”.“World IS Flat, and That's...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding Under Medical Surveillance
In the UK there is a postpartum surveillance culture. Throughout their offspring’s early childhood, each mother (it is invariably mothers, fathers fall under the radar) is policed by a team of health...
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Dear health professional: a plea for breastfeeding
I have enormous respect for your knowledge, training and hard-won experience, but I have zero understanding or tolerance for any fence-sitting you may still be engaging in concerning breast milk and...
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Triumphant Tuesday: curing oral aversion
A baby's refusal to breastfeed is an example of oral aversion. Distressing for mother and baby alike, La leche League describe an aversion as "a tendency to avoid a thing or situation and especially a...
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Dear governments: stop procrastinating over breastfeeding
If I were in a position to speak to the world’s governments, this is what I would say:As guarantors of the welfare of your citizens, you of course will want to move beyond reciting pious breast-is-best...
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Triumphant Tuesday: breastfeeding with just one breast
Most women notice a difference between their breasts when it comes to the flow of milk, volume of milk pumped and size. This is normal; no two sides of a person's body are exactly the same. However...
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The royal baby is here! Trot out the bottles!
Oreo is known for hijacking the issue of infant feeding for marketing purposes (remember their breastfeeding ad?) So now that Kate has dispelled the new heir to the British throne, Oreo thought they'd...
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Dear formula industry: an ultimatum
If I were given the opportunity to speak to formula industry representatives, this is what I would say...It seems to me that your choices are clear, if not particularly palatable:You could continue...
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Triumphant Tuesday: Breastfeeding despite hospital interventions
Parents and physicians alike are torn on the issue of how, and indeed if, hospital interventions have a detrimental impact upon maternal and child welfare. Medical procedures, for instance, labor...
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Analogizing breastfeeding
I like using the ordinary to approach what is commonplace for some but still unfamiliar for others. The purpose is twofold: to show how everyday analogies, images, metaphors, similes and symbols can be...
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