“Toddlers Should Not Imitate Breastfeeding”

My son and I are visiting my parents, and today we drove my brother’s cat to the vet to have a growth in his ear checked out. Along the way, the cat was howling with anger of being cooped up.
My son imitated us saying “Its ok, Tigger. It’s Ok Tigger. Okay Tigger.” and making [...]

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Nursing in Public: Bad Paralells

Nursing in public is often compared to having sex in public, urinating or defecating in public, smoking cigarettes in public, or walking around in a trench coat flashing people.
These are bad paralells. Invalid. Nonsense.
Smoking in public means that everyone around you has to breathe in your smoke. Smoke that causes asthma attacks, aggravation of allergies, [...]

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“Ban the Breast Pump”, Judith Miller & Hanna Rosin’s Mocking of Breastfeeding Moms

Judith Miller’s recent post over at “Domestic Disturbances”, a NYTIMES.COM blog, nearly made my head explode with anger. Perhaps you’ve read it? If not, head on over. It’s called “Ban the Breast Pump“
Judith Miller jumped onto Hanna Rosin’s bandwagon of attempting to make a point that could have been made much.. MUCH better had she [...]

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The Propagation of Misinformation

One of the more common threads on various breastfeeding forums is “medical reasons why we did not breastfeed”. They  make my heart hurt.
One mom had her first child at 19, and was told by nurses at the hospital that she was too young, wouldn’t make mature milk, and wasn’t “making enough”. At the hospital.  They [...]

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“Ban the Breast Pump”

Judith Warner of the New York Times blog has jumped on Hanna Rosin’s bandwagon of breastfeeding moms that feel the need to pooh-pooh studies and tell women that by opting to breastfeed they aren’t so much choosing to give their child the best start to life as they are.. Ahh.. Choosing to look ridiculous and [...]

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The Weaning Question and the 28 Month Old Nursling

My son is nearly 28 months old. Yes, I’m still breastfeeding. On demand, actually.
People have a variety of responses ranging from supportive to shocked, to dismissive, to curious.
I have a single response. I smile, I sort of laugh, and I basically just say “Oh. Yeah. We’re still nursing.” I don’t bother to try and explain [...]

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I just had to respond to this comment on my “The REAL Case Against Breastfeeding” post. Emily from “Adventures in Crunchy Parenthood” responded with this:
“But really, who cares what they’re feeding their children so long as it’s not killing them?”
That’s the problem with formula. It IS killing babies! Melamine contamination, e. sakazakii bacteria, improper preparation, [...]

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The REAL Case Against Breastfeeding

I’ve been thinking long and hard, and I have to agree with Hanna Rosin that there is a case to be made against breastfeeding.
The thing is, it’s not a scientific case. It’s not made by studies. All that studies are going to show is that formula is risky, formula is inferior, formula is a medical [...]

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Case Against Breastfeeding (Sabotage)

(Yet another issue I have with Rosin’s “Case Against Breastfeeding”)
I TRULY understand that women have a very hard time breastfeeding. I started this website to offers advice on the different problems that women have early in breastfeeding relationships, spend hours every week answering breastfeeding questions and providing support to new moms that want to breastfeed [...]

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The Case Against Breastfeeding (All Else Being Equal)

Yet another thought I had about Hanna Rosin’s “The Case Against Breastfeeding” article..
Even if infant formula were to match breastmilk in bioavailability, ability to be hypoallergenic, and even if it were as safe for consumption as breastmilk is, with no recalls no bacterial contamination and no dangerous little machinery bits, chemical contamination or any of [...]

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