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Press Release: Team We’ve Got Your Back, Babe!
THE BEST FOR BABES® FOUNDATION AND BREASTFEEDING USA CHALLENGE AMERICANS TO BACK BREASTFEEDING MOTHERS Inaugural Fitness Challenge “Team We’ve Got Your Back, Babe!” Aims to support all Moms by Removing Barriers to Healthy Infant Feeding; Coincides with National Breastfeeding Month … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: “If we lived on an island where nobody else cared what we did…” How stigma hinders nursing past infancy.
In Mothering Your Nursing Toddler, author Norma Jane Bumgarner describes the reasons why mothers feel they can’t breastfeed past infancy,* even though they (and presumably their children) would like to: “What other people think bothers me too much.” “Nursing is … Continue reading
U.S. Women’s Open Golfer Danah Bordner Has Great Breastfeeding Game
Pro Golfer Danah Bordner, with her 7 month old daughter in tow, is making a major comeback this week at the U.S. Women’s Open in Sebonack, NY. Can you imagine the kind of focus and skill required to earn … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Did you experience any of these tandem nursing Booby Traps?
Nursing in pregnancy and beyond can be, in the words of Hilary Flower, author of a book on the topic, “an adventure.”* It’s also something that may draw the concern or disapproval of health care providers. This in spite of … Continue reading
Lactation Discrimination Recognized by Federal Court
In a victory for breastfeeding mothers, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously held that “firing a woman because she is lactating or expressing milk is unlawful sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights … Continue reading
The Broken Circle of Breastfeeding: Helping Our Mothers Heal
This Mother’s Day is dedicated to our mothers and grandmothers and the world of women who encircle, influence, love and guide us– whether they breastfed us or they didn’t. Our mothers are an irreplaceable soft-landing and a rich resource for us … Continue reading
Booby Traps Series: Why don’t we get better breastfeeding care from our nurses?
At a conference last year, I heard a nurse speaking about the importance of helping mothers with breastfeeding. “If you were a nurse,” she said, “and you knew for a fact that 80% of your patients were going to have … Continue reading
Science You Can Use: Moms in “First Food Deserts” are hard pressed to breastfeed
Have you heard the term “food desert?” It means an area where people have little or no access to grocery stores that offer fresh and affordable foods needed to maintain a healthy diet. The food that is for sale in … Continue reading
Is Breastfeeding a Legal Right? Civil Right? Or a Social Responsibility?
“What kind of a society raises its children on food that will shorten their lives?” I dug this quote up one day while looking for examples of other public health crises that have benefited from celebrity leadership. Turns out they were … Continue reading