This morning while taking my run I was listening to “Natty Dread” by Bob Marley and it got me thinking about my stance on breastfeeding in public. Bob can have a transforming effect… Read More
In yesterday’s My Turn column on Newsweek.com, Laura Cook-Crotty wrote about her inability to breastfeed as well as her staunch perspective about feeling no mother guilt because she opted to bottle-feed her daughter.… Read More
Like it or not, as is customary with all “isms” in the world, a wide range of diverse viewpoints and highly controversial perspectives are inherently active and present in lactivism. While I author… Read More
Leah, a Chicago mom and reader, commented yesterday that she regularly runs into black moms who either breastfeed or who have breastfed in the past in her south side neighborhood. I’m glad she… Read More
Lordy, I’m finally back after my week-long Blogger-imposed hiatus. I am immensely grateful that they didn’t leave me hanging over the weekend because my blog absence was making me a bit antsy. I… Read More
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Breastfeeding news: then and now
Breastfeeding news…then. Exactly 100 years ago, here is what poor nursing mothers had to face. [Click image if you'd like to take a closer look.] Copy photograph of a sweatshop poster showing a… Read More →