Posts about Breastfeeding
Topics include:
Breastfeeding & Culture
Women's stories & experiences
Nursing in public
Breastfeeding Advice & Support
Breastfeeding Research
Breastfeeding Books & DVDs
Pumping, cross nursing, wet nursing, & milk donation:
Weaning
Breastfeeding & Culture
Adbusters' Brand Baby (1.14.2012)
SRSLY? (11.11.2011)
A lust for lactation and other titillating tidbits (2.3.2011)
Worst of YouTube comments (9.9.2010) French breastfeeding blog (6.20.2010)
Your baby the tyrant (5.5.2010)
One day of google reader (4.6.2010)
Food for thought (11.4.2009)
Jennifer Block responds to Hannah Rosin (4.21.2009)
Hannah Rosin: "The Case Against Breastfeeding" (3.21.2009)
Breastfeeding as sexual deviancy? (2.27.2009)
Cotton Mother dolls (12.12.2008)
Old & new breastfeeding art (9.27.2007)
The politics of breastfeeding (9.25.2007)
Nursing mammals on Sesame Street (8.30.2007)
Bottle Feeding in developing nations (4.7.2007)
Women's stories & experiences
Pregnant pumpkin gives births, nurses baby (10.31.2011)
Musical breasts (12.4.2009)
Tandem nursing (8.9.2009)
"My whole heart is in that incubator" (5.28.2009)
What are you doing? (5.1.2007)
My brother rocks (2.22.2009)
Hmmmm (4.20.2007)
Breastfeeding Carnival: What I Didn't Expect When I Was Breastfeeding (4.18.2007)
Nursing acrobatics (1.31.2007)
Movie of Zari latching on (12.21.2006)
Zari's first day (movies) (10.31.2006)
Nursing in public:
Life imitating art imitating life (1.10.2012)
You're doing it wrong: nursing cover edition (12.5.2011): funny captions on a nursing cover ad
The problem with nursing covers (11.22.2011): an analysis of how nursing covers function within our culture
Breastfeeding at the Museum of Motherhood, NYC (9.7.2011)
Random man talks boobs (4.30.2011)
Breastfeeding history moment: Mormon handcart pioneers (2.13.2011): A 1900 painting by Danish artist CCA Christensen shows a woman nursing a toddler openly among the Mormon Handcart company
Nursing in public around the world (9.10.2010)
Breastfeeding History Moment: LDS Sacrament Meeting, 1871 and high-resolution images (8.21.2010)
Nursing in public and formula advertising in France (5.17.2010)
Breastfeeding in church (12.2.2009)
Russia supports breastfeeding (8.19.2009)
Breastfeeding and eye contact (4.20.2009)
Breastfeeding News & Humor (1.27.2009)
(Anti) public breastfeeding thesaurus (1.16.2009)
Public breastfeeding: why more is better (2.7.2009)
When nursing in public was normal (9.22.2007)
Fun in Arizona (9.9.2007)
Nurse-in at Applebees (9.4.2007)
Someone's got a bee in his bonnet (5.10.2007)
Oh boy (3.11.2007)
Thoughts on "Shame" (1.7.2007)
Shame (12.26.2006)
Nurse Here Now (12.18.2006)
Get your pens out (12.23.2006)
Breastfeeding Advice & Support
Lamaze Conference, Fort Worth, TX (9.21.2011): Summary of several conference presentations addressing breastfeeding and postpartum baby care
Breastfeeding 101: Latching on a Newborn (2.12.2011): a short video of me latching on a 10-day-old baby. Includes narration about assymetrical latch, recognizing hunger signs, and how to see the suck-pause-swallow.
Implementing skin-to-skin in a hospital (2.10.2011): A L&D nurse talks about her hospital implemented S2S in a hospital, including after c-sections. Includes pictures of S2S in the operating room.
Posterior Tongue-Tie (1.4.2011)
More on tongue-tie (1.4.2011)
A proactive approach to breastfeeding (12.23.2010): A look at individual choices, institutional policies and care providers' actions, and uncontrollable circumstances
New WIC breastfeeding package (2.7.2010)
Breastfeeding (sabotage) kit (2.5.2009)
A nursing woman is a gift to the future (12.11.2007)
November Carnival of Breastfeeding: Book Reviews (11.26.2007)
Positive role models (9.25.2007)
Breast is not best (4.13.2007)
If breastfeeding is natural... (1.18.2007)
Breastfeeding Research
SRSLY? (4.2.2007): Link to research from the Philippines that exposure to formula advertising negatively affects breastfeeding rates
Lamaze/ICEA Conference part 3 (10.5.2010): Linda Smith's presentation on the impact of birthing practices on breastfeeding
Early skin-to-skin contact after birth (12.26.2010): A new study in the Journal of Human Lactation found a dose-dependent relationship between skin-to-skin contact and exclusive breastfeedng at hospital discharge
Articles on breastmilk composition (11.14.2010)
Breastfeeding and DHA (11.10.2009)
New WHO growth charts (4.2.2007)
Breastfeeding Books & DVDs
Favorite breastfeeding DVDs under $60 (1.9.2011)
Review of DVD "Skin to skin in the first hour after birth" (1.9.2011)
"Breast is Best" instructional video (6.8.2010)
Feminist Childbirth Study's review of "Breastfeeding with Comfort and Joy" (8.11.2009)
Review of "Breastfeeding With Comfort and Joy" (2.26.2009)
Recent reading list (12.18.2008)
Permission to Mother (2.11.2008)
Review of "Mama Knows Breast" (10.23.2007)
Pumping, cross nursing, wet nursing, & milk donation:
New global breastmilk sharing network (11.10.2010)
Nursing Moses (12.9.2009)
Book Review: The Wet Nurse's Tale (11.13.2009)
Breasts in Mourning (9.5.2009): pumping after a loss
Breastfeeding news & links (3.9.2009):
Fascinating article on pumping in The New Yorker (1.14.2009)
Documentary on Wet Nursing (2.4.2008)
Mother.Culture.Art Exhibit (10.10.2007)
Holidays (1.2.2007), Pumping! (2.13.2007), and Mmmmmilk! and other pictures (3.2.2007): pumping & donating after Zari was born
Cross-nursing (3.3.2007)
Weaning:
Weaning party for Zari5.29.2010)
More milestones (1.7.2010)