Breast Milk Baby?
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Family on Tuesday, August 02, 2011
I first saw the news this weekend on CNN, a small piece about “Breast Milk Baby”, a toy doll designed to simulate and promote breastfeeding. It cropped up again today in an email from my sister about an article at the Chicago Tribune where “Baby” gets a little snarkier treatment.
Here’s the basic blueprint of this $89 baby doll:
“The Breast Milk Baby simulates the breast-feeding process by including... READ MORE
In Search of Support
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, April 13, 2011
A friend was recently asking me for advice on finding a good nursing bra and I realized I have the perfect place to ask: all the fine breast-feeding gurus of the Faith and Family readership.
So please answer: where do you find a good nursing bra that offers support and (here is the caveat) one that is not underwire?
Thank you for your suggestions and recommendations.
Old Navy's 'Scandalous' Shirt
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Monday, September 27, 2010
UPDATE: There are now over 50 comments. This is the point at which our comments pagination kicks in, and it gets a little hard to post “replies” to particular comments. To see the comments over 50, please click the page two (2) link at the top of the list of comments. Sorry for the confusion—I know it’s not ideal!
Let me begin by saying I am a big fan of breastfeeding. I have nursed all of my babies... READ MORE
Nursing Wear To Fit Your Needs, Style and Budget
Posted by AGroup in Reviews on Friday, August 13, 2010
Am I the only one who is less-than-satisfied with the current selection of nursing-wear fashions available? Don’t get me wrong; I do occasionally stumble upon a piece or two that are pretty cute but, all in all, the options out there leave a little something to be desired, don’t you think?
Maybe I’m crazy, not looking hard enough, or not looking in the right places, but from what I can tell most... READ MORE
School of Nursing
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, August 04, 2010
This week is World Wide Nursing Week and in honor of that I have been nursing the baby all over kingdom come.
I did not set out to make any kind of statement, but we are on vacation with a four-month-old and so I am feeding her when she’s hungry, wherever that happens to be. So far I’ve nursed Isabel: at a rest stop in the Blue Ridge Parkway; on the DC Metro; at the Smithsonian (twice); at a Wendy’s... READ MORE
Bring on the Calories!
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Thursday, July 22, 2010
Yesterday, I realized that six out of my last ten posts here have been food-related. I am a breastfeeding mother, can you tell?
Isabel is coming up on four months, and the nursing is going great. I am excited, because I haven’t made it this far with breastfeeding since baby no. 3. For a variety of reasons, I was not able to nurse boy no. 4 or no. 5 past the four-month mark which meant that I needed... READ MORE
Is Breastfeeding Creepy?
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Friday, July 02, 2010
No woman should miss reading Genevieve Kineke’s most recent column at Catholic Exchange: Racks and Ruin
In it, Kineke examines an anti-breastfeeding article by Kathryn Blundell, editor of an Australian parenting magazine. In the article, Blundell explains her aversion to breastfeeding, even calling it “creepy.”
And when you have that attitude (and I admit I made no attempt to change it), seeing your... READ MORE
‘Keeping Women Down’ With Breastfeeding
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Well, well, well.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before I read a feminist, anti-breastfeeding article like Hannah Rosin’s The Case Against Breastfeeding in this month’s Atlantic (HT: Crunchy Con).
Rosin is unconvinced by medical evidence that breastfeeding is a superior form of nutrition for human babies. And she may have a point there. Some of the studies comparing breastfeeding to formula... READ MORE
Giving Mothers Confidence
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Thursday, October 30, 2008
Remember the conversation Lisa hosted a while back about hospitals giving away free formula to new mothers?
I was reminded of it recently when Simcha brought this blog post about treating mothers as grown ups by Veronica Mitchell to my attention.
Here’s a simple rule: if the problem is a lack of knowledge, then the solution is the supply of knowledge. Explain it to them. My overwhelming objection... READ MORE
Supporting Breastfeeding
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Health on Thursday, September 25, 2008
In the last few weeks, there was a good amount of publicity given in my hometown to a choice by local hospitals that will ultimately impact upon the number of mothers who choose to breastfeed their babies in California’s Central Valley.
According to this article in The Fresno Bee, local hospitals have made the decision to eliminate the practice of gifting new moms with freebie formula samples upon... READ MORE
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