Understanding ‘Fed is Best’: Information and Marketing (3 facts and a warning)
It’s a fine line between marketing and information. From ‘breast is best’ to ‘ fed is best’…being informed is best.
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Maternal IV Fluids and Weight Loss in Newborns
If your baby is born in a hospital, there may be a sense of urgency to weigh the baby. This is not an evidence-based practice but rather a clinical habit that may cause harm.The evidence supports an uninterrupted period of skin-to-skin contact between mother and child of at least an hour. This means the ‘standard’ …
Honey Honey
Nine Honey claims to be the leading women’s website. If this is what is leading women, I have just one thing to say: Astray! These two articles (above) caught my attention over the weekend (July 2019). The first ‘explores’ the dangers of breastmilk sharing. It does not address the commodification of women or the awesomeness …
The Parently Art of Lactation
There once was a woman called Mother, who battled to be something than ‘other’ but along came the wokes those gender fluid folks, And Mother made way for another. see also: breastfeeding promote or protect?
Why we shouldn’t promote breastfeeding
GUEST POST by Kim Lock – Breastfeeding: Promote or Protect? Kim Lock, pictured with her youngest in 2012, is the author of three novels, and is currently working on her fourth (I can’t wait! She is one of my favourite authors). She is a long time advocate of women’s rights – particularly in breastfeeding. Explore more …
What a Confusing World
I see paid articles, giving advice Thinly veiled to sell, falsely nice And I think to myself what a confusing world I see ads selling bras with near naked bods Public breastfeeding frowned, but this get the nods And I think to myself what a confusing world The politicians are ignoring our polluting way No …
Cosleeping haiku
breast milk spattered headboard baby nestled in my arms together. asleep.
The Tenacious Breastfeeder
For years I dreamt of motherhood. Everywhere I looked, there were pregnant women and mothers. I was an aunty. Being an Aunty is great. Until you want to be a Mother. My heart would wrench as I watched my beautiful nieces reach up to my sister and wrap their arms around her neck. I longed …
The Natural Age of Weaning
When I first became pregnant, I assumed I would breastfeed for at least 12 months. Most people I knew had breastfeed about that long (or less), I had been breastfeed for 14 months alongside my twin. I grew up with stories of how we would ‘drive by feed’, as my mum would be feeding one …
Never Assume Anything!
“At the hospital they told me I have to…”Why is it that I am still fielding questions beginning like this! Whether it is an intervention in the lead up to birth, during birth or post birth, questions starting with this set off alarm bells. The main problem is that we begin on the assumption that …