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December 20th, 2012
Libby Copeland recently wrote a round-up of historical parenting books for Slate.com. I found it fascinating!
As she mentions, some of the stuff just seems weird, like slathering babies in lard. Some of the other suggestions through the years we now know to be really harmful for babies. I was particularly struck by the . . . → Read More: Bad Baby Advice Through the Ages
October 26th, 2012
Dr. Nancy Brent, MD, IBCLC, pediatric hero
Our city is so lucky to have a Breastfeeding Center where moms can go to meet with both a lactation consultant and a pediatrician (who is also an IBCLC) to discuss questions, problems, successes, goals…anything related to breastfeeding. It’s a truly wonderful medical establishment. I’ve been . . . → Read More: Pittsburgh IBCLC Named “Pediatric Hero”
October 3rd, 2012
**Spoiler Alert!**
I have a three-year-old and a five-month-old, so I’m a bit behind on my television watching. The other day, I finally got a chance to watch the series finale of Weeds and was surprised to see breastfeeding prominently featured in the show for a second time.
In season 5, Nancy Botwin had . . . → Read More: Nursing on Weeds
May 27th, 2012
I received this email yesterday from Stephanie Alford, a local mom whom I have interacted with as a client, a friend and a colleague. Receiving her note made me feel so great, that I just had to share it with you.
Judy, I’ve no time to write but I just quickly wanted to . . . → Read More: Dear Judy: Thank You For The Extended Breastfeeding Posts
April 27th, 2012
I was just watching the latest episode of Private Practice – the one where Addison gets her baby and she is back visiting the practice with her new adopted baby. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that she was giving her baby donated breast milk! While I’d love to see someone on TV . . . → Read More: Donated Breastmilk And Mainstream Media
January 19th, 2012
I just learned that Evenflo has announced it’s plans to sell it’s feeding business! it will now focus all of its sales and marketing efforts on breastpumps (via Ameda, who has always been WHO-Code Complaint), car seats, travel systems, baby carriers and more.
Evenflo use to be the only WHO-Code compliant bottle manufacturer in . . . → Read More: Evenflo To Become WHO-Compliant!
December 31st, 2011
As the year comes to a close, I thought I would take a few minutes to review my favorite blog posts of the year and to summarize breastfeeding during 2011.
2011 has been a year of celebrating successes, breastfeeding being covered by the media, breastfeeding in public and breastfeeding advocacy. We have seen censorship . . . → Read More: The Year In Review – 2011
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