I've been reading about the traps, and found a few fab bloggers writing about breastfeeding. It's something near and dear to my (and Lolly's!) heart. There is nothing like feeding your child from your breast, it has been one of the great joys of parenthood for me so far. Lolly and I hope to continue our breastfeeding relationship well into the future!
Look Left of the Pleiades on Breastfeeding "discretely"
From the f-word: The F-Word - Breastfeeding: radical, feminist and good for you, Kate Joester explains how breastfeeding helped her understand ‘the personal is political’
Breastfeeding on Children's Television at PhD in Parenting.
Read more on the International Breastfeeding Symbol here (or get one for your blog/website).
Illythia Inspired is a great site, and has more than one fab breastfeeding article on it. I like the Lactophobia piece in particular here.
The Hoydens About Town are fanbloodytastic, and have several good posts on breastfeeding. I like their coverage of the Salma Hayek "OMG STILL breastfeeding" stuff here.
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Showing posts with label breastfeeding. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Must read breastfeeding article from the New Yorker
Here is a link to a recent article from Jill Lepore, "Baby Food: If breast is best, why are women bottling their milk?" Lepore provides a great analysis of the curent value of mothering and mother's milk in a capitalist environment. Really interesting. My fave bits:
"More important, the name falls something short of capacious: only female mammals lactate; males, strictly speaking, are not mammals.
"By the turn of the century, the cow’s udder, or, more often, its head, had replaced the female human breast as the icon of milk.
"Year by year, bottles became less like breasts. The familial cylindrical bottle, called the Stork Nurser, dates from 1910 and is tied to the rise of the stork myth: milk comes from the milkman; babies come from storks.
"A brief history of food: when the rich eat white bread and buy formula, the poor eat brown bread and breast-feed; then they trade places.
"Non-bathroom lactation rooms are such a paltry substitute for maternity leave, you might think that the craze for pumps—especially pressing them on poor women while giving tax breaks to big businesses—would be met with skepticism in some quarters.
"It appears no longer within the realm of the imaginable that, instead of running water and a stack of magazines, “breastfeeding-friendly” could mean making it possible for women and their babies to be together. Some lactation rooms even make a point of banning infants and toddlers, lest mothers smuggle them in for a quick nip. At the University of Minnesota, staff with keys can pump their milk at the Expression Connection, but the sign on the door warns: “This room is not intended for mothers who need a space to nurse their babies.”"
Thanks to an online friend who posted this link at a forum I belong to.
"More important, the name falls something short of capacious: only female mammals lactate; males, strictly speaking, are not mammals.
"By the turn of the century, the cow’s udder, or, more often, its head, had replaced the female human breast as the icon of milk.
"Year by year, bottles became less like breasts. The familial cylindrical bottle, called the Stork Nurser, dates from 1910 and is tied to the rise of the stork myth: milk comes from the milkman; babies come from storks.
"A brief history of food: when the rich eat white bread and buy formula, the poor eat brown bread and breast-feed; then they trade places.
"Non-bathroom lactation rooms are such a paltry substitute for maternity leave, you might think that the craze for pumps—especially pressing them on poor women while giving tax breaks to big businesses—would be met with skepticism in some quarters.
"It appears no longer within the realm of the imaginable that, instead of running water and a stack of magazines, “breastfeeding-friendly” could mean making it possible for women and their babies to be together. Some lactation rooms even make a point of banning infants and toddlers, lest mothers smuggle them in for a quick nip. At the University of Minnesota, staff with keys can pump their milk at the Expression Connection, but the sign on the door warns: “This room is not intended for mothers who need a space to nurse their babies.”"
Thanks to an online friend who posted this link at a forum I belong to.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
...on breastfeeding and foolish shirts
I've had a lot of time surfing, but not much typing, and was exploring the fabulous Joyous Birth breastfeeding threads and found a great article, you can read it here!
It explores the normalisation of language around nursing in an accessible way. Makes me even more aware of both language and social construction patterns around parenting and "choice".
On a more banal note, but still on the heaps of time surfing thang, I've been doing the Great Down Under Nappy Hunt, which is mildly addictive for those times when I just can't read anything more that's either useful or intelligent. The GDUNH satisfies those consumer urges in a vaguely PC way. Oh, and there are prizes!
Lolly is absolutely delightful, she develops so fast and is now very keen to sit up, even if her urges are thwarted by not being able to balance as well as she'd like. She enjoyed all the other babies at the great sewing day we went to yesterday. Here is her latest shirt! Buy one here if this describes your family!
I couldn't resist this one from the hilarious Torsopants, myself...
It explores the normalisation of language around nursing in an accessible way. Makes me even more aware of both language and social construction patterns around parenting and "choice".
On a more banal note, but still on the heaps of time surfing thang, I've been doing the Great Down Under Nappy Hunt, which is mildly addictive for those times when I just can't read anything more that's either useful or intelligent. The GDUNH satisfies those consumer urges in a vaguely PC way. Oh, and there are prizes!
Lolly is absolutely delightful, she develops so fast and is now very keen to sit up, even if her urges are thwarted by not being able to balance as well as she'd like. She enjoyed all the other babies at the great sewing day we went to yesterday. Here is her latest shirt! Buy one here if this describes your family!I couldn't resist this one from the hilarious Torsopants, myself...
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