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Goodbye Mothering Magazine

Jake — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:23:16 +0000

I first saw Mothering magazine in the waiting room of my midwife in 1996. I didn't read parenting magazines but this one was clearly written for me. Breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, anti-circumcision, suspicious of the vaccine schedule. I didn't come to parenting with more than a desire to breastfeed and an academic understanding of attachment theory. [...]

Helping Breastfeeding Mothers in Haiti: One Women’s Experience

Jake — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:57:47 +0000

Following is a Guest Post from my friend HopeAllison Dwiggins. HopeAllyson is an IBCLC who recently traveled to Haiti with Circle of Health International. For a week she provided lactation support in a maternity clinic in Fond Parisien and the surrounding community. She taught classes to nurses and expectant mothers, as well as [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Breastfeeding in Disaster

Jake — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:00:31 +0000

I saw this painful photograph in a museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the bomb that the U.S. dropped on this woman and her children in Nagasaki, Japan. Karleen Gribble shared both this copy of the photo with me and this article about what happened to the mom and her children. Send to Facebook

Will Nebraska Finally Get A Public Breastfeeding Law? Will it Matter?

Jake — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:00:58 +0000

Only three U.S. states have no public breastfeeding law – West Virginia, Idaho and Nebraska. Unfortunately the majority of state public breastfeeding laws don't do a particularly good job of stopping harassment of women who breastfeed in public (this is where I tell you again to go read my feature in Mothering magazine called Lactation [...]

West Virginia’s Pending Breastfeeding Bills: I Have Good News and I Have Bad News

Jake — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:00:57 +0000

West Virginia is one of only three U.S. states (along with Nebraska and Idaho) that has no law whatsoever protecting breastfeeding. So I was glad to read that this month not one but two bills were introduced in the West Virginia Senate concerning breastfeeding.

Unfortunately, one of the bills could result in a law that helps [...]

Stacey Armato Responds To The TSA Post On Her Breast Milk Detention

Jake — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:00:38 +0000

Stacey Armato, the mom who was detained by the TSA when she requested that her pumped breast milk be given an "alternate" screening, agreed to an interview with me to answer some questions that might be lingering since the TSA posted its statement on her case.

Q. In any earlier interview you said you hadn't received [...]

The TSA Responds To Breast Milk Mom, Stacey Armato

Jake — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:58:15 +0000

[UPDATE: After the original publication of this blog post, the following went up on The TSA Blog: "Updated on 12/9/2010 at 8:25 P.M. to add that proper procedures were followed." Oh, really? ] Over at The TSA Blog, they have posted TSA Response to "TSA Breast Milk Screening" Video. It is quite short but has already [...]

Breastfeeding? Not in My Family.

Jake — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:47:48 +0000

The November Carnival of Breastfeeding poses a question I have thought about a lot: what is my family history of breastfeeding and how were the decisions concerning breastfeeding made in the generations of mothers before me. Check out the other posts in the November Carnival of Breastfeeding linked below.

I have no memories of my mother breastfeeding. [...]

Atheist Parenting

Jake — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:43:36 +0000

There is an interesting discussion over at PhD in Parenting in a post called Approaching Heaven, Mummies and Infinity about raising kids without religion. As happens to me a fair bit, I began to leave a comment that became so long I brought it over here and turned it into a blog post of my [...]

Curb Your Enthusiasm About the New Federal Workplace Pumping Law

Jake — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:53:59 +0000

The workplace pumping provision of the federal health care bill sounds like great news for women who pump breast milk in the workplace. Who could complain about a federal requirement that all employers give reasonable unpaid breaks to employees who need to pump for their nursing infants? On closer examination of what the law actually [...]