Category Archives: Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding harassment in our own backyard

By The Midwife | Published: September 17, 2006

CORRECTION: Nurse-in at Toys ‘R Us Times Square will occur at 11:00 am on Thurs. 9/21, and not 10:30. Breastfeeding harassment in the Big Apple, at a children’s store, no less. And how ironic that this should happen here, in NY State, where we have some of the most protective and progressive breastfeeding legislature of [...]

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Get out the breast

By The Midwife | Published: August 4, 2006

In response (backlash?) to all of the negative comments garnered by the BabyTalk magazine cover, here are two very cool pages devoted to posting as many images of breastfeeding as possible: Celebrity Babies (which sports an enormous breastfeeding gallery, and where you can post a picture of yourself—get posting!), and Wet Feet, who has assembled [...]

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Happy World Breastfeeding Week

By The Midwife | Published: August 1, 2006

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week (August 1 – 7th), here’s this month’s cover of Baby Talk Magazine, which has sadly received a lot of flak for the audacity of putting an enormous breast on the cover of a magazine, with a nursing baby to boot (gods forbid we see images of a breast being [...]

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Formula: the new big mac?

By The Midwife | Published: July 25, 2006

So, I wouldn’t exactly say that I’m back, but I’m certainly around again, which is a start (although woefully behind on all the latest news). Moving is a drag, and this move has been a very long, drawn out process. Would you believe that most of our stuff is still in boxes??? We’ve spackled and [...]

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The breastfeeding debate continues

By The Midwife | Published: June 24, 2006

We’re in the middle of moving from our blah apartment in midtown to our superfly apartment in Brooklyn (trust me, of the two locales, I’m so much more a brooklyn girl than a midtown girl), so this is going to have to be short and sweet, but the controversy sparked by the Department of Health [...]

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Breastfeed or else?

By The Midwife | Published: June 14, 2006

Have any of you seen the new ads yet that are being run on TV by the Department of Health and Human Services to promote breastfeeding? They’re a bit controversial. I was watching one of them with a co-worker this morning at work who had been unable to breastfeed her daughter, and she was quite [...]

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Ovulating while breastfeeding

By The Midwife | Published: March 6, 2006

A friend of a friend recently asked me a question that I couldn’t answer. She is in her late 30s, has a two year old daughter, and has been breastfeeding on demand for the past two years. She and her husband have been trying to have another child, but she just recently learned that she [...]

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Breastfeeding triumphant

By The Midwife | Published: February 18, 2006

I’ve been working the past two nights, and absolutely loving it, actually. I’ve been on Postpartum, and have just had a lovely crop of women to take care of. Sadly, at my hospital, most women tend to keep their babies in the nursery all night, despite my best efforts to encourage rooming-in. And sadly, breastfeeding [...]

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End to Formula’s reign?

By The Midwife | Published: January 29, 2006

This is shamelessly snatched from Birthing Bliss, but once again, it was too good to ignore. Massachusets has taken a bold step towards getting rid of the dispicable formula habit by actually banning hospitals from handing out free diaper bags full of advertisements for formula to new parents, and thereby sending the subtle message that [...]

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Colicky Babes, Part Deux

By The Midwife | Published: November 11, 2005

Don’t you just love it when birthing or breastfeeding or babies makes it to the front page of the New York Times? I do! Go check out today’s front page (well, the online front page, at least). There’s a very fun article there by Nina Bernstein about the diversity of colic remedies for new babies—as [...]

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