Top 10 Things Breastfeeding Advocates Should STOP Saying
1. ”Everyone can breastfeed if they try hard enough.” No, everyone can’t. Yes, the percentage of women who physically can’t is very small, but until there are no more Booby Traps – cultural and...
View ArticleTop 10 Things Breastfeeding Advocates SHOULD Say
Because of the overwhelming response to my post on The Top 10 Things Breastfeeding Advocates Should Stop Saying, here’s a companion post on the Top 10 Things Breastfeeding Advocates SHOULD Say. 1. “You...
View ArticleRequisite Emo Coldplay Song About Dying Post
I don’t know why my Dad got cancer any more than you or his doctors do. Let’s just get that out of the way up front. I do know that environment and lifestyle are major, major contributors to people...
View ArticleBirth Control is HARD!
If a gin & tonic is made with no gin, is it still a gin & tonic? Let’s backtrack. So a while back, Josh and I were all, “Birth control is HARD. Let’s just not do that.” You know, all the...
View ArticleJudgey Breastfeeders: YOU Are Why Moms Choose Formula
You read that right. Sanctimonious, uptight moms with working boobs and a superiority complex are a factor in some moms (maybe a LOT of moms!) choosing formula. This isn’t one of those “breastfeeding...
View ArticleThe Problems with Medela
Make no mistake: there are companies in our own “industry” that are putting profit over the health of moms and babies. Medela is one of them. As breastfeeding advocates, it’s easy to acknowledge “big...
View ArticleMedela’s Calma Nipple: Better than Mom’s Own Breast?
Medela is a company that engages in predatory advertising and makes inferior products. They’ve got an artificial nipple/gadget out called the Calma. It’s fancy-shmancy and is designed with gadgetry to...
View ArticleSimilac: Fox in the Nurses’ Hen House
Similac (and all formula companies) need to constantly reinvent ways to market their products and find new market shares (Similac Mom, anyone?). They have to find ways to get their products into the...
View ArticleAnti-Antibiotics: The Story of an Awesome Pediatrician
We would probably be a huge pain in the ass to most mainstream pediatricians (or family doctors, or doctors in general, for that matter). We’re those annoying parents who bring the Dr. Sears...
View Article“Should I wake her up to nurse?”…Similac’s Predatory Ad Campaign
These ads are not ok. The websites that run these ads are not ok. This ad campaign from Similac is targeted at breastfeeding moms, and it’s extremely predatory. It’s fairly self-evident: The ads are...
View ArticleThe Problems with Medela
Make no mistake: there are companies in our own “industry” that are putting profit over the health of moms and babies. Medela is one of them. As breastfeeding advocates, it’s easy to acknowledge “big...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Representative Debbie Riddle of Texas
Representative Riddle, I hope you’ll take the time to read the following regarding your comments on House Bill 1706. At a time when breastfeeding infants exclusively for the first six months of life...
View ArticleThe Healthy Home Economist, Weston A. Price Foundation, and Breastfeeding.
Have you seen the shit show centered around the presentation on breastfeeding and nutrition by Sarah Pope of The Healthy Home Economist? If you haven’t, don’t waste your time. It amounts to this: she...
View ArticleUpSpring Baby’s Milkscreen Tests: Predatory Products
Here’s the gist of things: UpSpring Baby is a company that makes a handful of maternity/baby products. Two such products are the Milkscreen: Assessment test kit and the Milkscreen: Alcohol test strips....
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Prolacta responds to “Swindled: The Ugly Side of Milk Donation”
I didn’t plan on doing three different posts about Prolacta, but then it seemed that we had a bit of a mole problem on the original post. You be the judge on that. If it looks like a duck, walks like a...
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Prolacta Now Competes with Nonprofit Milk Banks
Back in 2011, I wrote several posts detailing the underhanded marketing tactics of Prolacta Bioscience. Much of what was written then is still true today. At the time, they made steadfast claims that...
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Smug Breastfeeding Advocates Strike Again!
I’m writing a post, but I considered just posting that and a picture of my actual head on my desk. Because, ::HEADDESK::! Lactivists: Don’t be assholes! Is it that hard? Really? I know, I know: one...
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On Bottle Feeding
See how happy that ambiguously-gendered caregiver and baby are?! Holding a baby in a flat, horizontal position and then bottle-feeding is like feeding them with a beer bong. The bottle doesn’t have an...
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The Basics of Having a Baby
The basics, according to me . I’m not a doctor; this is for informational purposes and is not to be taken as medical advice. I’ll share links to sources written for lay people that support these ideas....
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Conversations, confrontations, and why breastfeeding advocates fail.
A baby bottle in a casket. Keep it classy, guys. Didn’t I just go over why this kind of crap fails? If you advocate from a place of smug superiority, images like this one and the one in this post will...
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