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• Mom Uses Breastfeeding as Weapon in Custody Battle

  The story is full of bad breastfeeding puns (that, honestly cracked me up), but an interesting case came up in the Globe and Mail this weekend. A mom has made her breastfeeding schedule so rigorous that the ex-boyfriend who fathered their child has been essentially totally cut off from spending any time with his daughter. A judge has decided enough is enough. Either wean your child or start pumping honey, because Daddy's got to have a go. Read More... Posted Apr 28 2009, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, child support, breastfeeding, breast is best, single parenting, pumping, custody, breastmilk, Jeanne Sager

• Breastfeeding Debates: Just a Tempest in a Sippy Cup?

  Here's the thing about the breast is best debate. Do we really care what another mother does with her boobs? No, really. You might say you care that she gets the best medical advice, that that precious little baby gets the best start to life. But when your kid and her kid sit side by side in kindergarten, holding hands, is it really going to matter who did what on day thirty-six of that baby's life? Sometime Babble contributor Lynn Harris turned her often irreverant sense of humor to the oh so serious topic of breastfeeding on NPR this week, and though she treats the subject with all due respect (she is, after all, a mother), she pokes her fun where it's due. The breastfeeding debate, she says, is nothing but "a tempest in a sippy cup." Read More... Posted Apr 16 2009, 10:23 AM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: health, newborn, baby, hospitals, nutrition, breastfeeding, nursing, breast is best, pumping, breastmilk, breast, Jeanne Sager

• Fired For Pumping Case Reaches Higher Court

  A woman who worked for Totes/Isotoner Corp. was fired for taking too many bathroom breaks. No, she wasn't snorting coke in there. She was pumping breast milk. After losing in court in 2008, and again on an appeal, LaNisa Allen is appealing to a higher authority -- the Ohio Supreme Court. Read More... Posted Mar 11 2009, 09:30 AM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, law, breastfeeding, work, breast pump, breast milk, Supreme Court, ohio, breast feeding, lawyers, pumping, breastmilk, court, legal, Brett Singer, pumping at work, breastpump, fired, fired for pumping at work, pump

• Going the Extra Mile for Breastmilk, Part 2: Induced Lactation

  I know an adoptive couple who, together, exclusively breastfed their adopted son from time of his placement until he was old enough for solids (and beyond). I have to admit that I find this super cool, and not just because they ended up with a son who's allergic to cow's milk and soy. It's because it makes them so happy. And because I'm a science geek and think the human body is awesome. The weirdest part about it for me is that it has put me in the amusing position of having to explain to my daughter why she gets milk from only one of her moms instead of both... Perhaps seeing it happen all the time is why the assumption that breastfeeding is out of the question for adoptive parents takes me by surprise even though I know it is (1) very rare and (2) not particularly simple to get going.   Read More... Posted Feb 11 2009, 03:00 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, breastfeeding, pumping, surrogacy, breastmilk, milk banks, mastectomy, milk donation, Axel-Lute, adoptive breastfeeding, milk supply, MilkShare, induction protocols, induced lactation

• Going the Extra Mile for Breastmilk, Part 1: MilkShare

  There are numerous situations in which it is hard or impossible for parents to give their babies breastmilk—medical or supply problems, high-order multiples, adoption. But with the increasing amount of research about the benefits of breastmilk, a small but growing number of these parents have decided to seek out ways to do it anyway. Since formal milk banks are very expensive, they don't tend to be long-term solutions. But depending on the situation, there are other ways. Read More... Posted Feb 11 2009, 02:30 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, breastfeeding, pumping, surrogacy, breastmilk, milk banks, mastectomy, milk donation, Axel-Lute, adoptive breastfeeding, milk supply, MilkShare

• Little Girl with Bowel Disease Kept Alive on Donated Breastmilk

  Two-year-old Grace Vaught of Westminster, Colorado, has what her doctors say is a very bad case of inflammatory bowel disease. According to an article in the Longmont Times-Call, beginning around a year ago the girl would vomit repeatedly each night; it was obvious there was something terribly wrong. As her symptoms grew worse, Grace began refusing to eat or drink anything, at one point going three days with no food or drink. Desperate, her mother gave her a bottle of pumped breastmilk (she was already nursing a second daughter, Grace's baby sister). When Grace was able to keep the breastmilk down, Stacey (a mother of six) attempted to pump enough to feed both girls but found her supply inadequate to the task. Read More... Posted Feb 03 2009, 03:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: breastfeeding, pumping, inflammatory bowel disease, breastmilk, milk banks, milk banking, breastmilk donation

• Is Lactation Really That Sexy? This Guy Thinks So

  My husband was very supportive of me nursing our five kids - as long as he didn't have to watch too closely.  Whenever I said anything like, "Look, honey!  When I remove the pad, milk shoots out like a geyser!  I bet I can hit you in the forehead from here!" he immediately fled the premises. So it's curious to me that there are actually men out there who find lactation erotic.   Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 02:29 PM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pumping, violation of privacy, gregory mannino, nursing mothers in the workplace

• A Guy's Take on Why Breastfeeding Isn't That Great (and why it is great) -- Part II

  #4)      Breast Feeding Promotes Jaw Strength. And I don’t mean yours after gritting your teeth at 3 am because you’re up with the baby and your significant other is sleeping soundly. I mean the baby has to work his little jaw harder to get that precious milk, exercises it until he’s got a super jaw. And who doesn’t a toddler that looks like Jay Leno and can chew through steel? Read More... Posted Sep 23 2008, 06:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: breast feeding, formula, pumping, bonding, bottle, anitbodies, le leche league, infant health, vitamins

• 5 Reasons Breast Feeding Isn't That Great (and 5 Reasons Why It Is) Part 1

  #2)      The Psychological Benefits are False. The conventional wisdom was breastfeeding led to a more focused, less hyperactive child adept at forming peer relations. However, an exhaustive study recently proved these assumptions wrong.  Experts and laymen presumed that the constant physical closeness involved with breastfeeding would do all kinds of psychological wonders. Nope. Read More... Posted Sep 16 2008, 06:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: breast feeding, formula, pumping, bonding, bottle, anitbodies, le leche league, infant health, vitamins

• Mint Condition Breastmilk: $200 OBO

  A woman in Iowa took out an ad in the paper in an attempt to sell her breastmilk. I guess she's a prolific producer, and while she now donates her extra mama juice to a local milk bank, she has 100 ounces she can't donate because she pumped it before she went through the screening process. She says she looked at state laws, and can't find anything (other than common sense) that prohibits the sale of breastmilk, so she's putting 100 ounces up for sale for $200 OBO. So has she had any takers? Read More... Posted Nov 02 2007, 02:33 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pumping, soap, lactation, breastmilk, newspaper ad

• Breastfeeding Moms: You're Doing it Wrong

  Well, here's encouraging news!  74% of U.S. moms are breastfeeding their babies!  That's, like, more than ever before (well, if you're only counting since about 1950, that is)!  Except...oh, here's where we get all judgmental: most moms give up far too soon. Even though it's pretty simple. "Pretty simple"? Well, sure, if you're Judgy McJudgerson Nancy Powers, a Wichita, Kansas, pediatrician. Dear Nancy says that it's pretty intense in the first few weeks, but after that, a piece of cake! So you have no excuse! And sorry, these lame excuses won't work: 1. Not enough milk. True = only a small percentage of women actually don't have enough milk.   Read More... Posted Sep 24 2007, 07:34 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: breastfeeding, nursing, pumping, nursiing in public

• Boob Nation: Pumping at Work Sucks

  Like to breastfeed? Think it's the best thing ever?  Enjoy hunkering down in a bathroom stall while balancing machinery on your knees? Have I got an activity for you! Pack up your fridge baggies, your Pump-in-Style, and your nursing shields and head into work for a few hours  (7-10 is best).  While there, take a break every 2-3 hours to excuse yourself to the ladies...whip out your ladies, hook yourself up and voila!  You too can experience the fulfillment of pumping at work. Read More... Posted Aug 25 2007, 01:02 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: breastfeeding, pumping, medela, boob nation, pump in style

• Tips for Traveling Without the Kid While You're Nursing

  My first trip away from my son was essentially the end of breastfeeding him. After 18 months of dedication for both of us and several months winding down toward complete weaning, I got on that plane with great relief met by twinges of sadness knowing that it would probably really be over for good.  For many moms who are still happily breastfeeding, those trips away home might be necessary for work, family obligations or even just sanity. They might also be stressful if the mom is committed to keeping her milk supply up while she's away. Glennia of The Silent "I" has once again stepped in with some practical tips to support breastfeeding moms who are traveling on their own.  Her thorough suggestions for on-the-road pumping to dump or transport back home is so good you'll want to print it off and stow it away in your sporty Medela carry bag as a checklist and pat on the back for all the hard work you're doing for your little one even while you're miles away. Posted May 15 2007, 06:27 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: breastfeeding, the silent "i", glennia campbell, travelling without kids, pumping